Wormfest

A Bird's Eye View of Faculty Governance

Bloggie is in a blue funk, and is not talking to you.

What "Power Struggle?

Today's Independent Collegian reported on a "power struggle" between Faculty Senate and trustees.   Bloggie sees no struggle whatsoever.  Sounds like unconditional surrender by Faculty Senate. Maybe even wormish conformity.  

UT-AAUP Lays Out Options

The following is a cut-and-paste of UT AAUP's most recent bulletin concerning the Jacobs Regime.  Readers might note that President Jacobs' administration earned unambiguously failing grades in the recent poll by Bloggie.  This suggests that one can be a nice guy, but a bad university President.

Step One: Evaluate Dr. Linda Rouillard, UT-AAUP Executive Board Donald K. Wedding, UT-AAUP Executive Board A significant number of faculty have asked the  UT-AAUP to call for a strike against Lloyd Jacobs.  Although we are impressed by the large number of such requests, a strike is not an option at this  time. We are under two collective bargaining  agreements and cannot legally call for a work  action such as a strike.  Informational picketing  is under consideration,but not a strike. Faculty are also calling for a vote of no confidence  on Lloyd Jacobs. This is under consideration.  First, all faculty should participate in the  current evaluation of President Lloyd Jacobs  and other administrators. The turn-out in the  evaluations needs to be strong if we are to consider  a vote of no confidence and picketing. Some faculty apparently do not want to participate in the evaluations because of a Jacobs "fear factor".  This is precisely why faculty need to take Step  One: Evaluate. As a reminder, here is the link that  will take you to the evaluation: http://intranet.utoledo.edu/adminreview/  Please note that the evaluation instrument does  NOT ask any questions related to your specific  college, department, program, or rank. Please  report any problems with access to the evaluation  to  linda.rouillard@utoledo.edu  with the subject  line "admin review problem".

The Day of Reckoning Approaches

See:

http://reason.com/archives/2013/03/19/where-higher-education-went-wrong

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. 

Troika

Buzz. Buzz. 

Administrative Response to Faculty Senate Letter

Bloggie apologizes for the backassward order of this letter, but considering its content and the arguments put forward, this arrangement seems appropriate.