(GW) administration ineptitude
So it turns out that GW fired its sex professor because he was giving out too many As. Seems plausible enough. But why wait to tell the guy that until now? As the Hatchet quotes:
"Had they been truthful with me at the very beginning, this whole thing wouldn't have blown up to be as big as it is," Schaffer said. "They didn't have the common decency to be honest with me."
GW bureaucracy has never been the place to find decency, common or uncommon. I'm reminded of Monday's article on a professor who quit because he hadn't gotten a pay raise in years, and couldn't get an answer from the administration until the semester had started:
When O'Keefe first arrived at GW [in 1999], he was paid a salary of $5,000 per semester, and it was raised to $6,000 the next year. He had also taught a similar course at Johns Hopkins University where he initially received $6,000 per course per semester.
O'Keefe had originally mailed Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Donald Lehman Aug. 15 to inquire about the possibility of a pay increase, as well as a request to change his title from professional lecturer to adjunct associate professor.
Lehman did not respond until Sept. 19 in a letter that corrected his appointment but did not increase his salary, O'Keefe said. At that point, O'Keefe sent another letter to Lehman informing him of his decision to leave GW.
Look, it's not that hard to be good to people. This kind of bureaucratic opaqueness may serve the immediate desires of the GW administration, but it does little to meet the needs of the students. We are loosing good professors to this crap, and I'm certain that GW's reputation among potential professors is faltering due to this as well. Things need to change.
"Had they been truthful with me at the very beginning, this whole thing wouldn't have blown up to be as big as it is," Schaffer said. "They didn't have the common decency to be honest with me."
GW bureaucracy has never been the place to find decency, common or uncommon. I'm reminded of Monday's article on a professor who quit because he hadn't gotten a pay raise in years, and couldn't get an answer from the administration until the semester had started:
When O'Keefe first arrived at GW [in 1999], he was paid a salary of $5,000 per semester, and it was raised to $6,000 the next year. He had also taught a similar course at Johns Hopkins University where he initially received $6,000 per course per semester.
O'Keefe had originally mailed Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Donald Lehman Aug. 15 to inquire about the possibility of a pay increase, as well as a request to change his title from professional lecturer to adjunct associate professor.
Lehman did not respond until Sept. 19 in a letter that corrected his appointment but did not increase his salary, O'Keefe said. At that point, O'Keefe sent another letter to Lehman informing him of his decision to leave GW.
Look, it's not that hard to be good to people. This kind of bureaucratic opaqueness may serve the immediate desires of the GW administration, but it does little to meet the needs of the students. We are loosing good professors to this crap, and I'm certain that GW's reputation among potential professors is faltering due to this as well. Things need to change.
posted by onlooker at 8:47 AM
1 Comments:
*shakes head* I wonder about this school sometimes. I've noticed the exodus of good professors as well, and the onslaught of bad new ones in their places. I wonder, are students at all universities this disatisfied?
btw, it's spelling losing.
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