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Pressed by Faculty, President of West Virginia State U. Plans to Step Down

August 23, 2011, 3:54 pm

Hazo W. Carter Jr., who has been president of West Virginia State University since 1987, will step down next July, the institution’s governing board announced today, according to a report by the Charleston Gazette. The university’s Faculty Senate expressed no confidence in Mr. Carter’s leadership last week by a vote of 67 to 15, with 14 abstentions. Many professors said they had no personal animus against Mr. Carter, but felt the university had stagnated under his leadership.

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  • bigjoe

    It did not have anything to do with WVU giving a Master’s Degree to a governor’s daughter when it was not earned?  Why let him wait until July?  He can not help the university now.

  • thomascanderson

    bigjoe, you need to check your facts.  This is NOT WVU but WVSU, two different institutions.  The situation you refer to occurred at WVU and not WVSU.

  • bigjoe

    Sorry, I missed the word State in the name.

  • sortaretired

    This requirement is leftover from pre-LMS days. Perhaps you can work with your colleagues to instigate a policy revision. It’s happened on other campuses.

  • drassessment

    I have the students sign the acknowledgment: 1. So I don’t have to take up precious class time going through it; 2. So that when they claim they didn’t know something was in the syllabus, I can remind them that they said they had read it.

    I recognize that as you put it, “No one ever had to tell us that classes meant obligations, work,
    assignments, completed assignments, turn-in dates, projects, reading and
    whatever else is there to do. Simple, you go to college? You do this to
    get it done.” Yet I have learned from experience that many students today do not have that same work ethic when it comes to doing their coursework. And even after agreeing to abide by the policies described in the syllabus, they want to be exceptions. Just this summer, in my online class which lasted 8 weeks, I had between 25-30 requests by students to be allowed to submit assignments late, even though the policy is clearly stated that late work is not accepted.

    We do what we can and hope for the best.

  • sortaretired

    I wonder how typical we were of student in our classes. Most faculty members graduated college with far better than a C average, or we never would have been accepted into graduate school. Even disregarding possible cultural changes, the students we teach aren’t the students we were.

  • http://www.samplereality.com Mark Sample

    I like Jason’s idea of a 1-page mini-syllabus for day one that points towards the full syllabus online. It gives students a piece of paper to put in their binders, but it also avoids printing out reams of paper. I used this method for the first time this afternoon for my Science Fiction class. This 1-page visual guide to my syllabus highlights the course themes, the readings, and the assignments, but then points students to the fuller online version. Nobody complained that I didn’t distribute the full syllabus, and in fact, somebody remarked that this hybrid system was much more orderly than the usual means of distributing documents at the beginning of the semester.

  • philostitute

     The syllabus is great, the headings are clear and this is very well done!  I love that all of your readings are accessible online.  How did you get the permissions?

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