Assoc. Provost Barrett Should Resign
Pres. Jacobs assigned former law professor, John Barrett, the lead in enforcing the Board of Trustees demand that all faculty organizations should add the Supremacy Clause and the Delegation Clause to their constitutions. Not a single one voted to do so.
During the spring, Barrett appeared before the Senate and College Councils to demand this. His tone was threatening. Usually lawyers try to make a persuasive case, but he just seemed to want to rub the faculty’s face in the dirt. Because he could not persuade and could not intimidate the faculty, he was a total failure. He should resign this highly paid position. Alternatively Pres. Jacobs should fire him.
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An update on the progress of revising various constitutions and bylaws was on the agenda of the BOT Trusteeship and Governance Committee Meeting this past Tuesday (June 3rd), anyone aware of how that went and any follow up action to be taken to the next full BOT meeting on June 17th?
A surgeon and a lawyer???? Which end of the ambulance are they at? Yo, Barrett -- threat begets threat. Someone might look into your finances...
2012 Salaries of Vice Provosts (toledobladedata.com)
Barrett $163,728.93
Gutteridge $294,824.29
Komuniecki $225,600.00
Gosetti $162,832.00
Pryor $164,062.00
Traband $164,582.00
Cruickshank No listing
Spann $ 92,692.00
(interim)
Total $1,268,320.00
No idea what other "perks" these high paid executives receive.
Interesting piece on a megalomaniac university president (not Llodie, but not far from Toledo...):
http://ideas.time.com/2013/06/06/viewpoint-gordon-gee-should-have-gone-long-ago/
Thanks for the link! "a metastasizing cadre of university administrators"???
I love the description for our shiny cadre since this includes the tumors of Ohio higher education: Jacobs, Gold, Scarborough, and the board of turds (just to keep the biological nature of their name in line with the metastasizing nature of our leadership). One problem: given the modest earnings (compared to Gordy Gee), our maffia leaders have yet to get close to metastasize. In comparison with GG, our cadre's modest income comes from hard work, right? Cruikshank's is so low he is too shy to report...or is part of that coming from Apple???
Remove these administrators from payroll, and we will be financially safer.
Jacobs has been around, what, 8? 9? years. Is UT better off? are more students attending UT? NO. Are better qualified students attending UT? NO. Is UT financially on better footing? NO. Does anyone even remember the great UT Solar Panel Salvation Co? How much money was lost on that venture? Is UT still paying costs?
"With the spread of acceptance among the tenure-stream faculty of academic-capitalist values and behaviors, and acquiescence to an increasingly managerial role with respect to the contingent, there is little evidence of anything that resembles an oppositional culture. Indeed, it has become increasingly difficult to speak of anything resembling faculty culture apart from the competitive, market-based, high-performance habitus designed for them by management."
p. 13, in Mark Bousquet, How the University Works. New Yorkand London: New York University Press, 2008.
Two surgeons and an accountant running this place. It would be nice to have at least one of the triple threat with real experience as an academic. That won't happen.
"Two surgeons and an accountant running this place" and pretending to be CEOs. If Columbus wanted universities in Ohio to be economic engines in their respective areas, then Columbus should instruct the BOTs for those areas to hire Presidents with successful experience, not people who come in and try to learn it on the fly.
faculty still drive the economic engine - they teach classes. If they understood that, they would band together. Unfortuately, most faculty are not strong enough in defense to project an offense, so sorry. R
re: salaries of Vice Provost, ask in a FOIA to include any stipends, bonuses or special payments during the year, include the Vice Presidents.
RE: salaries
Be sure to ask for the payments by the UT Physicians group. They will claim this is private which is why it is not released but there is a "tax" on physicians to pay the huge bonuses for Jacobs and Gold and who knows about Scarborough. I have heard it is in the $200k range. Even physicians in the group who are taxed can't find out how much we are giving them.
"Two surgeons and an accountant running this place. It would be nice to have at least one of the triple threat with real experience as an academic."
What did you think this is -- a university? It's got the DNAs of Lloydie, Goldie, Scary, and the Horde of Turds. Now that they are dumbing the Honors program down, imagine a glorified high school that needs no brains to complete. It is so dumb, even 2 surgeons and an accountant can handle teaching that crowd!
Got iPad???
Shop for one at Best Buys and you'll graduate with A+, courtesy of the new honors dean!
"Two surgeons and an accountant". It took me a while but I see the connection. All are comfortable with cutting.
What we need is an engineer or an architect to lead this place. Someone who is more comfortable with building(and not just with buildings).
"What we need is an engineer or an architect to lead this place."
We need a real leader -- an intellectual -- who listens to engineers, architects, humanists, artists, scientists, medical professionals alike. We need a strong faculty senate, not this Supreme Council of Thugs.
El Gordo's embarrassing alliance with right-wing interests has us getting national coverage once again:
http://chronicle.com/article/As-States-Try-to-Curb/139831/?cid=wb&utm_source=wb&utm_medium=en
I understand that Jacobs asked the Board for more time to deal with the revisions of constitutions and bylaws of the colleges, Senate and Graduate Council. So it appears the threat to dissolve groups who did not add the two clauses is on hold, at least for now.....
Anyone know more or have details?
Anonymous 2:37
Cruickshank's salary is $220,000. Nice work if you can get it.
Dan Johnson is supposedly retiring. Will he come back?
Did you know there is a surgeon on this campus who makes about $2 million?
Retiring from what?
"Ghostwalker"
"Cruickshank's salary is $220,000.
Did you know there is a surgeon on this campus who makes about $2 million?"
Will these obscene abusers of higher education even get on the IRS BOLO shit list?
"I myself presented on the growing effort to outsource the assessment of teaching candidates to the huge for-profit Pearson conglomerate."
Have you read the latest UT-AAUP Bulletin?
UTXNET World Campus Graduate College? The one with the Apple deal? What bonuses will apple give out to these admins like Pryor, Cruikshank, Scarborough, etc since this is not public income, they can hide it. They are going to run down the graduate programs like they do with the Honors college (the new Best Buy Campus). I bet Jesup W. Scott is turning around in his grave, but he should resurrect and scare the life out of these pseudo-academics.
Has anyone seen the figures on UTs administrative expenditures, how they compare to other universities in Ohio & nationally? how they have risen over the last few years? My understanding is it is common at least at UT to have administrators teach a class occasionally so as to move portions of their salaries into different bookkeeping categories, but has anyone seen what UT is doing? How many admins teach? I mean is UT moving outrageous sums of money into admin teaching so as to mask the amount of money they receive as admins? For example, Dean Barlowe is teaching a class in the Fall. Is it part of her contract or is she receiving additional compensation for it? And if it is part of her contract, how does that effect what is reported by UT as administrative salaries and teaching salaries?
I believe the public available salaries (also as listed on the Board reports) is their total salary, Deans and others are not receiving additional pay to teach nor are portions of their salaries being moved from administrative accounts to department or academic accounts. A college budget will also show the total dean pay allocated under the college office account.
More about Pearson:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-singer/pearson-education-new-york-testing-_b_1850169.html
"An agreed-upon plan of study" = STEM. "Strengthsquest" - has anyone bothered to look at this (it's operated by Gallup)? "StrengthsQuest is a student development and engagement program designed to help high school and college students achieve success in academics, career, and life. Each StrengthsQuest book contains a unique ID code that provides access to the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment and the StrengthsQuest Web site."
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