• Gilbert L. Rochon, a senior research scientist at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing and director of the Terrestrial Observatory at Purdue University, will become president of Tuskegee University on November 1, the Montgomery Advertiser reports.
• The University of Georgia is on a hiring streak, the Athens Banner-Herald reports. The university hired more than 70 new professors this fall, a welcome addition after three years of budget cuts that left many jobs unfilled. “It’s a definite step in replenishing the ranks of tenure-track faculty that have eroded over the past few years,” Jere W. Morehead, UGA’s provost, told the newspaper, though he was quick to add that the university still has a ways to go before it breaks even. “We’re down about 170 since 2006 or 2007,” Morehead said. Thanks largely to a big tuition hike, Michael F. Adams, UGA’s president, said he’s considering another round of hiring, the newspaper reports.
• Program cuts and layoffs may be coming soon to Washington State University, KXLY.com reports.
• Meanwhile, the chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, Robert J. Birgeneau, has announced that the university will shed 200 administrative jobs—through attrition, retirements, voluntary separations, and layoffs—next year, the San Francisco Chronicle writes. And that’s in addition to the 600 positions cut since last year, the newspaper adds. There’s no word yet on which departments will be affected or how many layoffs there will be.
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2 Responses to Hiring and Firing Bytes
rhett - September 30, 2010 at 1:24 pm
Roger,If students, donors, parents, and citizens must choose, they will preserve the professors at the expense of the administrators. Attirition is the kind way to trim administrative excess.Hillsdale College is the only institution of higher education which declines public funds: So-called private universities in all other cases take public funds in one form or another.The same considerations apply to other institutions, including hospitals, by the way. Nearly all take Medicare.Shouldn’t these public institutions be held accountable to public standards in all matters, including promotion, hiring, demotion, bias, equity, incentive, etc.? In particular, shouldn’t violators be held personally accountable rather than be allowed to shield themselves behind the ‘corporate veil’?
rhett - September 30, 2010 at 2:10 pm
Roger,If students, donors, parents, and citizens must choose, they will protect their professors at the expense of administrators. How much administrative staff does a university need? Attrition is the kind way to trim administrative fat. Prospective donors can compare universities in this regard, e.g. Duke v. Vanderbilt v. Rice. v. Emory, etc.In extreme cases, profssors can do their own administration, much as doctors now do.Hillsdale is the only institution of higher education which declines public funds: So-called private universities in all other cases take public funds in one form or another, and some unfortunately misue it.The same considerations apply to other institutions, including hospitals. Nearly all take Medicare. Some abuse public funds (see Robert Weinmann M.D., neurologist in California: http://journals.lww.com/neurotodayonline/Fulltext/2003/08000/Up_Close_and_Personal_With_Robert_L__Weinmann,_MD_.15.aspx ). All these ‘public’ institutions should be held accountable to public standards in all matters, including promotion, hiring, demotion, bias, equity, incentive, etc. In particular, shouldn’t violators be held personally accountable rather than be allowed to shield themselves behind the ‘corporate veil’ by spending public funds for their defense of private misconduct?