The Cuts at WVU
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The Cuts at WVU
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#2https://archive.ph/dsTN2
Just in case.
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#3If their budget numbers are true, it demonstrates serious mismanagement.
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#4> In fact, on the same day WVU wrote to tell us our department is cancelled and we are fired, they ran a front-page article on the university website celebrating the NSF grant that Sergio Robles-Puente and I recently received, and lauding our innovative research and intensive student mentoring.
I have a few close friends in academia and while IMO they're clearly underappreciated by their institutions (even the lucky ones who have tenure), this level of cynical disrespect is shocking.
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#5If their budget numbers are true, it demonstrates serious mismanagement.
Yeah, this was my first thought reading through this. It literally makes no sense to close a department that, after operational and administrative costs, is net positive while you are facing a budget crisis.
Later on, the writer mentions an ideological split/decision on the chairperson's part. I wish they would delve into that more. Do the administrative heads feel that using outsourced labor will be more profitable?
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#6> In fact, on the same day WVU wrote to tell us our department is cancelled and we are fired, they ran a front-page article on the university website celebrating the NSF grant that Sergio Robles-Puente and I recently received, and lauding our innovative research and intensive student mentoring. I have a few close friends in academia and while IMO they're clearly underappreciated by their institutions (even the lucky…
This isn’t shocking. It’s the nature of layoffs. The folks making the cuts aren’t telling the the folks in the communications office, “hey, we are firing that person you’re doing a front page story on.”
Also, the department won’t be dissolved until the end of the academic year.
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#7This is a sick path to be on. Keep the money, plug kids into some other university's classes remotely. To what end? A school full of nothing but overpaid administrators, and kids all taking remote classes at disparate cheapest possible offerings?
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#8> In fact, on the same day WVU wrote to tell us our department is cancelled and we are fired, they ran a front-page article on the university website celebrating the NSF grant that Sergio Robles-Puente and I recently received, and lauding our innovative research and intensive student mentoring. I have a few close friends in academia and while IMO they're clearly underappreciated by their institutions (even the lucky…
This isn’t shocking. It’s the nature of layoffs. The folks making the cuts aren’t telling the the folks in the communications office, “hey, we are firing that person you’re doing a front page story on.” Also, the department won’t be dissolved until the end of the academic year.
i love the stories of companies announcing layoffs and then immediately announce bonuses for management. there's tone deaf, and then there's whatever this is
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#9> In fact, on the same day WVU wrote to tell us our department is cancelled and we are fired, they ran a front-page article on the university website celebrating the NSF grant that Sergio Robles-Puente and I recently received, and lauding our innovative research and intensive student mentoring. I have a few close friends in academia and while IMO they're clearly underappreciated by their institutions (even the lucky…
Are we related?
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#10https://archive.ph/dsTN2 Just in case.
here's the archive linked to the paywalled article he mentioned in the post