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Faculty questions pay raise method
By Rachel Leifer
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060506/NEWS01/605060302/1002

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C.L.--Evaluation forms worry USM faculty


http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060506/NEWS/605060353/1001/NEWS



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"If I just count the number of publications, I have no information about the quality," Doty said, adding that in conversations with the provost and CFO about business faculty, he intends to rely on internal performance evaluation documents that are regularly produced according to the Faculty Handbook."


So Doty is the only dean to speak up.  Pood is interviewing and Gandy has no reason to speak since all of the resources are going into CoST.  What about the other deans?



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Maybe the paper did not contact them?

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So Doty is the only dean to speak up. Pood is interviewing and Gandy has no reason to speak since all of the resources are going into CoST. What about the other deans?

While Doty spoke up, he is all hat and no cattle. The raise process he uses is exactly like SFT's. A chosen few get special treatment while the others get the scraps.

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Cossack wrote:
So Doty is the only dean to speak up. Pood is interviewing and Gandy has no reason to speak since all of the resources are going into CoST. What about the other deans?

While Doty spoke up, he is all hat and no cattle. The raise process he uses is exactly like SFT's. A chosen few get special treatment while the others get the scraps.


And how would you do it if you were czar, comrade?

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And how would you do it if you were czar, comrade?

I would follow the process as laid out by the handbook and existing college criteria. After finishing a first draft, I would review the decisions to ferret out any decisions that suggest a bias against the people I dislike. The mark of a good administrator is one who can remove the personal from professional decisions. Lastly, I would remind myself that a college administrator is not a "czar". The decisions would be much easier for you since I am sure that you like everyone.

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Cossack wrote:

I would follow the process as laid out by the handbook and existing college criteria. After finishing a first draft, I would review the decisions to ferret out any decisions that suggest a bias against the people I dislike. The mark of a good administrator is one who can remove the personal from professional decisions. Lastly, I would remind myself that a college administrator is not a "czar". The decisions would be much easier for you since I am sure that you like everyone.


Unfortunately, the whole motivation behind the CoB evaluation system is to reward the good and loyal servants who do the administrators' bidding, irrespective of their teaching, research, and service credentials. This is how the CoB ends up with the indistinguishable mess that is the annual evaluation process. What else should one expect from a dean who has never earned tenure or a promotion via traditional channels? Deals are made, favorite sons are rewarded, and dissenters are punished. Good thing there aren't any academic gulags.

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Yeah, top tier schools like Syracuse just give tenure away.

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Podunk wrote:
Yeah, top tier schools like Syracuse just give tenure away.


Or they are willing to accept legal settlements. Whichever you choose.

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Cossack wrote:
I would follow the process as laid out by the handbook and existing college criteria. After finishing a first draft, I would review the decisions to ferret out any decisions that suggest a bias against the people I dislike. The mark of a good administrator is one who can remove the personal from professional decisions. Lastly, I would remind myself that a college administrator is not a "czar". The decisions would be much easier for you since I am sure that you like everyone.


An excellent answer, comrade, except that I would avoid showing bias against the people I dislike by having them sent to the gulag outright.

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Forgetting to add that many folks regard "the gulag" as being located in an area bounded on the west by North 40th, on the north by West 4th, on the east by U.S. 49, and on the south by Hardy ...

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Even if the guidelines in the faculty handbook were written by God, they're administered by, well administrators.  After 35 years in higher education, I'm about to quit because I'm tired of working for the type of person that is now the typical college administrator.  Over the years, these people have gone from the nice but mildly imcompetent to a class of ethically challenged people that I wouldn't choose to voluntarily associate with.  USM is just a particularly virulent example of a disease that seems almost universal.  There are exceptions to this broad brush, but it seems they are becoming more rare.  And it doesn't seem to be getting better.  Administration seems to be more and more becoming an integrity free zone in most places.  Expecting a good outcome from a "merit" pay increase from this crowd is almost delusional.  If you can't help them advance their careers in some way, you're obviously a POS.  I'm so old that at this point my merit and my salary don't much matter.  However, being treated with contempt for giving at least a small damn about students is pretty depressing.  The barbarians are no longer at the gates, they run the place(s).


Question:  Would you buy a used car from any adminstrator you've met in the last 10 years?



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local prof wrote:
Question:  Would you buy a used car from any adminstrator you've met in the last 10 years?


Answer: Yes. [As a matter of fact, I know a fair number of administrators who would probably be a lot more effective selling used cars than they are running schools!]

Counter Question: Would you buy a used university from a car salesman?



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Answer: Yes. [As a matter of fact, I know a fair number of administrators who would probably be a lot more effective selling used cars than they are running schools!]



Good point.  However, some of them couldn't pass an ethics test administered by an average preowned vehicle sales manager.



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