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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Confusion

Okay, so I'm a little confused. It's probably because I'm not an associate administrator of some type or I would see the light. We've been told the new plan won't add administrators. So who are all those extra deans? We've been told it will not increase costs. So, they're going to work for free? Wow. I guess we really are working toward being number one in administrative bloat. What a goal.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Didn't I see you at the Glenn Beck rally?

Anonymous said...

Let's picket outside Jamie barlowe's house.

Anonymous said...

I think we are also working towards being number 1 in lies told by our administration.

Anonymous said...

Why picket Barlowe's house?

Was she the chairman of the CSO Gang of 12?

Anonymous said...

Another example that makes me think our leaders are dragging us in circles. Saw today in utnews that there is a new College of Adult and Life-Long Learning or something to that effect...reminds me of the old College of Continuing Education that one of the previous administrations dismantled. Not that it's a bad idea, but did the current administration look back and to see why it failed? Did they even know it existed? This lack of knowledge and respect regarding institutional history is unforgiveable and will be the cause of much more waste of time and money....but then again whether it is creating or destroying a college, that's the bread and butter of administrators so they indeed must simply keep stirring the pot or they are out of a job.

Anonymous said...

I real concrete, outward sign of protest and disgust is needed to show all( faculty, staff and students} at UT how offensive this all is!

Anonymous said...

"But Hacker and Dreifus go much further, all but calling for an end to the role of universities in the production of knowledge. Spin off the med schools and research institutes, they say. University presidents “should be musing about education, not angling for another center on antiterrorist technologies.” As for the humanities, let professors do research after-hours, on top of much heavier teaching schedules."

New York Times Essay, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/books/review/Shea-t.html?_r=1

Anonymous said...

This week's New York Times Essay is

The End of Tenure, By CHRISTOPHER SHEA Published: September 3, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/books/review/Shea-t.html?_r=1

It is an interesting read!

Anonymous said...

It is, though this essay isn't written with UT in mind. No doubt to the author, UT is one of the colleges being gutted. I'm again concerned that this essay, and indeed the authors referenced, continue to think of "administrators" as anyone who doesn't teach.

Also, I guess I'm surprised with citations to this essay and the previous study, that so many of my colleagues are so quick to embrace the far right's view of what higher education should look like.

Anonymous said...

I agree with # 3. The administration lied and said enrollment is flat when it clearly dropped 9.5 percent. Flat enrollment? Just another administrative lie.

Anonymous said...

Bloggie, can't you please not approve comments like the last one that assert a falsehood just to make this blog look bad? It's clearly someone trying to discredit this blog saying enrollment is down. We get it. One poster said it was down, he/she was wrong.