[78-L] Does this episode of Hoarders apply to you?

[David Lennick]

On 8/3/2011 10:26 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> On 8/3/2011 9:16 PM, eugene hayhoe wrote:
>> Michael Biel wrote:
>> "This guy destroyed our department
>> -- all my colleagues still tell me they wish they could also have
>> retired.  He split up the department after I left, and then he left to
>> go and destroy some other university." MB
>>
>> Why is this kind of stuff an 'academic specialty?'
>
> There is an old taunt "Those that can, do.  Those who can't, teach."
> There's another more apt part to it: "Those who can't teach,
> administrate."

Or, in Woody Allen's words, teach gym.

> I guess I should no longer be surprised at the ineptness
> of academic administrations.  In the 45 years I was in higher education
> as a student and professor I have only once seen an efficient
> intelligent university president -- and they ran him out of town on a
> rail in less than two years.  I had maybe 7 or 8 department chairs, and
> I can recall only one who was universally loved in our department.  I
> very quickly learned that I had absolutely no interest in moving up to
> an administrative position, and rarely trusted any professor who did.
>
> Mike Biel, professor emeritus  mbiel at mbiel.com

Sounds similar to what happened to a favorite archivist/curator we knew in 
Upstate New York. Screwed, blewed and tattooed.

dl

>>
>> I was out of work for 7 years for 'whistleblowing,' compared to a 'Sept 11 terrorist,' threatened with arrest on my way to a Board of Trustees meeting&   plenty more before finally going back, after arbitration, into a better job, and the guy who created the whole openly corrupt, openly racist mess I fought has been promoted twice&   is now Dean of one of the largest divisions of the college. They never denied the corruption because their own paperwork proved it. And I heard repeatedly during those 7 years 'that's just a drop in the ocena.' When I went back, I met someone in her 8th year of the arb/grievance process.
>>
>>
>
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