I completely agree with that. At my last job, the new "performance outcomes"
plans that mimic business examples and were handed down by state system-wide
administration were driven by a move to a (more) Republican appointed Board
of Regents and made a shambles of an already incompetent strategic planning
process.
Ann
----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 8:32 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:8700] Re: Re: Re: Re: farewell to academe
> Doug,
> A curious aspect of this is that the drive to
> "assessment," a recent and truly appalling fad
> among academic administrators, is much worse
> in public universities than among private. It is
> ironic that the private ones may actually be at
> least slightly more immune to some of the worst
> of these pressures than the public ones, where
> every right wing jackass thinks he has the right
> to tell us what we should be doing.
> Thus, our asshole of a governor pays off the
> Christian Right by appointing people to the Board
> of Visitors who think they can fool with the curriculum.
> No courses on gay and lesbian literature, naughty children.
> BTW, along with pay, hiring, and travel, another thing
> frozen here by our ambitious governor ("Look at me, Dubya!"),
> is construction. On top of that he has cut contributions to
> our retirement funds. We are looking at outright nominal
> pay decreases, and there is not even a recession going on,
> unless you listen too hard to Dubya.
> Barkley Rosser
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Monday, March 05, 2001 7:14 PM
> Subject: [PEN-L:8686] Re: Re: Re: farewell to academe
>
>
> >Christian Gregory wrote:
> >
> >>What is different about the most recent phase of university
> corporatization
> >>is its willingness to reduce everything to the market's stupidest forms
of
> >>calculation
> >
> >Seems to me that the American university, as it evolved from the late
> >19th century until about 20 years ago, was characterized by a partial
> >autonomy from what Keynes called the Benthamite contraption; sure
> >professors were ultimately in the pay of the bourgeoisie and operated
> >within the strictures of bourgeois discourse, but there were several
> >layers between the prof and the boss's accountants. Now you've got
> >people trying to measure teacher productivity.
> >
> >Doug
> >
> >
>
>
