5/27/2011: From his last speech as Senate Pres:
We are hanging on to our top tier research classification by the thinnest of hairs. …
The status of our instructional mission is also tenuous. We have increased the number of students from 17,000 to 24,500 in the past 15 years, a 44% increase. During the same period, the number of full time tenure track faculty has increased by 5%. …
… The Central Administration needs to value the work done by faculty and others within the governance system and to bring various stakeholder groups to the table before decisions are made, not after the fact.
Dog the Redundant reminds
Yes THE BOTTOM LINE is that since
the expansion of student enrollment
the UO has not made any where near the commensurate investment in new faculty lines.
This obviously
a) is stupid
b) really hurts our research enterprise
c) means proportionately less faculty teach students
d) is no way to run a University
e) did I say this was stupid?
f) all of the above