2009/2010 Faculty Survey Results Comments on Deans (edited) Contents

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2009/2010 Faculty Survey Results

Comments on Deans (edited)

Contents

Allied Health ................................................................................................................................... 1

Arts & Sciences ............................................................................................................................... 1

Mitchell College of Business .......................................................................................................... 2

Continuing Education & Special Programs .................................................................................... 2

Computer & Information Sciences ................................................................................................. 3

Education ........................................................................................................................................ 3

Engineering ..................................................................................................................................... 4

Libraries .......................................................................................................................................... 4

Medicine ......................................................................................................................................... 5

Nursing ............................................................................................................................................ 6

Allied Health

Dean Talbott is approachable and reasonable. He also strives to find ways to help faculty in each department.

We are so understaffed we are about to implode and he either doesn't care or doesn't realize it is so bad. very good motivator

Arts & Sciences

The new dean has been overly rigid and uncommunicative thus far in his tenure to be effective. since he is new to the full-time position, all opinions are tentative for now.

… he did thank me for participating in Jagsuccess, so that's a plus :)

Short employment: Davis is effective, accommodating and accessible. a very fair man

He got hired with 1 paragraph statements. Criminal

He is new. Not been in office long enough to evaluate.

He's new. We need to give him a chance.

Since the College of Arts and Sciences has a new dean, it remains unclear how well the dean will perform.

We have had very little time to form an opinion.

He needs to learn to listen. It is difficult to talk to him because he is constantly interrupting you with an answer prior to hearing what you have to say. He gets into a mode of what seems like lecturing the person he is talking to. His social skills are lacking

He is new. We will give him more time.

He hasn't been Dean long enough to know these things.

Mitchell College of Business

Carl has no vision whatsoever. He just wants to exist.

Appears more inclusive regarding decision-making on paper than in actuality.

Does not have the ability to coordinate efforts, but rather chooses a position that's impervious to input from others.

Carl Moore is a dishonest and incompetent tyrant. We need a new Dean now. The new Dean should not be Deb Spake or John Gamble.

No vision. He's a bureaucrat through and through.

Continuing Education & Special Programs

She doesn't listen to others. It's her way only. She expects faculty and staff to do things too quickly and overloads them with work. Morale is low in the college because of her.

Tends to micro-manage programs very impressed with self

Not many resources to allocate...

Computer & Information Sciences

Dr. Yasinsac has been a great addition to our School. His enthusiasm and positive attitude set high expectations for our faculty and encourage us to reach for these lofty goals. He has brought in a breath of fresh air.

Communicates a positive and creative approach to problem solving.

Enthusiastically addressing recruitment, retention, research and grant activities, and new programs.

Education

We are in the fifth year of creating a new curriculum. Now we have been put on a fast track. Just a few faculty members are getting input and decisions are being made too rapidly to think through all options. All is being done on the back of faculty while carrying a full load. The leadership in the college is appalling. We have an acting chair who is in the office about two days a week. The dean created program coordinators who have one course release, however the job takes far more time. Resources are not fairly distributed. All of the administrators get new computers, faculty computers are repaired with spare parts from scavenged old lab computers. The college is a mess.

Dean Hayes keeps faculty informed and has a clear vision for the College of

Education.

We go through the motions of faculty input, but the actual valuing of faculty input is contingent upon whether or not it fits already set agendas from the Dean's office.

Articulate, highly educated and a visionary.... however, he tends to believe that faculty vision should be in line with his...faculty tend to envision learning as the priority...COE admin tend to envision technological advances and public relations as the priority

Clearly taking the College to the next level in-spite of some resistance from faculty engrained in old school instruction.

I am totally discouraged by what has happened in the COE since Dean Hayes took over. If he gets one of the jobs he has been trying for almost since he came, I hope the university will be more careful in selecting a replacement who is honest, treats all faculty fairly, hires diverse faculty who actually ARE diverse (not just having married into a "diverse" surname), and works towards just teaching loads instead of trying to hide extra loads as "field experience integrated into already existing courses". It would also be nice to have a dean who insists that all faculty be allowed to serve and chair doctoral committees as this is required for furthering our careers (and especially since this was the original vision for the COE Ph.D. program and since the IDD doc students are typically interested in topics other than IDD - but since it is the only option...). Graduate faculty should have the same loads as undergrad faculty since the current system keeps higher teaching loads for undergrad and mixed grad/undergrad faculty allowing only grad-only faculty time to do the publishing required for promotion.

Engineering

Favors cronies. Also, is power-hungry and micromanages. Vindictive. Does not like foreigners.

Such a flip flop person, I have never seen my life. He openly lies and violates university rules and regulations. Because of him we are facing two lawsuits. He is badly destroying the university reputation. I think keep this person in this university would be a big mistake.

He's doing a great job

Very incompetent and biased. Practices discrimination while dealing with faculty members.

He is a very biased man. Spends most of his time in unproductive activities and politics. For example, he meets his non-tenured faculty members every two weeks to talk about tenure. it is a complete waste of these young faculty members time.

Once in a year should be enough.

A racist

He discriminates foriegn born faculty members. He will reward only those who goes to his coffee room even though they are very unproductive. Very unethical person.

Extremely unethical and biased man. He is ruining the academic environment in our college.

If continued with his authority, this dean will distort the image of the university significantly. He has discriminative behaviour towards non-native born american citizens. His actions and interference in faculty awards, hiring, and promotions clearly indicate his discriminative behaviour. He is not profound in research but yet he cleverly dictates who should be the awardee of the excellence in research? His recommendation for salary raises is another issue that deserves a closer investigation. If continued with his current policy, the university will be facing many civil and federal legal issues.

The Dean violated the Federal regulations with respect to search for new faculty.

Interferes in the appointment of search committees and tries to influence their decision. Unfair in faculty evaluations.

He changes and retracts his statements. Changed rules before teaching and research awards were given. He made the work environment very stressful hence unproductive faculty. He wants to clean the college from the not native-born natural speakers in general.

Libraries

I feel that he is not supportive of our faculty.

Never sure that what he may say is valid/true

The dean is practically non-existent, when it comes to managing.

Dr. Wood rarely seen in the library. He is not involved with the librarians or the staff. He gives the impression of not supporting the librarians or staff. There is a lack of confidence in him as a dean.

Dean does not always show respect for his faculty and does not always involve faculty in decision making.

Dean Wood lacks any leadership qualities. He is ineffective as a leader or manager. He has brought no new initiatives or programs to the library. His contributions to the library are negligible and seems at most times to not have a clue as to what is going on in the library.

Fails to support staff and service needs.

I have not found the Dean of University Libraries to be supportive of library faculty in general, and in some cases he seems to actively undermine our position as opposed supporting it. I find this perplexing and discouraging.

My dean seems to want to have all of our faculty hired as non-tenure track assistants. The position we have open now was advertised as Instructor nontenure without any input from the faculty -- we didn't even know about it until it had already been advertised -- and I'm on the search committee. I am sick of having to fight about this every time there is a library position open. In addition, hiring an instructor as a department head is in direct violation of the faculty handbook which says that department heads must at least be assistants. But he does not listen because he does not care. He is not an advocate for his faculty and never has been.

Medicine

The College of Medicine is in dire need of new, positive, forward thinking leadership. The current administration is the single most important obstacle to development of the MCI, to improvement in services and scholarly activity in the clinical departments, and to development of inter-departmental and intercollegiate programs.

Lacks credibility among the clinical faculty. We never see him.

Dr Strada is a excellent leader, approachable, and helpful with everything we do. In my opinion the Mitchell Cancer institute should be under his leadership in order to align all parts of the Medical Enterprise is aligned with College of Medicine.

He is in total denial that the College of Medicine is failing. His approach is simply to ignore the clinical arm of the school and to avoid any contact with anything that is MD in nature. We have a PHD college of Medicine.

Doing a creditable job in adverse conditions

… we seem to have to do more and more for student/resident development with less and less staff.

It would be nice if an MD was the Dean of a College of Medicine instead of a PhD who applied but did not get into medicine

The dean as a man is a good person. He was chosen from faculty ranks in order to make him impotent in university affairs. Not his fault, a result of higher administrative planning.

Current (lack of) support seriously the ability of the faculty to succeed by usual academic markers of success

The clear vision is to put the breaks on anything that has an initial cost even if it is expected to expand and produce. Don't agree with the vision. I think it is a shame that we are the best with the abilities of some of the most talented physicians, etc in the area and we have only one ENT surgeon. one adult neurologist, one pediatric neurologist, one plastic surgeon, etc. How can these programs and the university expand when there is only one person to carry the load?

Honest and forthright but poor sense of clinical education and the clinical mission of a hospital and its clinics.

It's apparent that Sam is trying to do the best he can in a system where the

President doesn't seem to care about the COM

I believe the dean is very inefficient in his actions. I don't understand why MCI doesn't report to the dean. very little contact with dean... no resources available for any assignments, ect. must fund organizations from own pocket.

Nursing

A visionary! The College of Nursing is always operating on the cutting edge and the Dean creates an atmosphere where creative ideas are welcomed. Hard work is rewarded, as is dedication to the mission of the College. Personal responsibility is an expectation and professional growth is very well supported.

Dean articulates how she wishes faculty to vote. Dean is not available to faculty who are in classrooms with the students. The Associate Dean and chain of command is so strict no problem or issue ever appears to make it to the Dean's attention. This is apparent in faculty meetings where the Dean states issues which are not true and the faculty agree as they are so afraid of punishment. There is a very dishonest, closed environment in the CON.

Visionary! Encouraging! Innovative!

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