LSU names F. King Alexander as chancellor-president

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  1. TwistedTiger

    TwistedTiger Founding Member

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    Not picking on you Red, but that sounds like a crock to me. Having to get employee approval to hire their boss is absurd. You hire a qualified candidate that fits the job description and the employees follow his lead or are shown the door. Faculty/employees not cooperating with their boss should be fired. Sounds like a bunch of political bs by the faculty imo.
     
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  2. lsudolemite

    lsudolemite CodeJockey Extraordinaire

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    Oh dear, you've now steered the conversation into the mystical, dangerous land of tenure. A more sacred cow in academia you will never find.
     
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  3. lsu_dane

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    As someone who was a teacher for awhile before deciding to go back to secular work, I can say that there are very few more entitled people than those in education.

    Please don't take this as a personal attack Red. It's more a general observation that I can personally vouch for.
     
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  4. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Not picking on you either, but you are not getting it. No one said that the faculty should have "approval". I said that the faculty should be consulted in the selection process. Chemistry between chancellor and faculty is extremely important and a BoS that doesn't consider this is asking for trouble. The whole O'Keefe affair could have been averted if the faculty had been involved. Questions that should have been asked were not.

    A university is not a business or a government agency. It can't be run like a business or an agency. It is very much a collaborative venture between academic individuals and their academic administrators.
     
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  5. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    He'll be gone within five years. All of these "up and comers" are upwardly mobile. Good for them, bad for LSU.

    This isn't about tenure.
     
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    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    It can happen a lot of ways, but ideally the Faculty Senate should be a part of the selection process. Individual faculty and departments are all represented and can speak for the faculty as one.
     
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  7. lsudolemite

    lsudolemite CodeJockey Extraordinaire

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    LSU is having the damnedest time keeping anyone here, much less the Chancellor/president/whatever.
     
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  8. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    No pay raises in five years . . . unless you are a coach. No promotions unless approved at the highest levels. Five straight years of departmental budget cuts. The brain drain has been on for some time and is picking up. No one thinks things will get better and most think they will get far worse under Jindal. It ain't like this in other states, so people are leaving.
     
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  9. Winston1

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    That is a shame Red. LSU should be the source of our future and Jindal seems to be ignoring that. I think technocrats of any political stripe are bad leaders and Jindal seems to be proving it. A wise conservative invests in the future. Apparently Bobby got his diploma but not his smarts.
     
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  10. lsudolemite

    lsudolemite CodeJockey Extraordinaire

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    Jindal had to be embarrassed by the LSU student body president during one of his countless out-of-state fundraising tours before he would even address student concerns over budget cuts. Louisiana higher ed is a legislative policy and structural mess, and I'll be more than happy to be leaving it soon. If Jindal didn't even have the political will to merge a school with a graduation rate of <10%, then he doesn't have the leadership ability or desire to seriously tackle it.
     
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