[Herky] President

[Gwen McNatt]

I can certainly see that perspective and I know you are a wonderful teacher
and researcher  but I am an administrator in a academic setting and have
spent many years as a student and now have two college students. Our
universities, particularly state universities, are often very poorly run.
The unbelievable escalation of tuition over the past two decades is
unconscionable.  I am frequently dismayed by the inefficiency and utter
lack of accountability displayed by both admistrative folk and instructors
alike. At both colleges that my kids went to last year, they had several
classes in which they had no grades at all at mid term. Another instructor
(not at Iowa) changed the grading criteria after finals and when my
daughter tried to protest it quoting the actual faculty manual, she was
pretty much blown off. Of course there is the age old book rip-off.  I
could write a book on issues in my doctoral program. Higher education will
not survive if it continues in the same old ways. I think someone from
outside the club may need to get things on the right track, like Mitch
Daniels at Purdue. Maybe this guy is not the right one but there needs to
be change. Just to end on a positive note, by far Iowa is one of the best
schools to deal with on all levels.

Gwen
On Sep 23, 2015 5:37 PM, "Jayant Rajgopal" <jay.rajgopal at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Unfortunately Gwen, business men with no academic experience or background
> don't LET the deans manage scholarly activities!
> On a side note, I'm not a dean or even a dept. chair, but I have been a
> professor at a Research 1 school for over thirty years - I am firmly
> convinced that a significant proportion of the (constantly increasing
> number of...) non-academic administrators we seem to have (development,
> diversity, research accounting, information technology) are there for the
> sole purpose of making life harder for faculty and students :-(
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Gwen McNatt <gmcnhawkeye at gmail.com>
>> To: Herky <herky at lists.herky.net>
>> Cc:
>> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 19:15:16 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [Herky] President
>>
>> Agree
>>
>> We need a business man to be the chief executive. Let the deans manage
>> the scholarly activities. Having spent the last 8 years in school, I can
>> testify to the need for some business and customer service acumen in the
>> institution that I attended
>> On Sep 22, 2015 1:25 PM, "Jeff Napier" <jnapier111 at outlook.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Based on the little I have seen so far I do think he will be a much
>>> better president as far as supporting athletics.
>>>
>>
> <snip>
>
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