Grains of Truth

Another Denunciation of the Jacobs' Gang

Lori Edgeworth, former UT Director of Student Involvement who was "laid off" by the Jacobs administration after 26 years of service, has written to the Independent Collegian about "lies" the Jacobs administration told her. Here is the link:

http://www.independentcollegian.com/forum/letter-to-the-board-and-ut-community-1.2201618

President Jacobs Discusses Future of College of Arts and Sciences

"We will bury academic integrity!"

Thus We Speak to Our Administrators

Job Search?

The following was submitted to Bloggie with a request that its author remain anonymous:


Job Searches
I'm puzzled: how is it that UT can start interviewing for a basketball coach withing two weeks of a "resignation," yet we still have someone who is essentially an interim dean in Arts and Sciences and there has been NO announcement, not even a suggestion that the search for a permanent dean has progressed at all? In fact, the whole matter is insulting.

From Silo-Babble to Departmental Dissolution and Merger

Provost Haggett has launched an insidious campaign of “silo-babble” across our main campus academic forums. Flunkie spokespersons for the UT Strategic Plan Committee (last seen slouching towards Bethlehem) are meanwhile busy spreading this manure pile across the main campus. The “silo” meme in academic discourse derives from a business-model notion that disparages “information silos” for impeding structural changes perceived as necessary to accomplish managerial efficiencies, mainly cost-cutting. See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_silo

The prime and targeted examples of her perceived “silos” impeding the rapid progress of business-like restructuring at the University of Toledo and in the College of Arts and Sciences are its traditional academic departments. "These have to go!" she decrees. This means that the deliberate dissolution of existing departments through mergers into “schools” by administrative fiat is on the near horizon. Gird your loins. The battle is upon us. It’s now or never. Actively resist all silo-babble and its intended consequences. Unite and fight to save our institution of public higher education, our College of Arts and Sciences, our academic departments, and the vital flesh, blood and voice of an empowered and free-thinking tenured professoriate to teach quality-conscious students in our main campus classrooms.

Rumors

Rumor has it that administrative types are continuing to duck the Faculty Senate. Rumor has it that Freedom of Information Requests for budget information are being ducked as well. Rumor has it that our "transparent administration" is anything but transparent.