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COMMENT OF THE WEEK
Bloggie applauds this perspicacious observer:
"The administration is in a panic mode to implement controversial and irreversible structural and curricular changes campus-wide by early February fiscal plan deadlines with only the vaguest notions of their impacts. The plan is, according to an interview with a top administrator published in the most recent Independent Collegian, to cast out many seeds and "see what grows." This experimental garden, as most senators articulated in many different ways, seems a costly recipe for disaster. Utter madness. Stay tuned."
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Comment of the Week
"This is that old tension between the corporate way of doing things and the academic way of doing things. In the corporate world, you sweep everything under the rug to make your b.s. as shiny, pleasing to the nose, and profitable as possible. In the academic world, you operate with a higher moral standard. Veritas and all that."
Comment of the Week of August 13
Re UT academic posers and hypocrites:
Have their checks calculated in units of postmodern theoretical currency and issued in photocopied legal tender notes signed by Walter Benjamin with a photo of Karl Marx and a seal stamped “In Derrida We Trust”.
Comment of the Era
Wow! Ain't that something.
-Anonymous
Comment of the Week
Mention goes to the the anonymous commentator of Feb 7, who, regarding UT President Llloyd Jacob's "Investing in Faculty" letter, stated: "If we could use the same criteria for 'investing in administrators' we could cut most of those positions."
Comments to HLC
Make sure you address your comments to HLC to the email address listed below in the "Higher Learning Commission Wants to Know" post. This may be the only chance you have to be heard. Bloggie hears that UT administration has discussed giving faculty "training" so that faculty members know how to "properly" talk to the HLC folks. How's that for stacking the deck? Does everyone get a little script to read? Make sure you practice before a mirror at being bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
Comment of the Week!
Definitely, the Comment of the Week award goes to Anonymous 12:14 pm, Dec 3, under the "Higher Learning Commission Needs to Know" posting by Diogenes. Pithy and pointed!
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Independent Collegian Article on Dicey Administrative Spending
IC reporter Casey Cheap looks at bow ties, apartments and movie tickets purchased by UT administrators at university/public expense. See
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Letter and Petition from Foreign Languages Faculty Member
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.
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.
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.
Katherine Best
Wave of the Future or Merely Sometime Later This Week?
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.
The online comments to the article are priceless.
Nemeth on Mammon in IC
David Nemeth's most recent tour-de-force
Professor Nemeth has another fabulous and timely article in the new and increasingly wonderful Independent Collegian. See http://www.independentcollegian.com/forum/the-kraken-attacks-1.2340091
Nemeth Does it Again
See the forum article in The Independent Collegian at:
Nemeth's New Article in Collegian
The Independent Collegian has run another of Professor Nemeth's fine and provocative articles in its latest edition. This one discusses the double-talk by mouthpieces for the current UT administration concerning the effects of and reasons behind so-called strategic reorganization. Make sure you get the latest version of Newspeak 5.1 if you want to decode what UT administrators are really saying.
UT Ranks 13th Nationally on Administrative Bloat
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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Recent Letters from The Blade
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
Rose Acres Drive
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
Quote of the Year (so far)
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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Jake and Scary!
Jake and Scary!
Jake and Scary!
From the Faculty Senate Meeting of Feb 12, 2013. President Dowd speaking:
I have lost track of the number of meetings I and the other members of your Executive Committee have had with administrators since the previous Senate meeting. But it seems the discussion was the same at each meeting – talking about the teaching workload forms and the implementation of the new workload policy. As I said, there have been many, many meetings but few resolutions to the relevant issues. Sadly, I honestly do not have anything new to report to Senate. However, please note that Bill Koester, Chairman of the University of Toledo Board of Trustees, has accepted my invitation to address the Faculty Senate at our next meeting. I extended that invitation because I wanted Senators and non-Senators to have the opportunity to raise their concerns about the proposed workload policy to the Chairman of the Board.
Speaking of the Board, earlier today I presented the Faculty Senate report to the Board of Trustee’s Academic and Student Affairs Committee. If the Senate permits, I will include in this report the issues I raised with the Board. First, with regard the workload memo, I stated that I believe faculty members have moved far-beyond the mechanics of the proposed workload policy, in particular, specific teaching assignments. Faculty members have analyzed the details of that policy and, almost universally, came to the same conclusion that execution of that policy will fundamentally change the structure and direction of the University of Toledo. I reported to the Board my belief that teaching workloads are not the central issue. At issue are all of the other activities faculty perform that must be reduced or eliminated in order to comply with the provost’s/chancellor’s workload memo. Over the years, I have been honored to be elected approximately 20 times to leadership positions in Faculty Senate and Graduate Council. I stated that in my experience, no single act by a UT administration has produced such a unified and extremely negative reaction from the faculty and that the workload memo sends an unmistakable signal that this administration does not value faculty members’ work with students, faculty and student research, or a faculty member’s service to department, college, university, and profession. I encouraged Board members to verify the above statements by reading the provost’s/chancellor’s workload memo, speak with other faculty members about its implications, and draw their own conclusions. I said that faculty members are concerned about whether our University will continue as a university, or simply as a business. Universities seek high ideals; while businesses seek high profits only. The provost’s/chancellor’s workload memo sends the clear signal that the administration’s view of UT is that it is a business, without clear consideration given to academic issues
From the Faculty Senate Meeting of Feb 12, 2013. President Dowd speaking:
The next issue I raised with the board is my belief that our students cannot plan ahead. Just about every year since the merger this university has “reorganized” in one way or another. Every year the administration creates and destroys, creates and destroys. Because everything has to start over each year, the only unwavering characteristic of the University of Toledo is significant uncertainty on all matters. This makes it exceptionally difficult for students, faculty, departments and colleges to plan for next year or subsequent years. For example, most departments begin to determine their schedule of courses for any particular academic year in November or December of the previous year. That, of course, allowed students to plan ahead. But over the past few years, department chairs have not been able to schedule in advance because they do not know whether they will be given permission to hire the necessary instructors to meet the demand for their courses. What is the true cost from all of this? Faculty cannot plan ahead so our students cannot plan ahead. When students cannot plan ahead then neither can their parents. The true cost is paid by our students. What has been the “market’s reaction” to President Jacob’s never ending cycle of “creative destruction” and the unyielding uncertainty under his management? The market “has spoken”: for years our enrollment has declined and continues to decline, and our retention rate is among the worst in Ohio.
The next issue I raised with the Board was related to the previous issue. The other feature of President Jacob’s never-ending policy of “creative destruction” is that no administrator is ever held accountable for their failures. If a new “whiz-bang” idea fails then the responsible administrator is simply moved to a different administrative position without being accountable for their failure, and allowed to follow some other new “whiz-bang” idea. I asked, again, what are the true costs from each failure? Every new “whiz-bang” idea that has failed has imposed significant costs on our students in terms of time and tuition dollars spent and progress towards their degree.
I then explained to the Board that during his December presentation to Faculty Senate, Chief Financial Officer David Dabney claimed that the total cuts to college and department budgets have summed to only $203,000 since FY2009. I noted to the Board that CFO Dabney’s claim is incredulous because most colleges have faced budget cuts of multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars each year since 2009. I also noted that your Faculty Senate Executive Committee asked CFO Dabney to provide the financial data to support that claim but so far CFO Dabney has refused to do so. I then respectfully requested that the Board of Trustees direct CFO Dabney to provide Faculty Senate with specific and detailed financial data on each and every budget cuts each college has had to endure since FY2009.
The final issue I raised with the Board at that meeting focused on the number of sabbatical leaves submitted by the administration for approval by the Board. The Board was asked to approve 8 sabbatical leaves for next year. Only 8 sabbatical leaves. I stated that in my opinion that number is an order of magnitude smaller than what is expected of a university of our size. I stated that because detailed reports are filed by faculty members after completing their sabbatical leaves, the president, chancellor, and provost are well aware of the significant work accomplished during each sabbatical leave. Hence, approving only 8 sabbatical leaves sends another clear signal that this administration does not value the research of its faculty members. I then asked President Jacobs to enumerate the number of sabbatical leaves granted each year by peer institutions. As President Jacobs routinely asks faculty to meet or exceed “Best Practices,” I stated that he should be held to the same standard. So I asked President Jacobs to describe to the Board the “Best Practices” he followed when submitting only 8 sabbatical leave proposals for Board approval. His response to this question, and I am quoting, was “None.”. When pressed on this issue by a Board Member, President Jacobs stated that this was a financial decision and that sabbatical leaves “are expensive.” That was it. I want to make certain that I am not misrepresenting President Jacobs’ response to those questions. I see that Chancellor Gold is in attendance. Chancellor Gold, do you remember any other specific remarks that the president made about that issue at that meeting?
Chancellor Gold: I don’t.
If we could grant a sabbatical leave to Dr. Jacobs for a year, think of the progress we could make as a University.
A large numbers of companies that implemented "Best Practices" in the early 1990's when this was the then current buzzword in manufacturing are no longer around today. The problems were several fold. There was a false representation of what was "best" in that every new idea was considered "best" without consideration for the business, the unperceived costs and the lack of data to support the claim. In addition, companies replaced well working cost areas with unproven units organized according to "best practices" thereby destroying the foundations of the company.
"Best" indicates an optimization has been made. Therein is the real problem. What is considered "best" according to an arbitrary or poorly chosen standards (OR people: read "cost function",) leads to results that are hardly "best." If whoever is doing the optimization does not fully understand their business, they cannot develop an adequate standard to determine what a "Best Practice" actually is.
It seems to me that the University of Toledo has a leadership that does not understand the business of academia, have never served in key positions within the university such as classroom Instructors, Department Chairs, Deans of Colleges, etc., but are posing standards that sub-optimize and are inadequate to determine what a "Best Practice" is for the University of Toledo.
From MSN Money
HOW UNCLE SAM MADE $100 BILLION ON STUDENT DEBT
[…AND HOW WE ARE ABLE TO SUBSIDIZE SO MANY REDUNDANT, USELESS, PARASITIC, BULLSHIT HIGH-SALARY ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATORS AND FUND SO MANY REDUNDANT, BULLSHIT, POLITICIZED MOFO POMO PSEUDO-ACADEMIC PROGRAMS…
Answer: By making students and taxpayers – and their children and grandchildren, indentured debtor-servants for life with unsustainable student and public debt and taxation and Fed money printing that will enrich a few Wall Street, Washington, Hollywood, Media and Academia elites today, but economically and culturally cripple the nation and the future generations of tomorrow. – Ed.]
THE GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN BORROWING MONEY ON THE CHEAP AND LENDING IT OUT AT A PREMIUM, REAPING HUGE PROFITS.
…RIGHT NOW, BOTH ART SCHOOL STUDENTS AND MBAS ALIKE ARE BEING CRUSHED BY STUDENT DEBT.
DEEPLY INDEBTED DOCTORATE RECIPIENTS ARE SEEKING FOOD STAMPS IN INCREASING NUMBERS.
ROUGHLY 284,000 COLLEGE GRADUATES ARE MAKING MINIMUM WAGE.
Even when graduates get a job, their debt doesn't get any less onerous. The Center For College Affordability and Productivity reported that
NEARLY HALF OF THE COLLEGE GRADUATES FROM THE CLASS OF 2010 ARE IN JOBS THAT DON'T REQUIRE A BACHELOR'S DEGREE.
A FULL 38% HAVE TAKEN JOBS THAT DON'T EVEN REQUIRE A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION.
According to the Associated Press, THAT HAS DROPPED THE MEDIAN WAGE FOR COLLEGE GRADUATES SIGNIFICANTLY SINCE 2000.
[But the cost of college education continues to skyrocket and the proliferation of useless bullshit high salary academic administrators and useless bullshit pseudo-academic programs and pseudo-college-degrees continues apace. – Ed.]
WITH ALL STUDENT DEBT ADDING UP TO $1.1 TRILLION
it's likely a good time to start discussing some solutions. In the meantime, the government has no problem watching the money roll in.
http://money.msn.com/now/post.aspx?post=4428cdb8-8acc-4588-97d0-57db91482442
Since Jacobs is still around, there must be people on the board who think UT is doing well as an institution. What on earth is their argument? It's not a point of view you can find anywhere else.
With the possible exception of George W. Bush, I've never seen a top official do such an objectively bad job and still get to be in charge.
Yet Another Survey:
Ambition run-amok, clownish machismo, PhD envy, petulance, captain of a goon squad, non-transparent, control freak ...
= (choose only one)
a) Erich Von Stroheim
b) Kim Jung-un
c) Attila the Hun
d) Idi Amin
e) Lloyd “Bully of Bancroft” Jacobs
New business in town:
Jacobs and BOT Enterprises have entered the restaurant business. The new franchise is called
CRONY ISLAND
a) Erich Von Stroheim
b) Kim Jung-un
c) Attila the Hun
d) Idi Amin
e) Lloyd “Bully of Bancroft” Jacobs
Who had the largest empire, spoke multiple languages, and had his leadership secrets published in a book? The other four could have learned from him!
Does anyone know what happened with Mary Jane Erard? The union sent around an email a few hours ago with the statement "is no longer employed by the UTAAUP."
Mile Dowd - Thank you for your courage and clarity. Not being a Senator I tend to overlook efforts being made to restore UT values.
Re AAUP exec director Jane Erard
She was fired - is being sued for misappropriation of funds and is counter-suing the AAUP
http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2013/04/13/UT-union-fires-director-sues-for-50-000.html
Shocked! that's all I can see regarding the MJ/Union news. She's was at UT longer than me and I knew her both as the go-to person for grievances and info on grievances and as a painter! I went to some of her exhibitions. Wish I could believe this was just some kind of misunderstanding.
There was a thing in UT Update about fall semester starting a week earlier, on August 19.
Is that even a change? I think we usually have two full weeks of classes before Labor Day.
It is a change since in following the standard consortium calendar would have pushed final date to submit fall grades to close to Christmas Break.
Folks should read the Blade coverage of the planned event on Bancroft this evening. From 6 to 7 pm, NOW is protesting the ending of the transfer agreements with local abortion clinics. You can take a stand against attacks on women's health and bad university governance in one convenient stop!
Improving the human condition, but women need not apply.
I'm disappointed in Jacobs and Gold, yet again. To not stand up for women in need is cowardly.
I see by the news this morning that Lloyd and Company have decided that they are going to cure cancer. What next?
"I see by the news this morning that Lloyd and Company have decided that they are going to cure cancer. What next?"
Curing UT of the Lloydie-Goldie- Scary syndrome: the kind that damages brains in media, society, and in government; the kind that allows businesses employing thugs like those serving on BOT to exist; the kind that keeps brainfucked customers to do business with such companies; shall I continue? The disease is not only affecting UT but the surrounding community.
flurry of activity on so many fronts and issues at UT this week alone, but the usual bloggers are silent??? Where are the updates and debates??
Re Anon updates and debates -
Can you please give us a quick thumbnail sketch of some of the recent UT activities, issues and happenings to which you are referring?
We have been out of town and a bit out of the loop and would welcome any insider campus updates here.
$10 million in cuts coming to academics near you. How much is left to cut?
So now our president is willing to throw women under the bus? What has Jacobs bargained for in return for not improving the human condition for women?
Put Ben & Co. (a.k.a. The Deanlets and other assorted extraneous high salary pseudo administrators) back to work earning their keep in the departmental trenches where they belong - back at their previous professor salaries and generating real tuition revenues aimed at closing the university budget deficit.
The combination of the pay cuts and added teaching revenues of a couple dozen reassigned pseudo administrators alone would put a huge dent in the university deficit.
Kapoor and others were unceremoniously sent back down to the minors in the past when things went sideways - why should Ben & Co. be any different?
It's called accountability.
for example....the evaluation of the President was successfully completed and results released to faculty (and so much to the naysayers on this board)
Dear Faculty:
Attached please find a copy of the faculty evaluation of Dr. Lloyd Jacobs as conducted by The University of Toledo 2012-2013 Faculty Senate during the period of March 20 – April 2, 2013 . The instrument was developed in 2010 for administrator evaluations and was reviewed in November 2012 by Provost Scarborough, Dr. Michael Dowd and myself. We agreed to add an eleventh question on performance related to external relations. The Center for Creative Instruction was responsible for the web distribution of the evaluation and for the collection and compilation of the data. Dr. Michael Dowd formatted the data for this enclosed report delivered by the 2013-2014 Faculty Senate President Linda Rouillard.
We express here our appreciation for the work performed by the Center for Creative Instruction. Bobbi Vaughan and Brian Szabo were extremely helpful in this process.
I must note, however, that this evaluation process was delayed at one point by some administrative reluctance over this evaluation. At Faculty Senate’s request, Provost Scarborough intervened to facilitate the process.
In addition, I note the numerous expressions of concern from the faculty over confidentiality of this evaluation. In spite of this concern, however, your response rate of approximately 33% (382 out of a possible 1129) is a very good response rate and reflects your concern for our institution.
Thank you again for your time and contribution to this effort.
Sincerely,
Dr. Linda Marie Rouillard
President, Faculty Senate
I am a tenured/tenure-track faculty and I did not receive any report about the evaluation of the administration.
"Ben & Co."? Good one!
Please make all efforts to retain the well-deserved designation for this VP: Ben+COIL (as in College of Incompetent Leadership)! The two go together like horse and carriage...
We can also call them Crony Island Enterprises.
problems problems problems and much to discuss but no one discussing....
budget cuts..UTXNet, Honors College, and YouCollege scheduling courses and sections without academic department approval or oversight....staffing issues....no replacement faculty.....presidental and dean reviews.....more overseas travel....
yes much to discuss......
Quick! Someone send a note to the BOT telling them that a negative evaluation by the Faculty is not a badge of honor. Let them know that at some Universities (most?) Presidents are actually respected by the Faculty (and vice versa)!!!
So, now on to a formal vote of no confidence by the Senate?
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