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Saturday, April 16, 2011

Organizational Behavior

For those who wanted a closer look....

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

Did all of you read the unctuous drivel that the Blade wrote about Snake Daddy's great speech?

Anonymous said...

No! Can you provide a link please?

Anonymous said...

see: http://toledoblade.com/Education/2011/04/15/UT-president-says-school-must-adapt-to-changes.html

Anonymous said...

This one is even worse...

http://toledoblade.com/frontpage/2011/04/14/UT-president-promises-revolutionary-changes-to-higher-education.html

Shame on The Blade!

Anonymous said...

Airline Hub Model to be Applied to Ohio Universities

The change to the core (which is coming from the top). The administrators want fewer core classes so they can be BIGGER classes (25 minimum? with so few to choose from the classes will have 50..100..150 students) taught by fewer instructors and taught by tenure/track professors not part timers or lecturers.

Humanities? Columbus wants to create "hubs" like the airlines have. The hub for the humanities will be Bowling Green. They will eliminate all graduate programs in the humanities at UT, which will be the "Solar Panel Fiasco" hub. The Board is behind this - a Board member last year stated this explicitly.

The Union - the biggest reason Columbus/Jacobs wants to do away with the AAUP? they HATE grievance hearings, they HATE being called into court to testify, in fact they HATE having to justify/explain their actions. Jacobs/Columbus wants public workers to be governed by imperial fiat.

Anonymous said...

A university in the clouds. OMJ. Oh My Jacobs! University of Phoenix here we come.

Anonymous said...

Note that the ubiquitous Brown-nosing Primadonna of postmodernism continues to deftly pirouette with the prevailing political winds on campus – never failing to land deftly in the most personally advantageous career position…

Anonymous said...

Re 4/20 2:25 Primadonna:

Indeed.

Our very own Zelig the Human Chameleon.

Anonymous said...

If you check out the latest union newsletter and the info they are digging up on administrative use of PCards you will see another benefit of the proposed legislation: administrators won't be held accountable for their expenditures. If SB5 goes into effect it will be impossible to obtain the information that would hold administrators accountable if they misuse public funds.

Anonymous said...

Speaking of slimy behavior, I tip my cap to AAUP folks who investigated credit card spending by our betters. The crash pad in beautiful and scenic Ypsilanti will make the beginning of a wonderful movie... "The Apartment 2011, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley McLaine!!" But who gets to play Fred McMurray's role? Enquiring minds want to know...

Anonymous said...

Don't get too worked up. There are clinical rotations in Ypsilanti that require students stay there for several weeks. Many students rotate through there. It is likely an apartment that the students use.

Anonymous said...

RE PRIMADONNA AND VARIOUS MIXED METAPHORS INVOLVING SHERLOCK HOLMES AND MARXIST FEMINIST POSTMODERN FOXES GUARDING THE HENHOUSE - PART 1

PROPOSED COST CUTTING MEASURES FOR ALL MARXIST FEMINIST POSTMODERNIST ADMINISTRATORS (MFPA’S) ON CAMPUS:

SINCE WE (RATHER THEY - THE MFPA’S) HAVE LONG DECREED THAT MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL OPPRESSIVE WESTERN CAPITALIST SCIENTIST PATRIARCHAL LOGOCENTRIC EVIL…

…AND MOREOVER, THAT REALITY IS MERELY A RELATIVIST SOCIAL CONSTRUCT…

…THEY (THE MFPA’S) SHOULD NOT MIND AT ALL HAVING THEIR PAYCHECKS CALCULATED IN MULTICULTURAL UNITS OF HOLISTIC POSTMODERN ALTERITY (AS OPPOSED TO THOSE OPPRESSIVE AND “LINEAR” DOLLARS AND CENTS).

…UNLESS OF COURSE THEY (THE MFPA’S AND THEIR COHORTS) HAVE JUST BEEN BLOWING MARXIST FEMINIST POSTMODERN SMOKE ALL THESE YEARS… (HINT – THEY HAVE)

SO, THE QUESTION REMAINS – BY WHAT STRETCH OF THE IMGAGINATION ARE THOSE WHOSE ENTIRE ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXISTENCE HAS BEEN PREDICATED UPON UTTERLY ABSURD AND IRRATIONAL MFP SMOKE AND MIRRORS -- BY WHAT STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION ARE THESE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS AND CAPITLIST-HATING ACADEMICS QUALIFIED TO RESTRUCTURE AND LEAD THE NEW “RELEVANT” UNIVERSITY OF THE 21ST CENTURY?

ANSWER: THEY AREN’T.

HERE’S WHAT’S GOING ON: AMERICAN EDUCATION FROM K-PHD HAS BEEN ROYALLY SCREWED UP SINCE EVERYTHING RELATED TO EDUCATION (AND PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING ELSE) WENT TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET IN THE 60S

THE REMEDY UNTIL NOW HAS BEEN TO THROW ESSENTIALLY LIMITLESS MONEY TO THE TUNE OF HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS INTO THE BOTTOMLESS SINKHOLE OF INCREASINGLY INSANE EDUCATION POLICY – AND TO ASK NO QUESTIONS

…AND TO EXPLOIT STUDENTS (STUDENT ACADEMIC OUTCOMES HAVE LONG BEEN ATROCIOUS, EMPLOYMENT AMONG LIBERAL ARTS GRADUATES ABYSMAL, OUTSTANDING STUDENT LOAN DEBT IS NOW APPROACHING $1 TRILLION – COMPARABLE TO THE U. S. DEBT CURRENTLY OWED TO CHINA ETC. ETC.)

…AND TO EXPLOIT THE LABOR OF ACADEMIC UNTOUCHABLES I.E. NON-TENURE/ADJUNCT FACULTYAND STAFF, GRADUATE TA’S ETC. – ALL THE WHILE IGNORING THE GREATER GOOD OF THE NATION, THE TAXPAYERS, THE STUDENTS AND THE SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES THEMSELVES

WHILE PRODUCING REDUNDANT POLITICIZED STUDIES AND FOSTERING THE PROLIFERATION OF POLITICIZED PSUEDO DISCIPLINES AND PC ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS AND PROGRAMS AND PC SOCIAL TYRANNY AND MEANINGLESS CRAZY TALK AND LEFTIST MFP PROPAGANDA.

ONLY THE ELITE TENURED FACULTY AND UPPER ADMINISTRATORS HAVE PROFITED FROM THIS IDEOLOGICALLY-DRIVEN EDUCATION PONZI SCHEME RACKET

AND ANYBODY WHO HAS DARED QUESTION THE STATUS QUO WAS PROMPTLY INFORMED THEY COULD STICK THEIR “FASCIST” QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS WHERE THE SUN DON’T SHINE

THE ONLY REAL COMPLAINTS EVER HEARD FROM EDUCATORS WAS – THERE STILL ISN’T ENOUGH MONEY

BUT NOW WE HAVE FINALLY KILLED THE GOOSE (THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER) THAT SO GENEROUSLY LAID SO MANY GOLDEN EGGS FOR SO MANY YEARS

NOW SOME “HARD CHOICES” NEED TO BE MADE. WHAT TO DO… WHAT TO DO…

HOW ABOUT APPOINT AN ELITE HAND-PICKED GROUP OF SOME OF THE MOST RELIABLE INSIDER MARXIST FEMINIST POSTMODERNIST FACULTY FOXES – YOU KNOW, THE ONES WHO HAVE BEEN RAVAGING THE HENHOUSE FOR DECADES AND TELLING THE REST OF US EVERYTHING WAS WONDERFUL AND TO MIND OUR OWN DAMNED BUSINESS YEAH. THEM.

APPOINT THE ELITE GROUP OF TENURED FACULTY MFP FOXES TO UPPER ADMINISTRATOR POSITIONS - DOUBLE OR TRIPLE THEIR SALARIES – PUT THEM IN CHARGE OF REINVENTING THE WHEEL OF THE “NEW AND IMPROVED” ACADEMIC HENHOUSE – AND THEN PUT THEM IN CHARGE OF GUARDING THE “NEW AND IMPROVED” HENHOUSE OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Anonymous said...

RE PRIMADONNA ETC. PART 2

HOLMES AND WATSON SURVEY THE DEVASTATION...

...SOUNDS LIKE ANOTHER FINE STRATEGIC PLAN WE’VE GOTTEN OURSELVES INTO, WATSON.

BUT WHO IS IN CHARGE OF DRAFTING THIS “NEW AND IMPROVED” STRATEGIC PLAN, HOLMES? PRAY TELL IT ISN’T THE NEFARIOUS DR. MORIARITY??

WORSE, WATSON. MUCH, MUCH WORSE THAN THAT I FEAR.

GOOD GOD, HOLMES! YOU DON’T MEAN…

YES, WATSON. I’M AFRAID SO MY GOOD MAN. THEY HAVE SIMPLY APPOINTED MORE MFPA FACULTY FOXES TO DO THEIR DASTERDLY DIRTY WORK…

(CUT TO BLEAK FOG-BOUND MOORS AND CUE MOURNFUL BAYING HOUNDS OF THE BASKERVILLES)

Anonymous said...

At 5:42... please take your facts someplace else. That's not part of the narrative.

Anonymous said...

@3:01 -- "There are clinical rotations in Ypsilanti..." may be a fact. "It is likely an apartment that the students use" is mere speculation.

Anonymous said...

I don't claim to have facts. Merely plausible speculation. There is enough dirt in the water to focus on. We do not need to get overly heated about something that may have a reasonable explanation.

If you want to complain about the clinical enterprise, we should be concerned that we are farming out our teaching to other institutions so that our clinical faculty can teach less and see more patients. That was Jacobs strategy from the beginning. We don't need teachers at a Medical College. We need "earners." Anyone can teach.

That is what I would focus on. Not the apartments (if my speculation is accurate) that our students need when they have to go out to find teachers.

signed Anon 5:42

Anonymous said...

Ok, that explains it.

Can UT pay for other students' living expenses too?

Why are they in Ypsi and not Toledo?

If you think any facts are getting in the way of the narrative of spendthrift administrators feathering their own nests, you're wrong.

And if the narrative is that things were going along pretty well at UT until MCO glommed onto us, I haven't seen any counterexamples yet.