| BGSU plans to cut 100 full-time faculty by fall |
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| Written by Sentinel Staff |
| Friday, 18 January 2013 18:35 |
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Bowling Green State University Friday afternoon confirmed plans to reduce its faculty by approximately 100 full time positions for Fall Semester 2013. University Spokesperson David Kielmeyer said the move will save an estimated $5.2 million “which will be reallocated to other university priorities.” Kielmeyer said the top priority is to provide competitive salaries for faculty and staff. BGSU now has 932 full time faculty members. The university is negotiating a first contract with the Bowling Green State University Faculty Association. Plans for the faculty reduction were apparently revealed earlier this week at the monthly BGSU Faculty-Senate meeting during a report by Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Rodney Rogers. “All of these positions will come from attrition, retirements and the expiration of some one-year teaching contracts,” the statement said. “Over time, students’ interest in areas of study changes, and the university must adjust to meet these evolving teaching needs. Kielmeyer said Rogers would be meeting with the deans of the respective colleges over the next few weeks to determine where the faculty reductions will be made. The statement indicated the university benchmarks its staffing levels against similar institutions across the state, particularly Kent State University, Ohio University, and Miami University. “Our priority is ensuring the success of our students, and we are constantly evaluating staffing to meet their needs and operate as efficiently as possible,” Rogers said Friday in the statement. “This will not impact the quality of a BGSU education or a student’s ability to graduate on time,” Rogers said. Kielmeyer said the university has no plans to offer retirement incentives. Kielmeyer also said the university is anticipating a higher than normal number of retirements in the next few years because of changes being made to the state retirement programs. BGSU President Mary Ellen Mazey sent an email to faculty and staff on the move his afternoon. |
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You hate college professors because they tend to be liberals (unless they are in business or accounting). It's as transparently obvious.
For the record, almost all the courses I teach are core courses for the major or count heavily toward breadth requirements. I have teach more students in a given year than many professors at UT.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you, distinguished graduate of the James Danforth Quayle school of grammar and advanced thinkosity, Dr. Christopher Williams
What is it with you people that you want to divert attention from serious matters and from your own serious lack of knowledge of what is going on--and a fairly obvious and disgusting general hatred of professors--just to attack me personally?
See UT die? That would be an added bonus!
We are talking two campuses with student populations each of over 25,000, bringing economic benefit to Ohio, and preparing young people to venture into Ohio and the world. To applaud anything that may contribute to their demise as prestigious regional public universities is either perverse or a reflection of an anti-intellectual attitude that is as self-destructive as it is hateful.
And, as to "following UT's lead," that route lies in the direction of increased class sizes and elimination of courses, including required courses, including in the sciences, to the extent that students will be unable to complete their degrees, nor will they develop writing and hands-on skills that are necessary for them to be desirable to potential hiring employers.
They may have won the vote, but the University is making this Union look like a joke.
What is at stake here is that several accredited programs that have been built up over years, programs that are among the most highly regarded regionally and nationally, that have the highest and most prestigious rates of job replacement, are now at risk, because of inability to replace needed faculty, inability to staff even large classes, and inability to offer small enrollment specialty classes that are needed to maintain high standards. (cont).
I define "brainwash" as deliberately providing misinformation and counterfactual data in order to produce results that are ideological appealing, but also not supported by data. It is the opposite of what I do. It might surprise you to know that over the years many of my strongest students have been ideologically conservative but do a damned fine job of backing up their arguments with data and reason. That's the essence of critical thinking.
What "facts" do you have that render mine a "joke"?
Calling public universities "government programs" is truly perverse, and disgusting. Are you aware that only 26% of either university's budget comes from the "government"? and that percentage correlates to the difference between in-state public tuition and tuition at a comparable private college?
You obviously have no idea what is really happening on that campus. It's ok, we all know the rural townies hate education and are essentially clueless.
You are lucky the university pays for everything in your town. Otherwise, BG wouldn't exist.
You feel bad for the administrators, who exist in almost equal number to the faculty they are laying off, and whom they make more money than? Huh.
The faculty do recognize that they need to do without all the positions they have going forward, and were resigned to losing some t-t positions through attrition. However, there has been an explosion in higher paid administrative positions, to where there is almost a 1:1 ratio, and the real concerns are class size and the fact that the one-year contract professors they are projecting to cut arbitrarily often have the highest teaching loads in the university.
Please cite a single case of what you are talking about.
The benefits are not "awesome" compared to other universities. They are fairly run-of-the-mill. What are these "awesome benefits" of which you speak?
Just because you would deny benefits to your own workers doesn't mean that everybody should be denied them. Do you think that health care should not be on a health insurance basis but a la carte and out of pocket?
You clearly don't like what I am saying here, or that I am allowed to say it at all.
The university will charge students the maximum tuition that they can up until the point where it starts to drive them away. Not a penny less. This is just business. On top of that, they will gouge them with hidden fees for athletics and overpriced meal plans (and anything else they can think of). The goal is to get every penny that they can from the customer.
What do these programs produce? They are there for no reason then to make the University feel good about itself.
The Pop Culture department is unique in the US and is highly respected internationally . It puts BGSU on the map.
Too many confuse education with "training," and yet many employers complain that their applicants can't write, can't deal with complexity, and can't think critically.
And you really have no idea what has transpired "under Obama," if you continue to attribute things that pre-dated his presidencies to him. RE: Economic collapse of 2008. I know your hard right websites and conspiracies are comforting, but they are not relevant.
It's like blaming BGSU problems that have been brewing for about 4-5 years on a union that has only been in existence less than 2.
Your mention of "shared sacrifice" shows very little understanding of how uncompetitive BGSU has become compared to other universities as a place to work and how little the term "public" still applies to public universities--which get less than 26% of their funding from the state. That amount correlates to the tuition difference between public and private and not much else.
None of your discussions of the "welfare state" are relevant to the BGSU issue.
And aren't you aware that the explosion of people on assistance has more to do with the economic collapse of 2008 than with Obama's policies. The majority of Americans understood that in 2012.
You've said elsewhere you wish I never posted at all, so I don't really think you are the boss of me.
And be honest about why you think professors are the bad guys in this.
My guess is that, like many on the far, far right, you see universities as places that harbor liberalism, and for that reason alone need to be stripped down to size, put to heel, and forced to become job training/diploma mills, restricted to what YOU think is useful.
Like manmade climate change, evolution, and the notion that Jonah Goldberg and David Barton have zero scholarly credibility are make believe?
Maybe if it leads to people thinking anything contrary to the conservative media bubble it MUST be make believe.
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