2006-2007 Faculty Losses - USM Forum -- Message Board

Curmudgeon · Status: Offline

2006-2007 Faculty Losses

Southern Belle · Status: Offline

Brent Wolfe, Assistant Professor Therapeutic Recreation - HPR - Georgia University

qwerty · Status: Offline

Georgia University? No such place in the USA.
Do you mean?

Georgia State University
University of Georgia
Georgia Southern University
etc....

Interested onlooker · Status: Offline

A friend told me that there are around 170 searches going on now. Is this correct? If so, how does that compare to a "normal" year--the likes of which we haven't seen since 2001-02?

Incredulous · Status: Offline

IIRC faculty attrition in the Eighties and Nineties ran about 50-60 a year. What has happened over the past five years is that so many experienced faculty have left that many positions are now filled with junior or temporary appointments. Those people are the most likely to move as compared to people with roots. Thus, many positions have been filled twice. A senior person is replaced by a junior person who leaves and must be replaced. The Thames era has had a negative effect on the rank and age structure of the faculty, and the instability will persist for a number of years. This effect is particulary evident in high demand areas like nursing and business. The rebuilding process will take awhile.

stephen judd · Status: Offline

In the spring of 2005 (ironically, at our last spring meeting of the faculty senate on the Gulf Coast at the Long Beach Campus) we saw figures provided by the administration which would bear out the massive loss of faculty at the professor and associate professor level. Although the figures we saw did not fully seem to jive with our own experience and the lists we were keeping, they certainly bore testimony to the truth that the ration of senior to junior faculty has shifted massively. And the ratio of adjuncts and instructors has significantly increased in relation to tenure-track faculty. While it is true that we reached a bump in which many asnior faculty were due to retire, it is also true that a large number of assistant and associate professors left during the period 03-05. Although this is not provable, most of us are aware of the large number of people whose leaving the university was either initiated or accelerated by the depth of unhappiness they experienced under the (at that time) new regime. Whatever the exit interviews may have said -- we know that the administration's way of doing business had a profound impact on faculty turnover. And yes, Incredulous is correct -- we have certainly had more than our share of short term assistant professors in recent years.

-- Edited by stephen judd at 12:15, 2007-03-07

Southern Belle · Status: Offline

Georgia Southern University

Southern Belle · Status: Offline

Patricia Malone - Oboe - School of Music - retiring

Southern Belle · Status: Offline

Come on, gang! I find it hard to believe that only two faculty members are leaving as of today (03-09-2007).

Ghost of Carl Sagan · Status: Offline

Robert Turner, instructor, Sociology retiring this year

info · Status: Offline

Jane Boudreaux, former dean of College of Health and Human Sciences, retiring this academic year

Ken Panton, dean of Honors College, retiring this academic year

Southern Belle · Status: Offline

Kick!

There has to be more faculty and staff leaving campus this year.

Gone but forgotten · Status: Offline

Melissa McCarty, Development Officer, Du Bard School - Corporate consulting

Dr VanNostren · Status: Offline

Curmudgeon wrote:

For some reason we have not kept track of faculty losses this year on the message board, and yet people continue to leave. I heard a few days ago that three people are leaving Marketing. This thread could be used to list departures.

One of the reasons that cece stopped doing the job was that cece was one of a handful of noms used by a particular individual whose true identity, had (s)he been forced to use only one screen name, would have been easily discovered. So when registration was forced, cece stopped posting.

Moderator · Status: Offline

Nonsense. That person could have contacted me or the webmaster via private message and something could have been worked out.

LVN · Status: Offline

Dr VanNostren wrote:

One of the reasons that cece stopped doing the job was that cece was one of a handful of noms used by a particular individual whose true identity, had (s)he been forced to use only one screen name, would have been easily discovered. So when registration was forced, cece stopped posting.

All anybody had to do was register with one or more different email addresses. A mod or WM could see if they were from the same computer, but as long as there was no abuse, there shouldn't have been any problem with somebody having more than one ID. I imagine the WM knows who half the people on here are any way, and nobody's been outed have they? It sounds like cece didn't listen when several of us were trying to explain this before. As for registration being "forced" -- sorry, this is still a private board and the WM makes the rules. Cece or anybody else could easily have set up their own board, as I did in order to show how easy it was, and s/he could have posted anything s/he wanted to.

Dr VanNostren · Status: Offline

Moderator wrote:

Nonsense. That person could have contacted me or the webmaster via private message and something could have been worked out.

Easy to say nonsense now. The "sock puppet" witch hunt drove quite a few valuable posters away.

-- Edited by Dr VanNostren at 11:24, 2007-03-26

-- Edited by Dr VanNostren at 11:28, 2007-03-26

asdf · Status: Offline

"sock puppet" witch hunt?

LVN · Status: Offline

asdf wrote:

"sock puppet" witch hunt?

A sock puppet is a secondary identity on a message board. Dr. V. seems to have overlooked my comments above. As I understand it, the board was being overrun with spam (some still seems to get through every now and then) and the moderator(s) got tired of spending hours every night policing the board. If some posters didn't trust the registration process, that's a shame, but like I said above, and demonstrated with my own board, it is extremely easy to set up one of these message boards and post anything you want to and have all the identities you want to have.

As for the term "witch hunt" -- what part of "private board" is unclear? It's no more a witch hunt than is monitoring who comes into your house.

truth4usmAH · Status: Offline

LVN is exactly right....the webmaster has demonstrated his/her trust with several of the posters (who have registered under several different noms) that I know of...this is not a credible reason as to why someone should have stopped posting on the board, but to each his/her own.

Truth