The article examines abuses of the so called "Prudent Investment Rule." You may recall a great deal of conversation a year or so back on UT investments.
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A couple weeks ago, at the beginning of summer break, we in the Department of Foreign Languages were informed that our secretary's position was being eliminated and that while she will not lose her job (she'll be transferred), that position is not to be filled. We apparently will be expected to do our own jobs plus what we can of the secretary's. That is clearly not acceptable, and so one of the steps we in FL are taking against it is an online petition now available for any who want to (including those who for whatever reason--not a registered Ohio voter, not a US citizen, etc.--cannot sign the petition against SB5), to read and sign.
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It's scary to post this under my own name; I'm as afraid as anyone of repercussions. But this is simply too important to keep quiet on, and we have to do something! FL is not the first department that this has happened to, and it's almost certain not to be the last if we don't speak up in a way that the administration will hear us and in a way that makes clear that other people are seeing that it's going on.
Here's the link to the online petition:For those who can make it, there will also be an informational meeting--including lunch and petition-signing--next Friday, May 27 in FH 2420, 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
I know not everyone on the blog will be interested in this; I'm not asking anyone who doesn't want to, to sign or even read the petition. I do think that there are many who would be interested and would want to sign it--if they knew about it.
It's scary to post this under my own name; I'm as afraid as anyone of repercussions. But this is simply too important to keep quiet on, and we have to do something! FL is not the first department that this has happened to, and it's almost certain not to be the last if we don't speak up in a way that the administration will hear us and in a way that makes clear that other people are seeing that it's going on.
Here's the link to the online petition:For those who can make it, there will also be an informational meeting--including lunch and petition-signing--next Friday, May 27 in FH 2420, 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a deeply fascinating article called, "When to Dissolve a Faculty Senate." Apparently this is any time that it becomes "adversarial" to administration.
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See Appendix B of the Administrative Bloat report posted on 8/28 for evidence, but UT now has a higher proportion of administrators to students than all but 12 public universities in America. President Jacobs has finally put University of Toledo in the top tier. With Strategic Organization he may be aiming for number one.
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Jacobs' arrogance is astonishing
Recently, President Lloyd Jacobs of the University of Toledo stated that bonuses were justified because his administrators "took all the risks."
As a professor at UT, I am outraged that President Jacobs claims that administrators take all of the risks. What risks do they take that the other faculty and staffs on campus do not?
Administrators are protected by state and federal employment laws and by their contracts.
When ex-President Vik Kapoor was terminated, he remained a professor with a salary near what he was paid as president.
As president emeritus, Dan Johnson retained a salary greater than his pay as president.
In the recent layoffs, exceptionally few administrators were terminated. It seems to me that low-level personnel at UT have far more risks because the greater proportion of the layoffs have come from their ranks. And they did not have continuing salaries.
President Jacobs' answer to questions on two occasions regarding relinquishing part of his bonus was to the effect that he earned his bonuses and what he did with them was his business.
Administrators do not risk their personal money in their duties: they use taxpayer money and funds collected through donations and grants to the university.
Administrators take home salaries in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and then add bonuses for longevity and whatever else the president decides is fitting for their contracts.
However, the lower-level personnel have much lower salaries and no such bonuses. Where is the risk?
It seems to me that these bonuses are convoluted: The lower-level personnel are taking the greater risks with no bonuses while the administrators with very rewarding jobs with little risk receive large bonuses.
Am I missing something here?
WALTER W. OLSON,
Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing
Engineering,
University of Toledo
It's the same old, same old at UT
I could hardly believe the arrogance of Dr. Lloyd Jacobs, president of the University of Toledo, when a reporter asked if he would be willing to forgo his bonus in light of the layoffs, raise in tuition, etc.
His comment was that he worked for it. Is that to say that the ones being laid off did not work for their pay?
All I can say is, business as usual at UT. Some things never change.
SANDY FLICK
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UT also has checks, balances
In response to letter titled "Professors must focus on teaching," I would like to point out that the University of Toledo operates on the basis of shared governance.
This means that faculty members participate in the administration of the university.
A focus on teaching requires faculty to address administrative issues such as policies, procedures, and yes, finances, because these all affect classroom outcomes. A university with solid and equitable finances benefits everyone, including and especially the students. Just as the U.S. government is constituted to have checks and balances, so is our university government.
The UT-AAUP is one of those checks against UT administrators who most recently have displayed more concern for their own profit rather than a concern for the common good.
LINDA M. ROUILLARD,
Associate Professor
of French,
University of Toledo
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The following is excerpted from the recent UT AAUP newsletter concerning the official university response to news of the bonus scandal:
. . . . Either Jacobs is misleading the media or he has misled the Board of Trustees. President Jacobs objected to "the general tone" of the UT-AAUP Newsletter. Many persons on this campus object to the "general tone" of the Jacobs Administration. During his tenure as President, he has introduced an administrative culture of fear and intimidation. . . . A point of logic must be raised here, with all respect to UT AAUP, the conclusions that President Jacobs has (1) misled the media and (2) the Board of Trustees are not mutually exclusive. Both would seem likely given his considerable talent at spinning "visions." |
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39 comments:
Really? The entire economy crashes, investments nose dive all over the world and at universities across the nation and this is somehow evidence of Jacobs' evil as well? Seriously? Come on, you people are educated!
To Anonymous 7:04:
You are the one who mentioned Jacobs. Do you know something that others don't?
And what's all this "you people" stuff? You can't write a simple comment without resorting to stereotyping?
Remove the beam from your eye, sonny.
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"The wicked flee, though none pursue..."
I would like this to be posted not as a comment, but as a contribution: please have a look at this excellent article:
I would like this to be published not as a comment, but as a contribution. It is from Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/2010/08/01/professor-disappearing-faculty-education-opinions-best-colleges-10-schrecker.html
"Where's My Professor?"
Ellen Schrecker,
The disappearing faculty and the lost soul of American higher education.
Re Anonymous 1:43 posted Forbes magazine article
A college professor writes an article about the vital importance of college professors, citing one cherry-picked, unreferenced and essentially meaningless and inconclusive piece of data (that could doubtless be critiqued and interpreted in numerous different ways to arrive at virtually any desired conclusion).
From this the professor’s article segues to the trouble with underpaid and inadequate adjunct professors and finally incoherently concludes that only traditional academia and tenured faculty (as opposed to obvious superior alternatives such as cutting edge online education) can provide the first rate education students need and deserve.
Shocking.
This is the sort of narrow, biased, dogmatic, jumbled, self-serving propaganda that far too often poses as “research” in academia.
The proliferation of pseudo-research propaganda is only one of myriad serious problems in higher education that persist (and will continue to persist) so long as higher education elites remain committed to worn out, self-serving, cult-like academic dogmas.
See this article from Business Week as just one of countless counter-examples:
http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/109946/college-big-investment-paltry-return?mod=edu-continuing_education
In the name of "efficienies," TPTB are tossing out everything in American society that they regard as "frivolous," at least for the common people. Why let prolies talk to a real bonified professor who might challenge them to think and ask questions, when all they really need to do is watch a video on how to connect nut 1 to bolt 3?
It is much safer to automate the insemination of carefully controlled doses of what one should hesitate to call "learning" on a need to know basis and at the same time keep students as slaves to the cycle of work, debt, high tuition costs, and a hedonistic life-style. Makes them all much more controllable in their post college life.
Real professors might teach them to think and besides, they cost slightly more than web pages and DVDs.
Did you see Jacobs article today in the Blade? According to him, the problem is that he wants to work hard and the faculty don't want to work hard. That's the root of the conflict. And the Blade leaves that impression. This is real second class leadership. If they hold faculty and staff in this much contempt, the situation is pretty hopeless. That is not the attitude of quality leadership. They are ruining UT.
Say the people coming back from their three-month vacation...
I read that article. Talk about spooning in public! The pandering editorial/interview with President Jacobs you refer to is highly offensive. The piece insults the integrity of the journalistic profession. Every paragraph is a sham and an insult to the a critial readership searching for honest reporting about what is really going on at UT.
Jacobs proclaims "You own it. You change it." What scurrilous and self-serving philosophy is this?
Does Jacobs really believe he owns our priceless regional fount of public higher education? Take note, BOT: The University of Toledo belongs to the taxpayers of Ohio who ought to be more than fed up by now with this inept and arrogant Jacobs administration.
Let's get rid of this mercenary scrapper and his entire gang of vandalizing carpetbaggers. Save our good reputation and hard-earned academic accreditation. Save the liberal arts. Save the A&S College. Save what's left before it is ALL gone!
"Four years and out!" Fight for what's right! Now is the time - and not a minute too soon!
anon 3:40, faculty are PAID for 9months. Do you have something against market rates and contracts? Even at that it is a pittance compared to what administrators make. Maybe the president and the administration should not be paid for summers that way they would do less damage!
You can't read the article any other way. Jacob's red herring to distract from the real issue. That is definitely not quality leadership. In the end his policies will have the exact opposite effect of what is intended.
yeah, 100K for nine months. must be rough.
Amazing, thousands of UT faculty and staff are all lazy, but Jake likes to work hard. Simply amazing.
None of the faculty I know have been on vacation for three months. Around here, summer is when you finally have time to get your research done.
I understand the value of open discourse, but some of these comments are so ignorant.
To Some post doc:
Yes, I agree with you. After watching and participating on this blog for quite some time, I think these "you earn too much lazy faculty" comments are coming from administrators who think they should earn all the money, while everyone else, who they seem to think works for them, earns low dollar and should be grateful for a job they provide. They really seem to think this way.
The fact is that education-wise and experience wise, the faculty generally outclass the administrators. Are they thinking to keep someone with experience and a PHD for less than 100K annually is even possible?
Of course what they want is all lecturers with maybe MAs and such, who teach much, get paid little, therefore leaving more money to give to administrators . And of course, do what they are told by administrators with no possibility of talking back.
These UT administrators are a sad lot of puffed up egomaniacs/
200K+ for sitting around complaining for 12 mos, having posh lunches, retreats, figuring out how many staff you need to layoff for the next round of bonuses...sounds like administrators have a real rough time...
New trustee is a banker I see. Even the Democratic governor is giving UT business people for trustees. If Kasich wins in November we'll get cave men for trustees. The choice is evidently between business people and anti-education business people.
Here's the link:
http://www.toledoblade.com/article/20100815/COLUMNIST45/8140359/-1/COLUMNIST
to the David Kushma editorial many people have been referring to; read it for yourself.
Even if I knew nothing about UT, Jacob's words in that article would sound arrogant, self-serving, and conceited.
Nice entry at Instapundit:
HIGHER ED BUBBLE UPDATE: Administrative Bloat at American Universities: The Real Reason for High Costs in Higher Education. “Between 1993 and 2007, the number of full-time administrators per 100 students at America’s leading universities grew by 39 percent, while the number of employees engaged in teaching, research or service only grew by 18 percent. Inflation-adjusted spending on administration per student increased by 61 percent during the same period, while instructional spending per student rose 39 percent. Arizona State University, for example, increased the number of administrators per 100 students by 94 percent during this period while actually reducing the number of employees engaged in instruction, research and service by 2 percent. Nearly half of all full-time employees at Arizona State University are administrators.”
Now I understand why the UT administratoisie is so keen on mimicking Arizona State.
Yr humble & obt
John Dickinson.
Don't you guys get it yet?
Mr. Scarbough has said on many occasions, the reason tuition is going up is because of faculty salaries. He reports for the University. Quit fighting the official and fianl word on this issue!
The US News & World Report rankings are out. See if you can find UT? My search found it about seven places from the absolute bottom of one set of listings.
However, all of this really doesn't count, eh?
^On rankings, Forbes has us at #589 out of 610. I'm sure Larry Burns will figure out how to get that on a very very large foam rubber hand with 589 extended index fingers.
On the other hand, we're ahead of Kent, Akron, and Youngstown, so we've got that going for us, anyway.
My understanding of the scuttlebutt is that the trustees want to go in two directions. The Republican appointees want to remake us into the Univ. of Phoenix, and the Democrats into Libbey High School. This is the result.
Yr humble & obt
John Dickinson.
All these years Jacobs and the BOT have been having their way with UT and this is the best they can do?
Guess they can't bully US News& World Report.....
OK, John Dickinson, you've made some good points in the past but your last two (particularly your last one) are non-sensical.
First you seem to be saying that every employee who is not a faculty member is an administrator. Or rather you quote Inside Higher Ed saying it because you have faith in the matter. For this argument to be true at a school the size of Arizona State, there would have to be, what, some 2,000-plus AVPs and VPs? That's ridiculous. I don't think the ASU folks who serve in similar positions as our Professional Staff should universally and in all circumstances be classified as "administrators" unless the goal is to disparage the work they do.
Also, I'm frankly shocked you bring up the Forbes ranking and provide it any sort of credibility. The rankings are based in large part on rankings from ratemyprofessor.com and Who's Who in Higher Education. The former includes a rating for a professor's "hotness" and membership in the latter is pay-for-play. The Forbes rankings refer to "John Hopkins University (yes, John, not Johns) and intermingle the two Wheaton Colleges' stats.
UT's ranking in US news and world report is a function of open enrollment with no branch campus and UT's lack of reputation (despite the seemingly sexual charge so many seem to get from bashing the organization they claim to love). Further, UT's position has been static in this ranking for more than a decade.
The irony of so many decrying UT turning into a business model university and then pointing to a business magazine for evidence of a college's worth is pathetic.
I'm very surprised at the faith you give to the Forbes rankings. Have you seen their methodology?
http://www.forbes.com/2010/08/01/best-colleges-methodology-opinions-colleges-10-ccap.html
I don't think the education I provide my students can be measured by a magazine trying to sell itself and I'm surprised you do.
Check out the ratemyprofessor site with John Dickinson thinks is sound methodology for ranking universities.
http://ratemyprofessors.com/SelectTeacher.jsp?sid=1274
Students think UT professors are a 3 out of 5 and ignoring "hotness" faculty are graded on 1.) helpfulness, 2.) clarity and 3.) easiness. Nowhere do faculty get graded on their grasp of the subject or the effort put into planning lessons and lectures. No results are measured. In fact an easy professor gets ranked higher and therefore would raise UT's ranking in the Forbes magazine.
John, if you think this is what a university education should be based on and if you're going to give in creedence, I would have to say you likely received your degree from U of Phoenix. I'm really surprised you'd lend your named to something without checking out the veracity of the data.
According to the ratemyprofessor rankings Forbes uses, Andy Jorgenson ranks 1 out of 5. Any ranking system that ranks colleges that has Andy Jorgensen as anything less than one of the most outstanding professors at UT is a slur against talented, dedicated faculty across this institution and I'm disappointed this blog is trafficking in those slurs.
I already know how the UT leadership will attempt to address this awful evaluation by US News & World Report. They will do one of the following:
Try blowing large amounts of the UT budget on advertising in US News, invite their leaders to be members of the BOT, force students to subscribe to digital versions of their magazine, and kick all other magazines off campus.
Or, denounce US News as an increasingly backward and irrelevent outspoken minority among magazines that refuses to focus on "the good things happening at UT." Also they are lazy and just plain jealous of Jake.
Or over fall break, form a committee to restructure US News to make it "more manageable."
I don't think any of these will work outside the 43606 zipcode, but hey, they are the only tools they seem to have in their bag.
Shouldn't the rankings be publishedin the UT News? Our administration should want all of to know how successful they are in making this a better university for students.
what was UT's ranking before Jacobs?
Bowling Green got a nice complement from TV-13 for their placement in the USNWR rankings.
The same station said nothing about UT.
Nobody looks at these? Dream on.
Anon 9:59,
Indeed, teaching evaluations are pretty bogus, aren't they? Now, how does your department assign teaching merit scores?
Anon 10:04,
Look again. Jorgensen has 69 reviews that put him about on average. But, perhaps you mean that to slime him is to slime all UT faculty, and isn't that an indictment of our entire university? Oh hell, just start at 2:23.
Anon 9:21
Yes, we stunk when Jacobs was lording it over MCO. But opening our seacocks will not make our ship ride higher.
We could be a better university, but you have to want to be better. Neither disbelief in criticism nor putting Dilbert's pointy haired boss in charge will get us there.
Yr humble & obt
John Dickinson.
Anonymous 9:59. Why trash the authority and validity of the RMP student evaluation data? The student comments on their site invariably offer the sort of valuable insights and details about teaching effectiveness and the quality of course content that students need to make their decisions about which courses to take and from which professors.
Don't make a chore out of this professor evaluation process. RMP works. It is genius. All my friends use it. Plus it is entertaining. So get off the haystack and move to the city. Learn to disco. RMP is the real deal.
It is not mainly slackers that seek out and contribute to RMP data. Diligent students by the busload want, deserve and and are willing to pay for top-quality professors. RMP is calibrated to the wants and needs of the current generation of college freshmen. Use it, don't abuse it.
Even the "Hotness" category is useful (as this week's Chronicle of Higher Education reveals). Students pack those classrooms with hunks and hunketts at the helm, even if they grade on a curve.
Average students will work to earn "A"s just to impress these RMP professors with chillies. They will enjoy the pain. Gym rats will crowd the front of the class and muscle the weak to the rear of the room, then eat them on the day of the final exam. Intellectual Darwinism will prevail.
Stranger's interrupt their relentless searching to audit the "Hot" classes. Administrators will find excuses to drift in and scope out the scene. Everyone gathered will like tigers and wolves remain alert to every lesson, every move, and pounce on every opportunity to participate in class discussions.
In sum, President Jacobs please embrace RMP data. Procure "Hot" professors and UT will proceed rapidly to the top tier of Newsweek and Forbes rankings. Their ends will justify your means.
From the Chronicle, for those who feel the US News rankings are credible:
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/The-US-News-Seal-of/26287/
Forbes ranks 610 colleges by specific numeric rank. Forbes started doing their rankings in 2008.
Here are the Forbes College Rankings for UT by year:
2010 – UT ranked 589th out of 610
2009 – UT ranked 583
2008 – UT ranked 564
Though there has been a slight decline in UT’s ranking since 2008, the positive or negative effect of the Jacob’s administration (or any other factors) on UT’s Forbes rankings are in all likelihood statistically insignificant.
U. S. News places lower ranked colleges in a second tier by alphabetical order with no actual numeric ranking in the second tier.
It is therefore not possible to track movement in second tier colleges or determine exactly how close to the bottom UT is in the U. S. News rankings.
Rankings? Beyond a certain point on a list of over 600, these rankings don't mean much. So we are not in the top tier? Move on.
We aren't even sure what a "comprehensive" university means at Toledo. Is it a Tech University with a community college for the liberal arts. Oh and a medical school. Rankings are for football teams based on wins and losses.
We have all learned recently that evaluations don't matter. So let's not worry about RMP. Rate my Administrator is only "silly kid stuff", right?
So what should we do? We need to walk out of our individual classrooms proud of the job we have done, each day. Beyond that, there is much less we can control.
Peace
Before you put much faith in ratemy professor, the first name is listed is the Angel of Death. I think he retired three or four years ago. And they couldn't even spell my name correctly: it may not be as easy as Jones but it sure isn't Wjokowski!
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