Furloughs????

Still waiting on furloughs. Just a quick thought. If furloughs are expected next year, don't we have a budget process that should be used to avoid them?

Intellectual Capital

Roundtable Sinks In

Rumors

Are you all still waiting for the plan? Let's build our own.



1. Furlough the BOT as irrelevant. The savings in meals alone should be a significant aid.



2. Furlough anyone with a VP title and above.



3. Furlough anyone who spends more time in meetings than teaching.




4. Furlough anyone who has time to write and circulate long word-choked petitions denouncing other people's freedom of speech.




5. Furlough the CAS dean, who is only around part-time anyway.





How long should the furloughs last? Hmmmm, let me think. Some have interpreted the Mayan calander as saying the world will end December 21, 2012 so I suggest the furloughs end December 22,2012.

Nuggets of Truth

Furloughs

Has anyone seen the plan yet?

Question: How many administrators does it take to change a light bulb?

Answer: Not known. One custodian can do the physical labor but an unknown number of administrators will spend days trying to blame the blog for the light going out. Remember, if the lights go out around here, we had no control of the budget.

Council Meeting

The A & S Council met yesterday to give an airing to faculty views on the Round Table Report. Before going into that let me thank those who participated in this professional discussion. There were significant differences of opinion and people managed those without throwing tables, chairs or other faculty at one another. I would also like to thank those who wrote the report. An extraordinary amount of time and effort has gone into this document. The problem is, I just don't like the document. I was a member of the original round table. I attended the fall meetings of the "advanced round table" as a representative of A & S Council. I just do not see this as a visionary document.

A lot of faith has been placed in the twin concepts of integrative learning and technology. Historically, I just don't see those as having provided any great changes in American higher education. Both will take resources. As many of you know, resources make a college. With them, over time, you can develop a reputation as a quality institution. Without them, students will begin to believe they are attending a community college. Resources need to be used to recruit and retain high quality faculty and students. How one organizes or even teaches the curriculum rarely determines the quality of an institution.