How to get input, academic style.
A couple of years ago our administration here at AppState, as it likes to be called, rammed a new general ed reform down our throats after some very careful consultation with us. No, that's actually the term they used.
I read this little article today about the National Park Service consulting the public after their plans for the security of the Washington Monument with a distinct feeling of deja-vu all over again.
Read 'em an weep, if you are a fellow faculty member.
for some strange reason the administrator who inflicted this reform on us immediately left for a better paying job somewhere else. Before the foo-foo hit the rotary device.
I shouldn't complain: the admin has done much worse than this. Recently.
Labels: academics, personal stuff, twits on stilts
posted by Clemens @ 10:57 AM
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Sooo familiar! 1.Elicit input, 2. make the plans, 3. look at the input a month later, and 4. hold a series of "feedback" meetings where no one takes notes. Well, all those on-the-record statements and notes can be so pesky and inconvenient. With no paper trail, the Panners can always claim no one warned them it wouldn't work...
I think we are going to be allowed once again to input our input Monday on a personnel issue that has already been decided.
But I could be wrong.
There aren't a lot of options at this stage, and neither is optimal. It's a lousy, unfair situation. Unless her lawyer has a better suggestion, we're stuck with supporting her on one or both of the options the admin has come up with. And from what I understand, while her lawyer isn't thrilled, her doesn't have any better ideas.
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