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Leadership Shakeup At The University Of South Carolina
Faculty in “shock, total surprise” after provost switch, departure of top dean…
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Illogical to complain about a school’s rankings and then say schools shouldn’t get any public funding. Public funding is at the core of what gets schools good spots in the rankings–even private schools. Edit thyself, editor.
This, on top of many others! Weak connections, attempting to make reader speculate by mincing random facts. Terrible writing overall, andclearly bias “Palmetto State’s so-called flagship school of higher education” – if you’re a tigger write about tiggers, this told me what direction the story was heading in 3 seconds. The title is exaggerated. My education did me great and taught my writing basics at least!!
Exactly. Where does he think the money for public higher education comes from. Is his financial model Trump University?
FitsNews should dig into why Fitzpatrick left the College of Arts and Sciences in 2015. Something “like a drunken sailor” and had to do with the colors black and red.
I am confused.
Leftwing edu-crats are interchangeable. The names above are well known left-wingers the manage large WOKE colleges at USC.
It does not matter who fills which chair as the results are the same.
WOKE all day, everyday.
What do you mean? Tell us some examples that support your criticism, Alex. Mean people here will say you’re confused because you are an idiot. But I think those people should reserve judgment until we hear why you think USC is left-wing and woke.
Let us know so when someone calls you a dolt I can come to your defense.
I’ll always support USC, even after their ineptitude when they tried to market themselves as UofSC, but something must be done. There is no reason why USC should be ranked ten spots lower than it did a decade ago. Furthermore, USC should be trying to improve their rankings, by being more selective when it comes to who they admit. I am embarrassed by USC.
One thing you should consider when looking at rankings is that some schools play the rankings game (see Clempson). Other schools don’t really care and just seek to build the best university they can (see USC). For instance:
#1 Honors college
#1 Freshman experience
#1 Nursing Masters
Top 1% Nursing undergrad
#1 Exercise Science program national rank
#3 Ex Science program internationally
#1 Military Friendly (one reason that Fitzpatrick needs to go is that she is decidedly unfriendly to the military on campus)
Guys like Alex use the term woke for things they don’t understand, they just don’t like, or that make them feel uncomfortable. That way they don’t have to think about things too much.
All the changes have been announced publicly – be happy to share the emails with you.
I certainly hope in making changes just now, will give precedence to those who attend to get the most out of their educational choices and making the Business College and Law College better!
Football and Other sports are important, but education of our children are most important for a great life ahead! Times are changing and Educating our children is an honor for all professors at USC!
Arnett was the spearhead of DEI and wokeness at USC and hired predominantly women from her previous employer. She was not liked by the BOT, faculty and staff displaying a heavy-handed administrative. style (“my way or the highway”) Fitzpatrick was in the provost office before under Arnett and is in a tight race with Tayloe Harding to get the next interim position under her belt. . Samuels kept the lights on in the largest college and was looking since a year “to move on”. So we are re-arranging the deckchairs at USC again. After a lawyer he most research intensive college now gets a dean from the college of education with very marginal scholarly achievements – but good enough for rank 120. Amiridis learned from his buddy Pastides how to “ride a wave” and needs to deliver on building a second rank teaching med school that will never outrankMUSC. Same old politics ensuring mediocracy and further decline in rankings.
It really doesn’t matter who is provost and who dims Dean at USC East! Nothing good will happen here the next decade. Columbia is ehrte promising young faculty go yo then either and decay,
The vast majority of people who go to college do so to gain the skill sets and knowledge (or at least the credentials that ostensibly evidence them) that will permit them to achieve a significantly higher level of income and quality of life than they would presumably otherwise not have if they did not get a college degree. And those people want to do this without a crushing debt load. That should be the primary factor in college rankings. Everything else is decoration.
Academics move jobs like any other profession, top leaders get recruited often and offered raises, sign on bonus, etc like any other execs in business. Further, one of the reasons we dropped ranking was directly related to funding. The good ole days of affordable education and world class research in the US were directly related to generous federal funding.