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Date: Jan 15, 2006

Black Friday

Date: Jan 15, 2006

How are the new colleges doing? Is criminal justice okay in SciTech? How about the arts and letters merger? If they are doing well, running smoothly, more efficiently?

Date: Jan 15, 2006

How is nursing doing now that the beautiful, spacious, and convenient Albertson's space was jerked from under their feet?

Date: Jan 15, 2006

Long gone wrote:

How are the new colleges doing? Is criminal justice okay in SciTech? How about the arts and letters merger? If they are doing well, running smoothly, more efficiently?

Check the number of faculty in CJ. They are a skeleton of what they once were. And, running a Ph.D. program. I am certain that the oldtimers who built that department must be heartbroken. But, that's what comes from watching too much t.v. and thinking that criminal justice is forensic science.

Date: Jan 15, 2006

Has it been three years already? Yay Thames!

Yes Quarter

Date: Jan 15, 2006

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give yes quarter, and waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Date: Jan 15, 2006

Memories wrote:

It has been three years (the Friday before Martin Luther King day) since SFT and a few insiders reorganized the university without any input from those who best understood the nuts and bolts of the workings of the University of Southern Mississippi. That dismantling unleashed nothing but chaos. We still reel from its after-effect.

Who were the insiders? Are they still around? Were they rewarded?

Date: Jan 15, 2006

Trollicus wrote:

Has it been three years already? Yay Thames!

Only three years and all the new deans brought to campus have already applied for jobs elsewhere, the university has been on SACS probation, the university has fallen to the bottom tier in U.S. News, nearly half the faculty has departed, the nursing national board pass rate fell to the lowest in the state, and enrollment was falling before Katrina. That's quite a list of accomplishments in only three years. Yeah team!

Date: Jan 15, 2006

I won't forget that day anytime soon. One of the people being "asked to reapply for their job" walked by in tears on the way to Bennett -- saying "it really is true; it really is true." You can argue with what some of the deans did back then, and many of us had a good argument or two with the deans. But you knew that they cared; you knew that they were (at least the ones I knew) good people. And they were treated horribly. Some good people suffered -- and we have yet to recover.