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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Ssssnaking It

We're back and still don't know our headsss from our tailssss.  First we are going to form ssome new collegessss, then ssome ssschoolsss, and then, after we shed our skinss, we will give ourself big bonuses. 

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I did complete the Senate evaluation form even though it's much ado about nothing. VK II, the BOT, and Columbus are all already convinced that faculty are a bunch of greedy children who are resistant to anything that changes the status quo and their privileged positions on the public dole. Remember Issue 2? VK II will stay or go depending on enrollment - and maybe it will come to a crisis in the fall. If there's another 5% or more decrease, on top of the enrollment decreases we have recently seen, another 13+ million budget deficit, and nothing to show again from the VK II economic experiments, then maybe the BOT will consider the VK II experiment a failure, finally. Especially if area schools don't see similar downturns in enrollment. All faculty can hope for in a best case scenario is to be able to do the ole wink and nod 'We told you so.' Otherwise, look for all tenure track faculty not pulling in external funding to be 4/4, larger class sizes being rigidly enforced, programs being eliminated, and UT turning into a glorified (very expensive) community college.

Anonymous said...

You all do realize that Scottie is being groomed to be our next President, don't you? More of the same. Micro management without any real understanding of the Academy.

Anonymous said...

Faculty: Just say no.

Anonymous said...

"You all do realize that Scottie is being groomed to be our next President, don't you?" Yes! UT's rush back to the medieval ages continues with the anointment of the new pope, who will use Ebeneezer as his name: Pope Ebeneezer (as in Scrooge). Do you really think there was a search for a Provost? All those candidates were just posing to fool naive faculty. Wait to see who he will appoint as his princes!