âtainted search process.â Pretty common in todayâs world.
And so the privatization of the commons continues. Amazing what a bit of billionaireâs pocket change can buy these days.
Hereâs hoping the faculty protests do some good, maybe even get him ousted. Sad how few students see protest as worth their time these days.
meanwhile, budget cuts that have severely affected students, staff and faculty continue.
I keep seeing things like this all over the place. Universities announce construction plans for new buildings while cutting tenured positions and making up for them with adjunct positions.
And even if these expensive institution presidents get ousted early, they get a massive severance that turns the heads of every staff and faculty member who has to fight for better pay while theyâre still working there. Itâs like higher education is trying to catch up with corporate America for obscene CEO pay and parachutes.
Wow! His four adult children all have âadvanced degreesâ!
Whatever theyâre paying him, itâs not enough!
(Ngah, canât find a sarcastic smiley in the editor⊠assume thereâs one in there somewhere?)
The blame intellectual inbreeding among the CEO class. Theyâve synergized their way into a religion where their exalted position is evidence in itself of the aptitude that merits the position.
This reminds me of the time a university chancellor met with staff to tell them about benefits being cut. He then asked if anyone had any questions. The first question was, âWill your benefits be cut as well?â The chancellor immediately said, âIâm not taking anymore questions.â
Itâs too bad because I would have liked to ask, How stupid do you have to be unprepared for that question?
Have you read most student conduct policies? Definitions of misconduct are incredibly vague. I wouldnât risk it. Not with the amount of debt Iâm taking on.
Itâs sort of funny to hear that after that Atlantic article a few months back about how students protest everything.
For the record, I think you are right and the Atlantic has become a Trolling rag, but that is just like my opinion, man.
âHow little do you have to care?â is the real question.
This bullshit.
And this bullshit. My last Uni job had an absolute shit-ton of adjuncts who were paid, as you said, starvation wages, while the rest of the faculty got to listen to the garble garble nonsense of a private consulting company telling us how great it was gonna be that we now had yearly peer evaluations in addition to the evals done by boss and bossâs boss. Never mind that, as a librarian, I was being âpeer evaluatedâ by a secretary (among others) in another building who had precisely zero idea of what I did or how I did it.
Of course, I was also evaluated on my Xtian attitude and dressâŠwhich were categories that did not treat me well. I mean, you tack one cow tongue to someoneâs office doorâŠ
I suppose, capitalism being what it is, that lots of people took one glance at the endowment funds Universities tout and gleefully rubbed their hands together while forming their own âacademic consulting firmâ.
As far as students protesting, when was the last time a university made a major policy change that would impact their bottom line significantly because of student outrage (Iâm not talking about offering vegetarian and vegan meal plans)? Unless there is huge bad publicity involved, students generally get patted on the head, told âArenât you just darling?â and ignored. Voting with your feet is usually not an option, because pulling out of school and transferring is a huge mess.
Consultancies are another way for the insiders to skim off the top. If they actually produce anything useful, itâs mainly by accident.
An additional question is, how many students are going to decide to apply elsewhere because of this? Of course as long as the school is turning applicants away the administrationâs answer is going to be âWhy should we care?â
I wonder about the effectiveness of faculty protests too. They might be in a better position to vote with their feet, but only slightly, and I doubt those adjuncts are going anywhere.
GSU is on a mad buying spree, but last year, I think was the last year that faculty got pay raises in about 5 years⊠and GTAs just got a pay raise for the first time (well, in my department at least) for the first time in a decade.
How has the Atlantic become a âtrolling ragâ?
Last thing I can think of is apartheid divestment. Just around when todayâs undergrads were born.
âŠ[his resume] is riddled with typosâŠ
Minor point, but: I couldnât find one typo.
If it were âriddled,â I would think it should have 3+, not 0.
Edit: So, yeah, he has typos. My typo spidey sense is shot. So used to seeing itâs/its and your/youâre on reddit i missed BM/IBM and Digorno/DiGorno.
He must have spellchecked it since. But letâs see:
Executing Strategy, LLC
Should be a comma after the LLC to be consistent with the other entries.
Confidentially advise several public
Should be past tense.
Chair of âBuilding New Businesses in Established Organizations. Member of Faculty I/T Advisory Committee.
Missing close-quote. Information Technology is abbreviated I.T. or IT.
organization. Led BMâs strategy unit that was responsible for
He means IBM.
Pizza, Digiorno, Budget Gourmet, and Lenders Bagels
Missing period after âBagelsâ at end of sentence. Also I think the G is capitalized in DiGiorno, but Iâm not sure since I donât like puffy supermarket pizza.
Articles section: At least in the U.S., commas belong inside quoted titles, but technically thatâs a style error, not a series of identical typos.
Guess he didnât revise it after all! Letâs give him a pass on the hideous formatting and abundance of poorly-written corporate-speak bullshit, since he does have an MBA. Your rĂ©sumĂ© should absolutely be the most proofed document you ever print out. Proofread it three times, hire a professional consultant or find a friendly desperate English major to go over it again⊠But you donât really have to bother with any of that little-people stuff when the job is a foregone conclusion, do you?
Good post, it explains alot.
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Harreld led Boston Chicken. Everyone says âMarketâ but it was Boston Chicken, which he led thru an IPO, and later went broke, resurrected as Boston Market. I think that is funnier.
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The search is now at over 300,000 to Parker Executive Search that brought U Minn a perverted AD, and lots of other goofy searches. Those guys at Parker crack everyone up. Especially funny is that they store official state information on private servers which they refuse to divulge. I mean, could anyone parody Hillary Clinton any better?
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TIER is (in Trumps words) 'beautiful. The Regents hired Deloitte for 3.5 million, to come up with strategy to save the Iowa schools money. You have to destroy the village, you know, to save it.
But then, someone at Deloitte because of (does finger quotes) confidentiality issues got a little miffed at the BOR, so they are suing the Iowa BOR; The Iowa board released some proprietary info of Deloitte â like their lunch menu or something. I think John Gresham wrote this.
The Board fired Deloitte; however in an effort to save even more money hired Chazey Partners. Of course that is a play on words âCrazy Partnersâ. Funny. But get this, they hired Huron Consulting Group. A little obvious there: Urine, Huron. Not funny.
Things arenât done yet. To save EVEN MORE MONEY the board hired/fired KH Consulting, then hired Pappas Consulting Group.
Without debating irony, you have to love a board that hires multiple consultants for millions and millions of dollars to save nickels and dimes. This series is going to run on longer than Game of Thrones.
After hiring a new President who will be able to stratigize and communicatize with everyone, the BOR hired Terri Goren of Atlanta-based Goren & Associates to oversee the UI communication and marketing divisions, at about 400,000 a year.
Someone really worked on all the hilarious twists and turns of this script. To think of how much money is (NOT) being saved with all these high priced consultants, screwed-up searches, rump committees and all, is brilliant comedic entertainment.
