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cancerouselflvr

More Gut-Punching Fun

Jun 25, 2007 18:30

It's technically not my school anymore, but I still feel like I've been puched in the stomach each time I read about some of the "necessary changes" taking place at my school, or maybe what was my school, or maybe that strange entity that claims I belonged to it somehow ( Read more... )

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selenityk June 26 2007, 01:41:29 UTC

I only read half the newsletter until my ire was raised against the new college yet again. I hate that they laid off the staff members.

esthompson June 26 2007, 02:20:29 UTC

I hate the BOT. With a passion ( ... )

wiggin_out June 26 2007, 15:55:49 UTC

I guess they don't realise that they have destroyed, utterly, at least one dept. Apparently part of the "severance package" was a confidentiality agreement. I know I wouldn't have made it through these past two years without Paul...and I'm sure as hell not going back to the theatre without him..maybe not even to this "school" or whatever mockery thereof it is.

esthompson June 27 2007, 13:54:01 UTC

Tell everyone you know not to sign a confidentiality agreement! Of course it's their choice, but it may tie their hands in ways they don't expect.

Oh, I also read in a Richmond Times-Dispatch article (go to their website, search rmwc, it's the 15% staff cut one)...that they will be cutting academic programs that they had created in order to attract women. My most educated guess is that they'll trash American studies and environmental studies. The BOT is annoyingly predictable.

wiggin_out June 27 2007, 18:36:52 UTC

They probably won't actually touch environmental studies because they just added the BS. But I'd say the women's studies classes are probably walking the Green Mile...not to mention classes like "Goddesses and Feminine Powers" and similar classes.

As for the confidentiality agreements...I don't think they had a choice...granted, that doesn't stop one of them from "accidentally" leaving the list of axed positions out where their significant other can find it....

lizphiz July 2 2007, 14:13:01 UTC

It sure as hell doesn't feel like my school anymore. They've killed my school. My school wouldn't do a blanket layoff like that. And those people they fired, whoever they are, were, I'm sure, essential to the college, if they were people like Paul. I worked with Paul. Those people they fired interacted with students, and made their lives easier (we hope), and so they were every bit as important as the faculty.

(Ironically, I remember a conversation with Paul's wife right after they announced the decision...in which she said she was fine with it, because if more students came, that would mean Paul's job was safe, and so she could keep taking classes there. Man.)