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Friday, July 1, 2011

The Acme Relevant University

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I agree. I think Jacobs thinks he is shrewd, but like the coyote, he will destroy himself with his antics.Unfortunately, students, staff and faculty may get their hair burned in the process, but it will grow back.

Anonymous said...

Yes, he has destroyed faculty and staff so much and has reduced them to the position of world class walmart greeters. I hope he his happy that he has destroyed any sense of ownership or personal pride in the work they do. He deserves what he has created.

Anonymous said...

Anyone notice that Olivia Summons is part of the group that advocates an appointed executive to lead county government? Shared governance is just too dang scarey for these people!

Anonymous said...

I think it is clear Jacobs is conducting an experiment - and gambling that enough of the experiments pan out to justify the costs and short term enrollment disruption. In addition to the aforementioned "mega" humanities experiment, there is also an experiment afoot to herd Composition students into a kind of running workshop setting: a single "space" staffed by instructors (no doubt punching time cards) where students enter, work, receive help, based on their own schedule and initiative, not on the instructional model. Obviously, if both the mega classes and composition workshop experiments succeed, large numbers of instructors of all levels will be eliminated or reassigned (all visiting composition instructor positions eliminated, big bunch of lecturer positions eliminated. tenure/track faculty redirected to teaching low level mega courses) with a significant savings one would imagine in salary and benefits and the diminishing of the humanities to a state of UT irrelevancy.