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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Slides From Committee on Strategic Organization

Just what we need, more deans and unqualified "leaders"...


















14 comments:

Anonymous said...

When can we take a vote to censure the authors (with the exception of tenure-track faculty) of this document? Chairs and deans should expect votes of no confidence.

Anonymous said...

This MUST be a joke! I don't think anyone can come up with this crap for real. Please, tell me it's a joke!

Anonymous said...

Why wouldn't you censure the tenure-track faculty too?

Anonymous said...

Kids in a sandlot build better structures than this!

Is there anyway I can check out of this? This is a disaster in the making.

Anonymous said...

Questions:

1. Does this mean departments will be de facto abolished?

2. Does this mean department chairs will no longer be in charge of assigning classes, etc.?

3. Does this mean department faculties will lose their ability to self-govern?

4. What does this mean for the various unions of teachers (esp. the tenure-track and the lecturer bargaining units)?

5. Why is all of this being decided during the summer?

6. Why aren't we getting communication about this, if the process is transparent, etc.?

7. What the hell is a College for the Study of the Human Condition? Won't people at other universities laugh at this kind of terminology?

8. If all these layers of administration are being added, what will all these people do, besides go to meetings? Will they all be paid well into the six figures, like current administrators are? If so, where does that money come from (i.e., who gets laid off, or which program gets cut, to pay for it)?

9. It seems like all the positivity talk is meant to be comforting, but I have to say that I have an ulcer from worry about the loss of my job, and I bet I'm not the only one. I feel like the administration is playing dice with my livelihood, and I don't really know what I'll do to provide for my family if somehow UT kicks me to the curb in an economy as bad as this one. Perhaps the administration doesn't worry matters like these, but I worry them every day.

Anonymous said...

How is this strategic at this time?

By the words of the CFO: "we face a $20-$40 million FY2012 budget shortfall."

By the words of our President at the most recent Board of Trustees Meeting: "to meet this, we will need to make significant program reductions."

This plan adds two layers of bureaucracy!

Anonymous said...

I expect this was written by Lloyd Jacobs before they first meeting of the gang of 12. It was the answer to the question he charged the committee to confirm. He lives by the motto: Never ask a question (of a committee) that you (or they) don't already know the answer to. If you can come up with a structure like this in about one month, the work must have already been done.

The administrative line will be: the recommendation of the "faculty committee" is....

Anonymous said...

The entire university? except for Dr. Gold's medical school of course....

Anonymous said...

Looks like the ladies got paid by the buzzword.

I would bet a lotta dough that anon 6:55am is exactly right.

Anonymous said...

I do think the "house of cards" graphic is particularly relevant.

Anonymous said...

I think the "house of cards" is entirely relevant! This plan is a house of cards and lacks a foundation.

Anonymous said...

I think I have found the answer to this nonsense:

Either Dr. Jacobs or the Board of Trustees has a big family and needs jobs or Dr. Jacobs still has Medical School cronies to pay off with high paying positions!

Anonymous said...

So is the word on the street true? Will I be a student of The Larry Burns Perpetual Motion College of Sexuality and Sustainability when I return to UT this fall?

I can't wait to be a newly minted SS gradute!

Anonymous said...

College of the Study for the Human Condition Blog? Perhaps these changes are designed to confuse readers of this forum. If they change the names of the schools, who will look for the Arts and Sciences Forum? I smell a rat. Someone check to see if the domain name for CSHCforum is taken. :)