tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post596652716377854927..comments2023-08-13T06:56:50.760-07:00Comments on Arts & Sciences College Forum: Board ResolutionDavid Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12126067283016390050noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-20033086671623088342011-02-28T06:03:14.571-08:002011-02-28T06:03:14.571-08:00There is no getting around: while the recent reor...There is no getting around: while the recent reorganization has INCREASED the number of administrators and their minions, the cost cutting plans will DECREASE the number of faculty and departments/ programs (if the admin can ever figure out which is which). There will also be fewer students.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-39216444820753843792011-02-28T05:55:28.597-08:002011-02-28T05:55:28.597-08:00Hoping for some clarification - one of the "A...Hoping for some clarification - one of the "Anonymous" postings referred to "plagiarists" (plural) and "deadwood."<br /><br />What plagiarists (S) are being referred to? I follow the Union actions carefully (to see where my dues go) and I don't recall seeing a plagiarism case go to arbitration in recent memory. And I have not heard about any grievances on this recently either.<br /><br />As far as "deadwood" making 100k. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the fast majority of professors who end up making outrageous salaries do so because they had administrative positions and were then put back into the teaching faculty? I think we recently had one or two "failed" presidents who were punished by being placed back into the faculty with their former salaires and many departments have professors who have salaries 1/2 as much or more higher than their peers because they did stints as Provosts, Deans, etc.<br /><br />That's the corporate model at work, a university golden parachute as it were.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-73031633624921437392011-02-27T13:20:49.008-08:002011-02-27T13:20:49.008-08:00I hardly agree that Jacob's will and Kasich...I hardly agree that Jacob's will and Kasich's will or the state senate are fulfilling the will of the people. 61% of the state is against what they are trying to do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-20267576196871957592011-02-27T11:45:13.482-08:002011-02-27T11:45:13.482-08:00Anon 2/26, 6:41--They've also been very succes...Anon 2/26, 6:41--They've also been very successful at "divide and conquer," in breaking up A&S. We used to be able to work together to save ourselves--now it's each mini-college for itself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-50521429455865844702011-02-27T11:24:45.150-08:002011-02-27T11:24:45.150-08:00Who are these lazy, political, whining professors?...Who are these lazy, political, whining professors? And are there no lazy, political, whining administrators? How do we trim the deadwood in the administrative levels where there are no unions? Did everyone who got a bonus in December truly do such outstanding work that he/she deserved a bonus? The economy didn't disintegrate because of unions: it disintegrated because of corporate greed and lack of regulation of corporations such as Lehman brothers, for which our governor worked.<br /><br />As for the comment about a watered-down education being the desire of the unionized faculty: take a good, long look at who is proposing the watered-down curriculum. It is NOT faculty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-43285783783097125422011-02-27T10:29:16.825-08:002011-02-27T10:29:16.825-08:00The fundamental nature of Jacobs' bullying can...The fundamental nature of Jacobs' bullying can easily be seen here. To get us to take on ONE extra course he wants the Board to bloviate regarding a 5-5 load. Why? Either he wants to protect us from Columbus politicos who really do want us to teach 15 hrs a semester--ha! Or he wants us to know that he really does have the Power to turn us into community college faculty. OK, so Jacobs is a bully.<br /><br />But the counter-bloviation is hardly any more persuasive. Face it, public employee unions are fundamentally anti-democratic. Their whole reason for being is to thwart the will of the people--because it's their representatives on the other side of the bargaining table. Our union protects plagiarists and flattens out the pay structure to encourage scholars to leave and deadwood to stay so they can soak up a nice six figure pension when they finally get around to officially retiring. The faculty it represents wants to provide a watered down "education" that will trouble them as little as possible, and that is politicized as much as possible. It is completely believable that the average Ohio voter really does want the universities to be reined in.<br /><br />Unfortunately the blunt instrument they've indirectly chosen to do it is the thug Jacobs. But in the battle between thugs and lazy, political, whining professors, it's really hard to pick a side.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-5400510843257704292011-02-27T06:32:02.959-08:002011-02-27T06:32:02.959-08:00But the situation has markedly changed today as bu...But the situation has markedly changed today as business and for profit sharks continue to push for the privatization and businessification of higher education. If we were being run by impartial and fair bureaucrats whose common goal is to keep the ship afloat and steady for the tax payers I would not feel the need for a union. However, these days we are run by rapacious and greedy leaders whose goals are filling their own pockets and those of their friends by whatever means possible, whether it be by slaughtering the sheep of collective bargaining or whatever. The board and the administration is a revolving door for business men who line their own pockets not comitted civil servants. I say hell yeah, we need strong unions really bad.<br /><br />Besides, AAUP, CWA and AFSCME have been about the most docile unions ever. I cannot remember any strike ever occurring and usually they just roll over and do what the administration wants.<br /><br />By the way, I'll bet plenty of the unclassified and PSA people think SB5 has nothing to do with them. Won't they be surprised when thei PERS contributions double and their health insurance goes up by 33% because there are no unions to set the baseline!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-22645205736233164512011-02-26T16:58:06.349-08:002011-02-26T16:58:06.349-08:00And follow it with these:
"In terms of accep...And follow it with these:<br /><br />"In terms of accepted collective bargaining procedures, government workers have no right beyond the authority to petition Congress — a right available to every citizen."<br />--AFL-CIO exec council, 1959<br /><br />"Meticulous attention should be paid to the special relationships and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the government. All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service....The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives....<br /><br />"Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of government employees. Upon employees in the federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people....This obligation is paramount....A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent....to prevent or obstruct...Government....Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government...is unthinkable and intolerable."<br /><br />--FDR, 1937Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-61615745928203343772011-02-26T11:53:17.921-08:002011-02-26T11:53:17.921-08:00I think you should put this up on the front page:
...I think you should put this up on the front page:<br /><br />"These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland ... They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost."<br /><br />—RONALD REAGAN, Labor Day Address at Liberty State Park, 1980.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-55475796961097837442011-02-26T06:41:21.541-08:002011-02-26T06:41:21.541-08:00The Jacob administration's strategy has been t...The Jacob administration's strategy has been this: cause an uproar, then back off and appear to compromise. The Jacob administration wants faculty teaching 3/3. Floating the 5/5 will make it appear that a 3/3 is a huge compromise on the part of the administration. This is part of their strategy for negotiating the next contract. Now that we have the 5/5 horror planted in all of our heads, we will sigh and be thankful when the admin agrees to something less. It's all a head game, which they are very good at.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-3787045861208783392011-02-26T06:35:25.457-08:002011-02-26T06:35:25.457-08:00And any increase in workload will be applied dispr...And any increase in workload will be applied disproportionally. It will have minimal effect or none on the hospital and professors in the fields the administration considers first-tier. Professors working in disciplines considered service disciplines will be hit the hardest (I can't imagine anyone wanting to come to UT if the teaching load is advertised as 5/5). And in this nightmarish scenario new hires, who thought they were entering a research position, will either find their teaching loads bumped up during their probationary periods or after, if they make tenure. And, just imagine professors who have teen teaching 3/2 loads for 20 years trying to cope with 4/4 or 5/5. But one unanswered question: who will be let go if professors have their teaching loads increased so dramatically? The university is covering all its classes under the current system, so if professors have their teaching increased then who gets the axe? are there that many part timers? Does this plan eliminate all or most of the visiting professor and part timer positions or does it go beyond that and impact lecturers?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-45475599370986229282011-02-26T05:44:23.198-08:002011-02-26T05:44:23.198-08:00So, as it stands SB5 means I will now have to pay ...So, as it stands SB5 means I will now have to pay the 14.5% that the state pays for my pension on top of the 9.5% I pay. My share of health insurance will go up 33%. I will lose my rights to bargain over sick leave, working conditions, safety, seniority, overtime, and any job protection I might otherwise have had....<br /><br />Why don't they just put chains around our necks and ankles?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-13610186242462021992011-02-25T15:06:04.150-08:002011-02-25T15:06:04.150-08:00I have been here 25 years and because of the going...I have been here 25 years and because of the goings on of Jacobs & Co. and now our new governor I am sending out resumes as fast as I can. Good bye Ohio!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-27365278765943723582011-02-25T10:36:03.156-08:002011-02-25T10:36:03.156-08:00http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/state-and-re...http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/state-and-regional/article_456cd18c-40a0-11e0-89f3-001cc4c03286.html // UW-Lacrosse faculty voted to unionize, in spite of everything going on in Wisconsin. And look, their chancellor openly supports it. In my third year at UT, I'm forgetting what it's like to have administrators who make common cause with faculty.some guynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-22508076580768601922011-02-24T13:05:31.346-08:002011-02-24T13:05:31.346-08:00http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110224/NEWS01...http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110224/NEWS0102/302240049/1196/ENT03/Kasich-touts-charter-universities-?odyssey=nav|headAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-63869641069589832902011-02-22T08:49:23.176-08:002011-02-22T08:49:23.176-08:00I called the 888 number in the recent notice from ...I called the 888 number in the recent notice from AAUP. I found it better to go here:<br /><br />http://www.ohiosenate.gov/<br /><br />and get the phone number and/or the email address for your senator. (The 888 number eventually got me to a state representative's office, who isn't involved in this, but they gave me the name and number of my state senator.)yo, duh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/04379171973281926037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-6261135298760131072011-02-21T14:17:39.767-08:002011-02-21T14:17:39.767-08:00Recommended viewing; "The Salt of the Earth,&...Recommended viewing; "The Salt of the Earth," from the mid-50s. Actors, writers, and others were blacklisted under the McCarthy inquisitions; I think the film itself was banned or blacklisted as well. Still fitting after all these years.yo, duh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/04379171973281926037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-69011099919877155712011-02-20T12:16:32.161-08:002011-02-20T12:16:32.161-08:00On Monday, Feb. 21, 2011, at 7pm, there will be a ...On Monday, Feb. 21, 2011, at 7pm, there will be a town hall forum to discuss Senate Bill 5. Let our elected representatives Matt Szollosi, Teresa Fedor, Michael Ashford and Senator Edna Brown know what you think about this bill. Location: 2020 Alexis Road, Toledo, Ohio.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-27224386297978111922011-02-20T12:15:39.395-08:002011-02-20T12:15:39.395-08:00Curious RW&B, what a great idea! I have been t...Curious RW&B, what a great idea! I have been thinking on this kind of thing myself: We know where most of the problems are, and mostly who's behind them--on both the local UT level and the broader, statewide level. My question is--and I ask this not in a whiny, resigned, hand-wringing voice but with my we-cannot-give-up, we-cannot-give-in voice: What can we do? There must be something! I just don't know what it is. If anyone knows, please post! I know many of us are scared (retribution, etc.)--and I'm as scared as anyone (and more than most, I think), but at some point ww have to stand together against the tyranny and non-benevolent despotism of the Jacobs-BOT and anti-union regimes--for our own sakes, of course, but also for the future of UT and of its students.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-17974382251637099182011-02-20T11:51:44.882-08:002011-02-20T11:51:44.882-08:00Let me rephrase the question rightfully asked by A...Let me rephrase the question rightfully asked by Anon 7:38 and put it in another light: Why would any capable prospective student want to come to the University of Toledo under these conditions? What kind of education can we offer them?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-43656495475426762362011-02-20T11:46:17.739-08:002011-02-20T11:46:17.739-08:00I think it is time that we all re-read the documen...I think it is time that we all re-read the documentation on the Pullman strike that began in 1894. Perhaps bloggie would like to facilitate that reading and discussion? Here's a place to start: http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/pullman/primary.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-11381406280337646072011-02-20T11:13:55.205-08:002011-02-20T11:13:55.205-08:00Readers, The Tuesday Feb 22meeting in Columbus -...Readers, The Tuesday Feb 22meeting in Columbus -rally against SB 5 - is at 1pm at the Statehouse, 1 Capitol Square. Be there if you can. Democracy is not a spectator sport. There is also a local meeting tomorrow according to the UT-AAUP facebook site.<br /><br />Monday Feb.21: Meeting Schedule against Senate Bill 5Speakers<br />State Representative Matthew A. Szollosi, Senator Edna Brown, Ohio <br />House of Representatives Teresa Fedor and Michael AshfordWhen: Monday Feb.21, 20011 Time: 7pm.Where: Conn- Weissenberger American Legion Post2020 West Alexis RoadToledo, Oh.43613Upstairs room,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-82688600745464367152011-02-20T09:04:07.550-08:002011-02-20T09:04:07.550-08:00I hear there is supposed to a protest in Columbus ...I hear there is supposed to a protest in Columbus this Tuesday concerning the "No Collective Bargaining" legislative bill that has been introduced. <br /><br />Does anyone know the particulars in case anyone wants to attend?Curious Red, White and Bluenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-65698063792048123612011-02-19T07:38:36.161-08:002011-02-19T07:38:36.161-08:00It is quite clear that the Board of Trustees do no...It is quite clear that the Board of Trustees do not value the quality of education given to the students. How does this move the University of Toledo from the 4th tier of the USWNR rankings? Why would any capable prospective professor want to come to the University of Toledo under these conditions?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-37395866029632121372011-02-18T07:33:39.650-08:002011-02-18T07:33:39.650-08:00The Board argues that specific Ohio Revised Code s...The Board argues that specific Ohio Revised Code sections supersede any union contract and that even if the board went against the ORC and agreed with the AAUP to insert a given provision, that contract provision can be made void because the board wasn't really allowed to grant that provision in the first place.<br /><br />That's their argument.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com