tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18155604.post3602258841181082570..comments2023-10-17T10:21:11.698-06:00Comments on The Clutter Museum: Faculty self-interest trumps collegiality at the University of CaliforniaLeslie M-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02434392840359276805noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18155604.post-64348760957611801432010-08-13T18:09:42.765-06:002010-08-13T18:09:42.765-06:00Self-serving interests of UC Berkeley Chancellor B...Self-serving interests of UC Berkeley Chancellor Birgeneau and Provost Breslauer trump the collegiality of UC. You Bet! Sorry Tale of Malfeasance in the Chancellor’s Office at UC Berkeley: easily grasped by the public, lost on University of California’s leadership. The UC Berkley budget gap has grown to $150 million, & still the Chancellor is spending money that isn't there on $3,000,000 consultants. His reasons range from the need for impartiality to requiring the consultants "thinking, expertise, & new knowledge". <br />Does this mean that the faculty & management of UC Berkeley – flagship campus of the greatest public system of higher education in the world - lack the knowledge, integrity, impartiality, innovation, skills to come up with solutions? Have they been fudging their research for years? The consultants will glean their recommendations from faculty interviews & the senior management that hired them; yet $ 150 million of inefficiencies and solutions could be found internally if the Chancellor & Provost Breslauer were doing the work of their jobs (This simple point is lost on UC’s leadership). <br />The victims of this folly are Faculty and Students. $ 3 million consultant fees would be far better spent on students & faculty. <br />There can be only one conclusion as to why inefficiencies & solutions have not been forthcoming from faculty & staff: Chancellor Birgeneau has lost credibility & the trust of the faculty & Academic Senate leadership (C. Kutz, F. Doyle). Even if the faculty agrees with the consultants' recommendations - disagreeing might put their jobs in jeopardy - the underlying problem of lost credibility & trust will remain.<br />Contact your representatives in Sacramento: tell them of the hefty self-serving $’s being spent by UC Berkeley Chancellor Birgeneau & Provost Breslauer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18155604.post-42436617427382173232009-11-04T08:58:21.893-07:002009-11-04T08:58:21.893-07:00The most hilarious aspect of Scull's foolish l...The most hilarious aspect of Scull's foolish letter is that, by his own logic, his position - indeed, his entire department - would be amongst the first cut! According to most external rankings, UCSD's sociology department is rated fairly low, well below Irvine's, for example. I think the perfect justice would be if this twit got precisely what he asked for, and was laid off.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18155604.post-76037615099623272752009-07-21T14:36:39.235-06:002009-07-21T14:36:39.235-06:00Arrogant bastard.
Does that about sum it up?
I ...Arrogant bastard. <br /><br />Does that about sum it up?<br /><br />I can't believe that anyone would talk about closing whole campuses so that a few elite schools wouldn't have to make cuts. Does Scull miss the point that the primary mission of state universities is to educate the state's citizens? Obviously, he does.ScienceWomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11252480538852802610noreply@blogger.com