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Friday, September 24, 2010

Slides From Arts and Sciences College Death Announcement on 9/24

















 

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Shared Governance at UT is dead.

Anonymous said...

Jeez, just what we need: more administration. Why don't they just turn us all into administrators?

Anonymous said...

Decreasing clarity, certainty indeed!

horns n' fins said...
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horns n' fins said...

I think Bloggie's posting of the screenshot version prompted the quick posting of the prettier version of the PowerPoint that includes the introductory slides at http://www.utoledo.edu/strategicplan/strategicorg/pdfs/recommendedorgstructure.pdf

Anonymous said...

It was broadcast live and an email was sent to the campus providing the address and your argument is they were trying to hide it?

Anonymous said...

It's interesting that the 8th slide shows IEEE as a department even though the name was changed to Environmental Sciences a year or more ago. (On the other hand, the pdf file sent out by the University News shows the correct name.) Could this be an indication that this slide was prepared several years ago?

horns n' fins said...

Anon 1:38 If you're responding to my post -- I wasn't implying that they were hiding this, just that there has usually been some lag in posting PowerPoints, videos, etc on the Strat Planning site and this particular one was posted very quickly. I just guessed they were perhaps more motivated to put it up quickly so people would get the information from their site instead of this Blog.

Anonymous said...

Another great leap backward, Health Science and Human Services was split off from Education years ago in the name of efficiency and advancement. UT reminds me of a patient who is on a starvation, diet, overmedicated, and forced to run on a treadmill with the reasoning that that will "make he/she better." We have been and are being restructured to death!

Anonymous said...

Staff don't even appear on the list, not even under faculty, disenfranchised as they are. It is because staff are the toilet paper that the administration wipes themselves with and then flushes down the toilet without an afterthought...just like the rest of the nation. What a terrible, sorry, horrible place UT and this nation has become...

Anonymous said...

Slide 11 is incorrect: Tenure is not with the Department but with the University. This is a very important distinction!

Anonymous said...

Interesting that President Jacobs is now considering recruiting from within. I wonder how many people from the Committee on Strategic Organization will be rewarded, I mean, recruited. There are already 7 new schools to be formed. How many Directors of Schools will come from the CSO? There will be 3 new Deans under the Vice Provost of Arts and Sciences. I wonder who will be recruited for these positions? These positions alone already mean lots more money spent on administration instead of money spent on faculty and students. Will these new positions mean new staff positions or will staff be "borrowed" from existing positions?
Universities are now expected to drive the local and regional economies. This university is certainly driving the administrative economy...up and up, at everyone else's expense.

Anonymous said...

To anonymous 6:31

Thank you for emphasizing this distinction. The review of departments and programs that will follow restructuring will certainly be a strategy for reducing tenured faculty and implementing political and personal agendas. Will we get the same level of documentation recommending program eliminations, departmental mergers as we received for the restructuring?

Anonymous said...

Jacobs, or whoever designed his slides for him, is unaware of the correct name of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. I'm sure the astronomers think his alternative name is pretty cool, but it's not correct.

sir lawrence said...

A6:36: actually, since the days of sir arthur eddington, edwin hubble, and cecilia payne-gaposchkin, astronomers have thought of themselves as fundamental physicists. so, we are perfectly happy to be in a department of physics and astronomy. it is pretty cute, though... and may represent a fundamental misunderstanding of our discipline by both our president and the C12.