Monday, December 10, 2012
Posted on my Facebook page was this quotation from Albert Einstein:
“I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.”
I thought immediately of the UT administration and its emphasis on going to so much instruction online.
Here some illustrations--look familiar? I'm sure you could find more elsewhere:
http://nj1015.com/these-photos-are-proof-albert-einstein-was-correct-about-technology/
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I am so out of touch with world, retired and all. Yet I still make six figures a year above my retirement from major companies because 1) I am an engineer and 2) I can program in Assembler, COBOL, Fortran, Algol, Forth, Pascal, C, C++, Lisp, Parlog, and several other computer languages that are used in the technologies that drive our lives! Too bad engineers today don't know their trade, can't apply their trade and don't know how to even program the IPad that share stories on Facebook. What is going to happen when us old timers all get Alzheimer's or Dementia and pass? (and I have never had a DL course.)
anyone notice the slowdown in blog responses. is it lack of relevance?
The lull before the storm, I'd say.
How can anything lack relevance in the "Relevant University?"
The word is that the administration wants to lower the GPA requirements for admission to the Honors College. That way everyone can be honorable.
To 11:04 am:
I'm sure UT administrators keep hoping that the blog will become "irrelevant." That you and they keep watching it tells us all we need to know.
so where have all the posters gone?
It's the end of semester.
All these new Colleges announced by fiat. Those 13 or so new deans and other administrative functionaries will sure save a lot of money. The problem with UT is that it has too many deans and such. Put some of those useless bog-talkers back into the classroom, assuming they can still teach. If not retire them. Enough dead weight!
We are crazy if we believe that the end of semester inhibits commited individuals. the cash is flowing to undeserving folks while the faculty are teaching the service courses and the majors. Wake up folks. What more do you need to see of Armageddon?
in any revolution, people (and families) took risks, the unempowered decided that resistance (open resistance) was better than cooperation. so the question is posed,, what stops UT faculty and staff from resisting? What keeps them so cowed in a closet? is that they were over-payed for what they did? or undercommited? WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR? (A GUARANTEE THAT WE WILL WIN?) never gonna happen. Good luck all.
Here you are the new shining Strategic Plan:
IMAGINE 2017
You can find it here:
http://www.utoledo.edu/strategicplan/2017/
I do not know if the name is even ironic or not...
Actually I am not able to figure out much in terms of implementation; anyone could have prepared such a plan in a week and for 5000$, not 90 days and for God-only-knows how many dollars.
Good night and good luck!
I was just wondering where the posters have been the last several months?
The Provost's contract awards him a $150,000 bonus after 90 days on the job (end of December) - that is one cost for the preparation of this plan.
Anonymous 5:21
Where have YOU been?
I never have been a regular contributor, but apparently many regulars have been missing for months.
Anon 4:42 et al: From what I know about campus activism, it's usually students, not faculty or staff, who lead the battle for change. Once there's a critical mass of protest, like-minded faculty and staff come along.
If you look at the comments on the IC website, you'll see plenty of students who think Lloyd Jacobs and his friends are bad for their education. The question is why this student dissatisfaction doesn't go anwhere.
$150,000 bonus for 90 days on the job....no training, no preparation to be provost....but $150,000 bonus for preparing a power point presentation full of second hand boiler plate quotes strung together and attending a book circle...while administrative extravagance and excess
$150,000 bonus for 90 days on the job....no training, no preparation to be provost....but $150,000 bonus for preparing a power point presentation full of second hand boiler plate quotes strung together and attending a book circle...while administrative extravagance and excess continue to put us in the hole....it is obscene.
Did someone here about the 4+4 load which is coming down the pipeline for all departments? (unless you have a grant to buy out some teaching). Maybe for the more stemmy departments they will "only" enforce a 3+3, which is in any case simply crazy.
The slowdown in responses may be normal during holidays, but the "lull before the [shit]storm" theory may have some validity, since UT's top administrators are ready for the Big Fart...it's brewing since they have yet to fight for their bonuses and will blame the unions, faculty, and the other underpaid hard-working staff. We need to address their relevance to academia, and throw them out one by one.
By the way, how is the boycott of BOT businesses is going?
IMAGINE 2017...
-- no real faculty, just well-paid administrators and outsourced DL jobs to adjuncts fresh out of grad school
-- no unions -- forget their constitutional right to assembly while brainfucked supporters of 2nd amendment rights may conclude that school shootings (like rapes) are some god's will and may also be free speech (as the producers of violent video games may believe)
-- no humanities -- it has to be STEM, STEM, and STEM for profit to support the lifestyles of fat cats in UT administration. Who needs to teach values, culture, and history????
From UT NEWS:
A stabbing incident was reported at International House on The University of Toledo Main Campus at 9 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 19.
When officers arrived on scene, they discovered a victim who appeared to have been stabbed and was transported to a local hospital. Shortly after, at 9:23 p.m., officers discovered a second victim who has died from what appears to be injuries caused by a stabbing, according to Larry Burns, UT vice president for external affairs.
The University community was alerted to the situation at 9:44 p.m. with a UT Alert message of a dangerous situation at International House that advised to stay away from the building.
International House is home to six students during the winter break, four staff members and four student workers.
Toledo Police and University of Toledo Police have secured the scene. The incident is under investigation, and there was no immediate information available regarding suspects or a motive.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, and we will provide additional information as it becomes available,” Burns said.
It is very sad when events like last night assaults happen, especially on university ground.
Knowing our adminwhores, I am sure we will soon have a vice-president + vice-provost + assistants for students security.. more dollars spent of useless people. Oh crap, I realized I just gave them this idea!
From UT NEWS: A stabbing incident was reported at International House on The University of Toledo Main Campus at 9 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 19.
My question: Jo Campbell, director of Residence Life, resigned in May this year over "concern about student-centeredness and safety issues in the Residence Life program.” This is the IC quoting Lloyd and Patten (now Wallace) (http://tinyurl.com/cftegtg).
Question: Was Campbell forced to resign for her criticism of lax security policies (in the name of student-centeredness or student experience)?
If this incident is the direct result of administratorial negligence leading to lax security measures, the UT administration now has blood on its hands, and it's time to prosecute anyone who is involved. It is most likely that the UT Police chief will lose his job before anyone touches Lloydie, Scary, or Kaye. We know that from the "misplaced kidney" case when the nurses were let go instead of Rees....
Dear Anon. of Dec20-936am!
I love the term 'adminwhores' - it fully represents Lloydie's idea of in-breeding:
“It is my belief that higher education across the country at the national level is inbred."
UT President Lloyd Jacobs
Who could not resist connecting the two dots: higher education (with lowered grade requirements for Honors College) as imagined by adminwhores?
This is the hallmark of dictatorships that Toledo is tolerating with that sorry excuse for newspaper called Blade. I am boycotting it. I think it is getting dull though: incompetent editors and reporters. You've got to be Lloydie's pets (or worse...) to work there.
I see that University of Detroit is "Enhancing the Human Potential" these days. They must have hired the same consultants who cooked up Lloyd's "Improving the Human Condition."
Dear Anon December 21, 2012 6:46 AM:
I can tell you who else may be "Improving the Human Condition" at UT.
Heard the NRA statement in response to the school shooting? I bet they represent a host of pro-lifers (you must love the iron here...)
Anyway, it looks like we may also need armed guards outside each residence hall. No, not the low-paid ones in the university's employ but those who were security contractors in Iraq. It appears that UT has got money to burn right at the edge of the fiscal cliff: $150K for Scotty? He surely will need a well-paid spit-guard....
Correction: "iron" in the comment above should be "irony."
The new watch word for the university is "branding." We need "branding!" I could not help but to think how appropriate that is at an institution where the students, faculty, and staff are all treated like "cattle."
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