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Comment on Gokhan Ozaysin by WalterB

WalterB — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 21:33:47 +0000

The SCAD chief “academic” officer makes in excess of ¾ million dollars to produce statistics for so-called “faculty conferences.” These meetings consist of self-congratulatory accolades, Brobdingnagian pie charts, student quotes, and well-rehearsed Ted-talk-like gesturing. Faculty have no agency in any shape or form; they are never asked for input about anything of significance. This lack of valuing faculty comments and feedback has led to the significant rollover of faculty positions, which speaks to the wider failures of the institution.

Comment on Linda Oubré by jgwhittier

jgwhittier — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 21:27:45 +0000

A Ph.D. in higher education administration with the soul of a real estate agent. When she was hired she passed out a ten page “users manual” for herself filled with literally hundreds of slogans apparently ripped from Who-Moved-My-Cheese-style business inspiration pornos. During the pandemic she stopped the college’s faculty retirement matching contributions and to this day refuses to resume payments because of the cost. Meanwhile in 2021 she hired her son (her SON) to fill the newly created administrative position of Director of Innovation and New Ventures. You know THAT wasn’t cheap.

Recently the faculty surveyed our campus morale and she and her lapdog dean Sal Johnston were ratioed pretty hard for being insular, uncaring, incompetent, and unresponsive to faculty concerns. When the results were presented at a faculty meeting in June she pouted and whined that no one ever comes to her open office hours so NO FAIR complaining about her unresponsiveness.

Comment on Scott Hagan by staff

staff — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 19:05:51 +0000

Meaning – he can talk to you until you’re blue in the face about leadership but has little ability to actually do it well. Knowing this makes him a joke every time he opens his mouth.

Comment on Scott Hagan by current staff

current staff — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 18:57:34 +0000

I have not worked directly much with President Hagan but I have heard a lot of what the review before stated. He has been nothing but incredibly nice to me and from what I can tell others. It’s relatively clear that he’s out of his league in his role though. He doesn’t seem to know what to with the university or how to functionally lead it. The mood at work is extremely low amongst employees and most point their challenges back to him.

Comment on Scott Hagan by NCU Employee

NCU Employee — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 17:44:24 +0000

President Scott Hagan is about as glossy as they come. With a smile from ear to ear and the ability to make you feel like the most important person in the world when he’s in front of you, one realizes after working with him how little leadership and administrative skills he actually beholds. Whether it’s the strategic plan that cost thousands and thousands of consultant dollars and labor hours that he has failed to execute on to the fact that he avoids being on campus to preach at churches every weekend, he has yet to prove in five years that he has the chops to lead an organization. He has no ability to execute even the simplest of ideas.
The employee commitment to his success is very low. He’s on, essentially, his second senior leadership team and even they (as his supposedly closest allies) speak negatively against him. Despite recognizing his own shortcomings in administration at times, he refuses to develop and bring to his leadership the things we need as a university.
He exaggerates to the point of frequently lying. Because he likes to be “Mr Positive” he will often oversell ideas, people, and opportunities. It’s cost the university financially and in personnel. He’s a difficult person to trust.
One of the primary goals when he first started was to raise funds. He’s great at shaking hands but has raised very, very little funds. The issues according to him are always someone or something else. It’s never him.
The list of issues with him are extensive and beyond what’s been shared above, including additional integrity issues (hiring friends with exorbitant salaries) to being a complete narcissist. I personally know no one in the university who wants him to stay.

Comment on Lawrence Summers by rateyourcampusadmin

rateyourcampusadmin — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 17:26:51 +0000

Summers famously said that women and men have different inherent attributes, despite a vast literature that shows this is untrue when comparing performance of men and women across countries. His fixation with biological explanations of the distribution of abilities within and between sexes, in addition to being factually incorrect for cognitive traits, was deeply concerning given his position at Harvard and visibility in the sector.

For transparency, Summers said the following:
“It does appear that on many, many different human attributes—height, weight, propensity for criminality, overall IQ, mathematical ability, scientific ability—there is relatively clear evidence that whatever the difference in means-which can be debated—there is a difference in the standard deviation, and variability of a male and a female population. And that is true with respect to attributes that are and are not plausibly, culturally determined. If one supposes, as I think is reasonable, that if one is talking about physicists at a top twenty-five research university, one is not talking about people who are two standard deviations above the mean. And perhaps it’s not even talking about somebody who is three standard deviations above the mean. But it’s talking about people who are three and a half, four standard deviations above the mean in the one in 5,000, one in 10,000 class. Even small differences in the standard deviation will translate into very large differences in the available pool substantially out.”

Comment on Hello world! by rateyourcampusadmin

rateyourcampusadmin — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 16:58:11 +0000

In reply to GetOut.

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Comment on Michael Bernt by Anonymous65

Anonymous65 — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 04:24:04 +0000

Introspective, respectful

Comment on Henry T. Yang by Alex Small

Alex Small — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 22:55:02 +0000

I never met him, but I heard things from other students. At least when I was a student (and, who knows, maybe now as well) he taught a regular undergraduate class and ran a research lab with PhD students. Now that I’m a prof at a place full of administrators disconnected from on-the-ground reality, I deeply appreciate Chancellor Yang. I wasn’t in his department, but I was studying at a place run by someone who was connected to how things work.

If some Deputy Vice Associate Whatever wanted to implement some new policy, Chancellor Yang would have to think “Wait, what will it mean if I have to run my lab according to this rule? Teach my class with this in place?” It must have kept things grounded. It’s probably why it was and is such an amazing university.

Comment on Henry T. Yang by Alex Small

Alex Small — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 22:45:33 +0000

I was a grad student at UCSB long ago, and while I never met him personally, I was aware of certain things about him. I knew that he taught a class and ran a research group. Now that I’m a professor, I understand how significant it is that he was at ground-level. Universities are full of a administrators who push idea that they got from workshops, and they never have to think about the downsides of those ideas because none of it will affect their work; the problems will all affect people lower on the food chain.

Chancellor Yang was in the trenches. If somebody came to him with some proposed new policy for undergraduate classes, he’d have to think about the actual on-the-ground effects of it. If somebody had an idea for a new way of handling whatever aspect of graduate programs, he’d have to think about his lab and his PhD students. He was in the game.

I don’t know if he is still doing that after all these years, but I know that he was in the early 2000’s, and now that I’m a prof dealing with administrators, I really appreciate the fact that he was connected to what’s going on. I think that’s part of why UCSB is such a great university, and why I got such a good education there. I wasn’t in his department, but I was a place where leaders understood reality.