You’re about to get a pious jock for your president. Your school is so horribly in debt that it’s laying off tons of people. Your job, as student, is to pay
This is from a 2012 article titled AS YSU CUTS ITS BUDGET, ATHLETICS GETS MORE.
The general fund of the university transferred nearly $8.8 million in 2012 to the athletics department, 5.5% more than in 2011, and in 2013 the general fund will transfer $9.06 million, an increase of 5.8% above 2012.
So YSU is set up nicely. A coach for a president. Students whose main function is to feed the sports program. Good set up for an athletics facility.
If on the other hand you’re talking university, nothing could be shabbier.
June 6th, 2014 at 2:14PM
“Incoming President Jim Tressel, former executive vice president for student success at the University of Akron”
There is always PLENTY of money for these bogus administrative positions, even when those positions are made up for failed coaches. Here at our DIII school in the hinterlands, we are adding them at the same time we are NOT replacing faculty.
June 6th, 2014 at 2:22PM
JND: Yes – the main difficulty with these positions is coming up with names for them…
June 6th, 2014 at 7:01PM
UD’s information and judgment are spot on. Cutbacks announced this week at Youngstown State didn’t lay a glove on the patronage-and-kickback slobs among the staffers there. Although they number probably no more than 1% or 2% of payroll, they surround themselves with irregularly hired suck-ups, and make their bones by aggressively undermining the good work of others.
I hesitate to give free advice out of my skill set–I’m not an academic–but I’d approach a job offer from Youngstown State with caution. Take the job if you need to, live frugally, and keep your CV out there.
June 7th, 2014 at 1:08PM
Here’s but one example of administrative incompetence at Youngstown State as reported in the local paper.
Administrator Smith asked that two new positions be created and funded. Higher Administrator Jones okayed the positions and candidate interviews, but deferred a funding decision until August.
H. A. Jones’s stated reason for okaying the positions and interviews was that candidates would unlikely be persuaded to leave their current employment if interviewed and offered a position just before the fall term. But Jones had just said no decision on funding would be made until just before the fall term.
What do you think the chances are that job candidates will get an honest interview? What do you think the chances are of a miscommunication that has a candidate believing he’d been offered a position only to have the offer “retracted” at the last moment?
Sure, you can probably honestly interview someone for an unfunded position, but if your hiring theory is that the candidate you want is unlikely to be available when you’re able to hire him, you just created an incentive to lie.