Posted on 05/10/2021 2:01:47 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Faculty at Monmouth College are calling on the resignation or removal of school President Clarence Wyatt.
In a statement issued to school faculty on April 5 faculty members say "the best course of action would be for President Wyatt to relinquish his position as President of the College or be removed from his role by the Board of Trustees."
The pressure comes after a year of financial strain brought on by declining enrollment and the COVID-19 pandemic.
WQAD spoke with several faculty members under the condition of anonymity to avoid jeopardizing their employment.
"We've brought all our concerns to the Faculty Senate at one time or another," said one faculty member. "We’ve also brought them informally to the Dean and other people in the administration."
According to the faculty, their concerns, ideas, strategies and general correspondence was largely ignored or dismissed.
"[The administration] is communicating things that have already been decided, rather than involving faculty in those decisions. I mean, faculty understand that sometimes you're involved in talking about a decision and it doesn’t go your way but that really hasn’t been the case."
Last Spring, the Faculty Senate was asked to appoint a committee to make faculty cuts.
"Ten faculty and then the Dean was on that Committee," said a faculty member. "[The committee] looked through everything in their purview and of course, there's certain things they can't do, [but] they made their recommendations. [The committee] came a little bit short of the money savings that [the administration] was looking for but no one said go back to the drawing board and come up with more cuts so we assumed that was it."...
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Did the Monmouth trustees take a poll about their president?
“Ten faculty and then the Dean was on that Committee,” said a faculty member.
With so many universities holding zoom classes rather than in person sessions, I believe there will be a lot of smaller colleges and u iversities looking to either downsize or close. Can’t imagine paying a substantial tuition so little Johnny or Buffy can watch class on their laptop in the basement. My guess is hat there are thousands of professors worried about their future after last year.
>>WQAD spoke with several faculty members under the condition of anonymity to avoid jeopardizing their employment.
“We’ve brought all our concerns to the Faculty Senate at one time or another,” said one faculty member. “We’ve also brought them informally to the Dean and other people in the administration.”
According to the faculty, their concerns, ideas, strategies and general correspondence was largely ignored or dismissed.<<
I have worked in the university environment. ALL faculty think they know how to run the place and none actually do.
The best thing for the school to do is ignore/dismiss faculty suggestions. Especially from the business school. You know where they think you could actually run a project using what you “learn” getting a PMP.
I want to see Oberlin College close their doors. Even the alums pays the college any attention or donations.
Professor Bo Zoe is in trouble.
This is Monmouth College in I’ll. Monmouth University is in West Long Branch NJ and their polling institute may be left leaning but the University itself is conservative as far as colleges go.
Ah, thank you for the clarification!
And some college presidents can’t even get the correct school;
https://twitter.com/i/status/1390861344744919041
That was the University of South Carolina’s graduation.
The country would be fine if most of the colleges closed for the next 20 years or at least ended all courses but absolute STEM courses and required no “humanities” courses for STEM majors to graduate.
Imagine a network of private colleges, spread out across the union like campfires, graduating citizens that now how to read, write, solve for x and business math, know US and world history, the laws of logic, can debate, plant a garden, maintain health and heal by nutrition, demonstrate marksmanship, are well versed in the classics, are biblically literate, can run a household and can raise children that don’t turn out to be socialists.
Yeah, that is a tall order.
Ill sign up to teach some subjects and take classes for things that I am not proficient in (yet)
I am a Monmouth (Illinois} grad, class of 1970. When I graduated, Monmouth had a student body of about 1500. By 1980 the student body was about 400-450. Over the last 40 years, they have managed to get back to a student body of 1000-1200.
This was done by becoming a specialty or niche institution.
In order to attract students, Monmouth embarked on a building program that ‘built out the campus’. This seems to be the major faculty complaint.
I’ve seen a spike in these stories lately.
Unions are PO’d about cutbacks.
Awwwwww....
At least they want him out because of job performance and not because he said something nice about white people.
Fifty thousand bucks a year to attend a school that graduates only half of its enrollees.
That’s very close to Hillsdale College, if money were no object.
One of my B’Ball buds is a professor of journalism at Monmouth. I’ll have to ask him for the inside scoop.
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