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What I find surprising about this whole affair over the past month or so is that the administration has not even paid lip service to any difference between tenured and untenured faculty. Perhaps some gestures will be made as this situation unfolds. The administration's lack of concern about tenure in recent years and the financial straits the university seems to be in present an unsettling climate for faculty members.

Date: Sep 1, 2009

Agreed.

The administration also seems in no hurry to present the entire package of cuts so everyone knows what really may or may not happen. Uncertainty and nervousness are not good for Southern Miss.

Date: Sep 1, 2009

If the rationale for cutting out Economics was low number of majors, what is the rationale for cutting out Tech Ed, with much higher numbers?

Date: Sep 2, 2009

I wish I knew what the thinking was behind terminating TOE. It doesn't make much sense to me. Administration says it is numbers but as anyone can see from the article, there are programs with lower numbers than TOEs. I find it interesting that Economics can swing a deal whereas TOE is left standing alone. Is terminating 3 professors the answer to the universities problems?

Date: Sep 2, 2009

The overall problem is we will never be told what all the final cuts are. We will each have pieces to the puzzle and no guide on how they go together.

If the president wants transparency, and if she wants buy-in from faculty, staff, and students, she needs to declare what the cuts are. There is no reason for secrecy.

Date: Sep 2, 2009

Anonymous wrote:

There is no reason for secrecy.

Is that why every poster on this thread except one is posting anonymously? Haven't seen that in a long time.

Date: Sep 2, 2009

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

There is no reason for secrecy.

Is that why every poster on this thread except one is posting anonymously? Haven't seen that in a long time.

We're not hiding from Saunders et.al. We're hiding from that guy with the website. Anything you say will be used against somebody.

Date: Sep 2, 2009

First you need to check the fact. HA has the number wrong or someone feed them the wrong numbers. (surprise, surprise, someone trying to bloat their numbers)
TOE doesn't have 1/2 that many students. 5 minutes of simple research was all it took to check those numbers.

Second
You also have to look at degrees awarded.

Third
Mississippi no longer requires instructors to get TOE and hasn't for a while, so why continue a program that not many want nor need.