tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post8683996078157080353..comments2023-08-13T06:56:50.760-07:00Comments on Arts & Sciences College Forum: Merge!David Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12126067283016390050noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-37624552657189858812016-03-26T10:55:10.673-07:002016-03-26T10:55:10.673-07:00To Anon 7:57
To Anon 7:57 AM
"Improved remed...To Anon 7:57<br />To Anon 7:57 AM<br /><br />"Improved remediation, enhanced retention efforts, improved advising while understanding our students backgrounds and aspirations IS NOT EXCLUSIVE with the Mission Statement. I would argue that it fits right in with the "excellence in learning" clause as well as "student-centered public metropolitan research university" clause.<br /><br />If the faculty doesn't see that, if the faculty can't buy in to that, and if the faculty can't live that, then this institution is in trouble and very little else matters.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-2288234512350699622016-03-26T08:16:21.367-07:002016-03-26T08:16:21.367-07:00Is UT the last open admissions state university in...Is UT the last open admissions state university in Ohio?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-44471049498643788032016-03-26T07:57:58.040-07:002016-03-26T07:57:58.040-07:00In response to Anonymous 12:09 PM
Which institut...In response to Anonymous 12:09 PM <br /><br />Which institutional mission best deserves the investment of scarce state higher education tax dollars?<br /><br />1)The mission of The University of Toledo is to improve the human condition; to advance knowledge through excellence in learning, discovery and engagement; and to serve as a diverse, student-centered public metropolitan research university.<br /><br />2)The mission of the University of Toledo is to offer improved remediation, to work to enhance retention, to offer improved advising, and to understanding our students' backgrounds and aspirations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-3732314604479965562016-03-25T12:18:40.244-07:002016-03-25T12:18:40.244-07:00The Day the Purpose of College Changed
The Chronic...The Day the Purpose of College Changed<br />The Chronicle of Higher Education <br />26 January 2015<br /><br />http://chronicle.com/article/The-Day-the-Purpose-of-College/151359/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-48755537237639278782016-03-25T12:09:40.229-07:002016-03-25T12:09:40.229-07:00To Anon 9:21
Offering improved remediation, worki...To Anon 9:21<br /><br />Offering improved remediation, working to enhance retention, offering improved advising, and understanding our students' background and aspiration while making FL optional IS NOT embracing a business model or diploma mill operation. <br /><br />-Anon 11:13Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-5565852525361146652016-03-25T10:30:13.214-07:002016-03-25T10:30:13.214-07:00If the only purpose of a college education is gett...If the only purpose of a college education is getting a job, then we need to eliminate most of the courses in our university catalogue, since APPARENTLY studying art history, jazz, public speaking, philosophy, history, chemistry, sociology, psychology, will not appear in the job requirements for most of our students. What you and many employers do not understand is that the student who has some in experience in any of these disciplines can take a broader view of things, make better decisions, articulate the issues better, and so forth. As for the foreign language requirement, why would any good communications program want to send its students into the job market without a fundamental ability to understand global, cultural issues, and without the ability to even comprehend basic news articles in at least one foreign language? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-21021814009043501812016-03-25T09:21:22.448-07:002016-03-25T09:21:22.448-07:00Anonymous 11:13. Your arguments justify the logic ...Anonymous 11:13. Your arguments justify the logic and appeal of every degree mill ever cooked up. You cut to the chase to reveal why the business model is the chosen model for any public and private institute of higher education that reduces its societal role to churning out cheap labor rather than educating a responsible citizenry who have earned their degrees and aspire to meaningful careers where intelligence is rewarded with excellent prospects for high pay and promotions. I appreciate your candor but despise your promotion of anti-intellectualism and betrayal of academia in America.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-13865792303267976482016-03-24T23:13:29.459-07:002016-03-24T23:13:29.459-07:00To ANON 6:20 AM
I completely agree that a FL is b...To ANON 6:20 AM<br /><br />I completely agree that a FL is beneficial to students. You are also correct in saying that if the students took FL in HS this would be less of an issue. The fact is that many of our students haven't. You have to understand our students. Many, if not most, are the first in their families to go to college. Many, if not most, graduated from middle of the road high schools. They come from working class backgrounds who struggle financially to afford even UT. These students are here for job training. They don't care about getting an education. Most don't care about being enlightened, they want to get in, get out and get a job. We have to serve the students we have, not the students we wish we had. UT is not Harvard. We are a metropolitan University serving the needs of our community. As it should be.<br /><br />This doesn't mean we should lower our standards, but it does mean we need to offer more remediation than any of us would like, enhanced retention efforts, and top notch advising. For many of our students FL does not aid them in their primary goal of getting a job. <br /><br />I think we all need to take a look at the demographics, backgrounds, and aspiration of our students along with the resources they have. Adjusted for inflation, higher education costs have more doubled in the past generation. Few of our students can afford to take a romantic, intellectual view of their time here (and that is a damn shame). They are much more practical and goal oriented. <br /><br />FL should be offered, and highly encouraged, and better promoted, but it should not be required.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-53886092549039782492016-03-24T12:50:13.233-07:002016-03-24T12:50:13.233-07:00Let's form the new college first, then work on...Let's form the new college first, then work on curricular matters as a whole faculty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-73149301854630373232016-03-24T06:20:57.057-07:002016-03-24T06:20:57.057-07:00If college bound students in high school took a FL...If college bound students in high school took a FL, which they should all be advised to do (top academic high schools make it a requirement), than they should not struggle with FL while at UT. They do not need be be experts but should be able to complete the requirement. The core of the problem is UT staying with an open enrollment policy, while the decline in public high school education with FL just like math and writing graduating unprepared college students. And for all those changing to criminal justice, good luck getting decent jobs. I find it stunning that communication faculty actually fail to understand the value of a second language, especially Spanish, in a job market for their graduates that is dropping fast and how a 2nd language would be such a benefit, and much the same could be said for many Arts majors as well. Why limit your already limited potential job and future careers, instead expand with a 2nd language?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-20698985949572673272016-03-24T05:58:48.513-07:002016-03-24T05:58:48.513-07:00It is up to COCA undergraduate advisors to articul...It is up to COCA undergraduate advisors to articulate clearly why a mandatory foreign language serves to enrich their student learning experience while enhancing their self-esteem and career prospects. Assuming that COCA students will flee their academic challenges rather than face up to them is bad attitude. Please do not enable COCA students to become slackers and whiners and then consider yourself a teacher. To encourage their worst tendencies does them no favors, and is not going to increase the academic reputation of COCA and the University of Toledo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-86903253516986675402016-03-24T05:50:38.457-07:002016-03-24T05:50:38.457-07:00Saw it all the time as an adviser: Students strugg...Saw it all the time as an adviser: Students struggled with FL and then changed their major to criminal justice. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-82800382843448727892016-03-23T15:57:12.114-07:002016-03-23T15:57:12.114-07:00This non-COCA rep will stand with COCA colleagues ...This non-COCA rep will stand with COCA colleagues to vote against the FL requirement. The social sciences faculty need to work against rules that push people to business, criminal justice and social work. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-44658624367281585912016-03-23T13:55:06.516-07:002016-03-23T13:55:06.516-07:00And what do any of the department's who object...And what do any of the department's who object to the FL requirement intend to do when the college council takes up curriculum and decides that all departments in the new college will require a FL? Comm and the former COCA departments will be a minority at college council.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-66610028045671638412016-03-23T06:41:49.413-07:002016-03-23T06:41:49.413-07:00CLLS and COCA to merge into new college with 11 de...CLLS and COCA to merge into new college with 11 departments, current CLLS and Communication, plus a School of the Arts, decision has been made, look for letter to faculty from President soonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-68471703814706594902016-03-23T05:35:49.203-07:002016-03-23T05:35:49.203-07:00merger done dealmerger done dealAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-72515503907825362342016-03-20T14:44:17.765-07:002016-03-20T14:44:17.765-07:00I interpret this as the change in climate, a sense...I interpret this as the change in climate, a sense of hope that UT will once again be an institution of higher learning, rather than an institution of higher earning for Jacobs' cronies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-47322281995673339312016-03-20T12:44:14.350-07:002016-03-20T12:44:14.350-07:00"Momentum" may exist in all directions."Momentum" may exist in all directions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-91265389354116096202016-03-20T08:43:31.351-07:002016-03-20T08:43:31.351-07:00Can someone explain "the momentum" of th...<br />Can someone explain "the momentum" of the Gaber administration that Dr. Hsu referred to in his quote?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-89544787982747061332016-03-18T20:07:35.784-07:002016-03-18T20:07:35.784-07:00Scarborough Watch: http://www.cleveland.com/metro/...Scarborough Watch: http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/03/former_head_of_university_of_akron_press_sues_college_for_defamation.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-52530848340446857292016-03-18T08:52:25.967-07:002016-03-18T08:52:25.967-07:00Just what we need more stem gearheads.Just what we need more stem gearheads.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-44392475792689977732016-03-18T05:32:00.038-07:002016-03-18T05:32:00.038-07:00Why wasn't Barrett considered?Why wasn't Barrett considered?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-6452088031076472032016-03-17T10:11:26.838-07:002016-03-17T10:11:26.838-07:00UT names San Jose State dean as its next provost
...UT names San Jose State dean as its next provost<br /><br />It seems only fitting that the Toledo Rockets would select an aerospace engineer to lead its academic enterprise in the years ahead.<br /><br />And with a rich research background and a passion for helping first-generation students enroll and succeed in higher education, it was clear to UT President Sharon L. Gaber that Dr. Andrew Hsu, dean of the College of Engineering at San Jose State University, was the right fit to be UT’s next provost and executive vice president for academic affairs.<br /><br />Hsu’s appointment, which is slated for July 1, is contingent upon approval by the UT Board of Trustees.<br /><br />“Andrew Hsu will be an incredible advocate for students and faculty, and a tremendous leader who will play a crucial role in elevating The University of Toledo on the national stage,” Gaber said.<br /><br />Hsu’s arrival at UT will return him to a familiar state. Earlier in his career, he served as a research engineer at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. He also was associate vice president for research and dean of the graduate school at Wright State University, and he spent a year at Ohio State University as an American Council on Education Fellow.<br /><br />“I am excited by the opportunities The University of Toledo has to offer its students, its employees and its community,” Hsu said, “and I’m excited to help further the momentum President Sharon Gaber has already created in such a short period of time.”<br /><br />During the interview process, Hsu spoke to the campus community about his passion for helping students from disadvantaged backgrounds succeed.<br /><br />“As we push our academics and our research to new levels of excellence, it is the students for whom college was not a foregone conclusion that add so much to our campus community and remind us of why we have chosen higher education as a profession.”<br /><br />Hsu also was a staff scientist at Rolls-Royce North America and a faculty member at the University of Miami and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He received his PhD in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.<br />Gaber also took a minute to thank Interim Provost John Barrett for his service.<br />“John has spent countless hours during the last 18 months leading the academic arm of The University of Toledo and creating an opportunity for a seamless transition upon Andrew’s arrival. I want to join so many across UT in thanking him for his efforts.”<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-49843876843203692462016-03-17T05:26:35.684-07:002016-03-17T05:26:35.684-07:00If you were the Last Man Standing and presently in...If you were the Last Man Standing and presently in the catbird seat, and you knew the urgent importance of your hire to move The Beast forward, might you not ask for the sun and the moon and a thousand stars plus benefits and a new GMC Denali in exchange for your signature on the dotted line? Otherwise it would be back to square one, and another year lost before President Gaber can begin to make UT great again. Say . . Does UT really need to buy itself another provost? . . And where is Ben "he's-a-magic-man" in our time of need?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044792945653054348.post-74126775594640159452016-03-17T03:23:58.494-07:002016-03-17T03:23:58.494-07:00So, asshole faculty member comes sauntering into t...So, asshole faculty member comes sauntering into the office indignantly declaring how terrible it is that the "little ones on the bottom" are in the plan to eliminate the deficit, even naming names and pointing to me personally. Thank you once again state of Ohio, governor, stat senators, constituency, administrators and faculty for outdoing yourselves in making the most committed, hard working, and yet vulnerable people amongst you, after multiple decades of service, feel as valuable as used toilet paper... it is a great state we live in and work...what a great future and vision we all have here with each other...good luck with yourselves....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com