It is my understanding that Christy is moving to COH as their fundraiser. I don't know if she will be replaced, but COAL has another associate dean. Perhaps associate dean's money is coming from the fact that Tom Lansford will be chair of political science.

In any event, the fundraiser position in COH paid better.

Amy Young

His name is Steve Moser. He is very good with organization and with paper work. I would not trust him though. He carries grudges and his judgment often is flawed. He will do a good job of getting Pood's work done though.

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Originally posted by: Toot your horn
"His name is Steve Moser. He is very good with organization and with paper work. I would not trust him though. He carries grudges and his judgment often is flawed. He will do a good job of getting Pood's work done though."

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So Pood has pulled another Shelby maneuver and hired someone without a search?  Can we say lackey?

If EP asked the COAL chairs if he should do a search and they said no, then shame on the chairs. I guess they are now so beholden to the great god, EP that whatever EP wants, they bless it. Or... are they now all without backbones? Fearful for their positions? Pre Thames regime, at least in LA, chairs would often disagree with the dean and take him to task as would faculty members; but this was usually done with mutual respect and certainly no fear of job loss.

Times have changed at USM and not for the good of the institution. It is dangerous when a regime like this one takes over, and they do not value human beings. They really do not put the institution's best interest first but rather what they personally can gain from being in power. And most of the deans and higher administrators are on a huge power trip.

amazed--before you go off on a thames rant and get "warm fuzzies" for the good old days, you need to remember that in the old CLA searches were non-existent for assistant deans. our former dean was told at one point he had to have a search for an assistant dean (when he had, and most everyone else knew, a favorite). to show his contempt for the process, he interviewed the second person (only two applied), the one he didn't intend to hire, while the other person was already moving into the assistant dean's office (the old CLA office suite). that's a "real" search.

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Originally posted by: Toot your horn
"His name is Steve Moser. He is very good with organization and with paper work. I would not trust him though. He carries grudges and his judgment often is flawed. He will do a good job of getting Pood's work done though."

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BIG ALERT!!!!! Moser is a big time advocate of ONLINE COURSES. He will get along well with Malone and his University of Phoenix vision.

Moser is also, sorry to say, not very smart. Expect memos from him full of bad writing and typos.

He also has no sense of humor. None.

This is the worst news for CoAL I've heard in a long time.

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Originally posted by: Amy Young
"In any event, the fundraiser position in COH paid better."

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Why is it that a staff position -- which I assume a fundraiser is -- pays better in one college than another? I understand that professors who can make beaucoups outside money doing consulting somehow have to be paid more than professors who are stuck working on grants & that both of those categories must have base salaries higher than professors who do mostly teaching & "unfunded" research. And I understand that professors who have to read essays must be paid less than those who can grade their exams with Scantron machines. But if USM is this well-oiled ultra-efficient business operation, how come the colleges still set salaries for support positions? One would think that a college fundraiser is a college fundraiser.

OK. I think I'm getting the picture. Fundraisers in colleges where it's "easy" to raise money need to be paid more than those in colleges where it's "hard" to raise money.

Of course, I've never understood why kindergarten teachers in general are paid less than college professors & I certainly don't understand why middle school teachers don't get "danger pay" like the Navy give submariners.

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If the new job pays this person better, then good for them!