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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Just a few questions

While I hate to interrupt anything as intellectual as the art show Mr. Bloggie is running, I do have a few questions about the reorganization. We've just heard that a little over 7 million is going to disappear from this year's budget. Given that 2012 is supposed to resemble the great depression, I have a few questions. First, why reorganize and add bureaucrats who don't teach? It all sounds rather costly to me. Second, think of the expense for new stationary. There will be new stuff for the various colleges, schools, programs and departments. Third, how does any of this help our students? As you all know I hate to be the wet blanket at the party, but this is beginning to sound just a touch expensive at a time when we supposedly have a shrinking pool of cash. Finally, there is the law of unintended consequences. In any reorganization there will be unintended expenses. We have no real idea if this will increase the number of students, the quality of the faculty, and outside funding. Or, it might just confuse prospective students.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Being on the HSC we have changed names several times since Jake arrived. We were MCO then he wanted to be a University not a College. So we changed and became MUO. Then we became the University of Toledo. We changed signs, stationery, badges, logos. This is what he is good at. I keep asking "who does this guy know in the stationery business?"

Not even mentioning the additional administrators, Jake's desire to put his stamp on this university is very very costly....

Cool artwork by the way.

Anonymous said...

Why worry about the money? Didn't the President say at the Faculty Senate Meeting we have plenty of money, $600 million or so?

Anonymous said...

Keep the troops busy and in a state of constant flux so no one has time to stop and think about what is going on...keep everyone constantly off balance.

Anonymous said...

Do any of the leadership see that there is a HUGE contradiction in what they are doing? That is usurping power unilaterally, arbitrarily imposing restructuring from above, quashing dissent and discussion, demanding conformity....all in the name of encouraging creativity, spontaneity, innovation, communication, and interdependence?

Anonymous said...

Now that Jake is stepping down we should begin discussing specific ways to control and reverse all the little engines that could not that he set into motion. Lets begin with the do-able: reinstitute the trays in the cafeteria so students can again get a square meal in a timely manner without having to stand in line three times; fire the sadistic, sociopathetic purchasing agent who probably got a raise for bringing in the low bid on toilet paper (it is 1/4-ply and it won't even stick to a heel); put another elevator in the field house so whenever the present one breaks down the old, disabled and obese don't have to miss classes during the three or four days it takes to repair the present one (which, since its is paid for, will now break down every week); hire the Lott Industries trash squads back (they arrived, worked and departed before classes started every day, and the parking lots were spotless instead of the plains of putridity they have lately become); ... stay tuned because I have a long list ...