From the Toledo Blade, Feb. 11, 2001
http://www.toledoblade.com/article/20110211/NEWS16/102100370
A $12 million dollar gateway!
See it for yourself:
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/misc?url=/templates/zoom.pbs&Site=TO&Date=20110211&Category=NEWS16&ArtNo=102100370&Ref=AR
Yep, there’s money for that!
UT Update, Feb. 15, 2011:
Outsourcing Food and Nutrition Services, the UT Medical Center gift shop: UT jobs lost!
Increasing faculty workload!
UToday
Board committee OKs police contract extension, asks for faculty workload discussion
With a difficult budget cycle ongoing statewide for fiscal year 2012, University of Toledo trustees discussed several items designed to help plan for providing services with reduced funding.
During a Feb. 14 Academic and Student Affairs Committee meeting, UT officials announced they had reached a tentative one-year contract extension with the UT Police Patrolman’s Association (UTPPA), pending board approval; were exploring the outsourcing of Food and Nutrition Services and the gift shop at UT Medical Center; and asked that the administration and faculty begin a conversation considering increasing faculty workload from 12 to 15 credit hours or equivalent per semester.
The agreement with UTPPA, now extended through Dec. 31, 2012, calls for a 0 percent wage increase, eight furlough hours, and a one-time retirement cash incentive if notice is submitted by March 31. Additionally, members have an increased off-campus prescription co-payment, which is an effort to encourage usage of the UT Pharmacy and reduce the University’s prescription coverage costs. The extension was approved by a 27-1 vote of the union membership.
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Gotta save money somehow!
Loss of Rob Bruno and other essential staff!
Gotta save money somehow!
Hire more administrators!
Yep, there’s money for that!
Give administrators bonuses!
Yep, there’s money for that!
Cut janitorial staff: “Unwanted guests” in buildings! Trash collects around campus!
Gotta save money somehow!
A student-centered university???
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I hope some day the group that is running things we see all the damage, pain, suffering, and loss to students, tax payers, and faculty staff that they have caused. I mean that sincerely and without anger...well maybe with some anger...
The Blade story says right in it that UT isn't paying for the Gateway, the Foundation is...
Great points the rest of the way, but your first point undercuts your credibility a little.
So, the Foundation is going to take money donated for scholarships and the like and "invest" it in another vacant strip mall across Dorr St. The goal, acc to the Blade article, is to have lots of bars, just like on High St in Columbus. Because our students work so hard as it is.
So why doesn't the Foundation cough something up to help pay for other things (arguably just as worthwhile, if not more so)?
Anon 4:51--I thought your comment was interesting, so I re-read the original post. I think if you have another look, you'll see that it doesn't say where the money is coming from, just that it's there for this multi- million dollar project.
There is money for things the administration wants. Bonuses, more specialty administrators, more vice-presidents, more and even more bonuses, more parties, more goofy gimcracks like shirts, coffee cups, and pens to hand out to folks and all kinds of crap. They pour out and drink money for themselves and their buddies like it was water and then piss on those below them and flush them down the toilet with no more thought than if they were a piece of toilet paper. Instead of making contractors and real estate wheeler dealers wealthy, put that money into more scholarships! Students have enough fast food places and bars to clog their arteries.
Every day I wake up and wonder whether I will be able to feed my family next year. The culture of fear hurts, stresses, and, yes, angers those who are seen as expendable, with no regard to how well they do their job. When these press releases admit that there will be pain, it's clear that it means pain will be inflicted. I am sure that those who are making these decisions have fortified themselves well against the pain of others. In order to do so, you must force in yourself a failure of empathy. So it's no use saying "Shame on you," and it's no use talking about how the weakest among us are the earliest targets of every cut. And, given recent developments at the statehouse, there is likely no recourse. It is a situation reminiscent of the tactics of the leaders of eastern and central Europe in the 1930's and early 1940's. This evening there is hidden grief everywhere, and the grief will only expand as these characters continue to act out of their own expediencies, and for their own personal benefits. I wish reciprocal grief upon all of them, but let's be honest: Those who have most will continue to take from those who have least, and there is little any of us can do about it.
I think Dorr street development would be pretty high on the list of things students want. I don't think the other items are very student-centered, but I think Dorr street is and I know a number of people who live back there who also would like to see the development to help diminish crime. Asserting that students don't need the sort of establishments what will be put up seems like the same sort of paternalism that administration partakes in that drives me nuts.
Dorr Street and other issues don't fall into the same category IMHO.
You forgot: We have classrooms with insufficient light and heat. Apparently we can't afford the maintenance staff to take care of that.
There is always money to pay for another VP or another bonus.
With our administration, you have to look at what they do, not what they say. There isn't a money shortage overall - there's a shortage of funds available for what they want to spend it on. So, they take from people and places they don't value, to spend on people and things they do value. It's a reallocation plan, not a cost saving plan.
Our main mission is no longer education - that is just a means to an end. They are sucking the education component dry to fund economic development.(and, themselves, of course)
Great leaders do not alienate the majority of their employees. Change can happen in a spirit of cooperation - just not at UT, just not with our current leadership.
This administration has also cost us some of our most excellent faculty and administrators ("excellent administrator" doesn't have to be an oxymoron). These are people who have dtawn students to UT and built up programs UT could be proud of. Again, the students are the ultimate losers.
A university is, after all, in the business of education. But it really isn't a university any more when it's just a business, with no regard for education, is it? UT is well along on that path.
Anon 7:20--I think you hit the nail on the head. If we lose our head IT guy while keeping women's studies--it looks like we don't have a budget problem, we have a priority problem.
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