Big changes in people here at NewU and we have a new president, a new provost and all new deans. The changes aren't reflective of anything bad - just had a bunch of people kind of age out, all at once. The only immediate problem is the new dean for my unit, whom I deeply dislike.
He didn't have a lot of administrative experience - had been chair of a large department at a bigger school than NewU - and I was almost completely uninvolved with the search. I was not on the committee and every chance to see candidates or give input was when I had other service obligations I had to go to. I don't know what the committee was thinking, but I am unimpressed.
Among other things, New Dean didn't get the message that it's a good idea to understand your people and your programs before you start tearing things up. In his first year, we've gone from a large program with 5 people in various administrative positions to a constellation of small programs with 10. Same number of students, same number of majors offered. It's insane. He also regularly misspells faculty names in communication, is actively destroying a program we just started 3 years ago and have hired junior faculty into and has overspent our budget on travel to the point that we can't offer classes that we should because there isn't money to pay faculty to teach them.
I was offered a chance to be one of the minor administrators. Repeatedly. I knew it would make me crazy dealing with the personality and the dysfunction to the point that it would affect my ability to be there for my family so I said no. Repeatedly.
I am mostly quiet about things, as I know I am one of those people who can be slow to embrace change, so perhaps it's me and everything isn't that bad. But I am not looking forward to this year, where we are now supposed to do curriculum revision across a substantially more complicated organization led by inexperienced people.
He didn't have a lot of administrative experience - had been chair of a large department at a bigger school than NewU - and I was almost completely uninvolved with the search. I was not on the committee and every chance to see candidates or give input was when I had other service obligations I had to go to. I don't know what the committee was thinking, but I am unimpressed.
Among other things, New Dean didn't get the message that it's a good idea to understand your people and your programs before you start tearing things up. In his first year, we've gone from a large program with 5 people in various administrative positions to a constellation of small programs with 10. Same number of students, same number of majors offered. It's insane. He also regularly misspells faculty names in communication, is actively destroying a program we just started 3 years ago and have hired junior faculty into and has overspent our budget on travel to the point that we can't offer classes that we should because there isn't money to pay faculty to teach them.
I was offered a chance to be one of the minor administrators. Repeatedly. I knew it would make me crazy dealing with the personality and the dysfunction to the point that it would affect my ability to be there for my family so I said no. Repeatedly.
I am mostly quiet about things, as I know I am one of those people who can be slow to embrace change, so perhaps it's me and everything isn't that bad. But I am not looking forward to this year, where we are now supposed to do curriculum revision across a substantially more complicated organization led by inexperienced people.
2 comments:
That sounds awful. You have my sympathy.
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