CSU Faculty Voice: Reminder: it's all about the students!

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Reminder: it's all about the students!

Been thinking about this recently. For those of you not up on your French Revolutionary history this is an image of the clergy and aristocracy on the back of the peasantry from the 1789 era. Don't you think it makes a nice background for birobi's post today on 78 million reasons to keep Wayne Watson?

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Tom PaineMar 30, 2013, 3:12:00 PM
You ain't in the US no more. You on the Watson-Jones plantation.

Best set your mind to workin and keep your silly mouth shut.
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Professor PanchoMar 31, 2013, 11:59:00 AM
Corday,

Reminds me of Diego Rivera's murals all over Mexico depicting the conquistadores, priests and businessmen in their attempts to consolidate power over the indigenous and, later, mestizo, masses.
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Thanks to Haki Madhabuti

"1. He/she must be a scholar of national note, with significant peer review publications and books in his or her field. There must be no doubt as to his/her standing in the community of scholars. This would also include a history of the candidate’s participation in the appropriate professional organizations.

2. He/she must have served with distinction as the administrative head of a major unit within an institution of higher learning or at the important position of Provost and/or Dean. Of course, prior service at the presidential level is preferred.

3. He/she must have a documented history of raising significant monies from the private and public sectors. At most major and research one universities it is not unusual to expect the president to come with a plan to raise in excess of half a billion dollars or more in the first few years.

4. The prospective president must have a consensus buy-in from the faculty, students, administration and staff, therefore, arriving with a unity mandate to lead by joining a University community that has bought into his or her vision for the future."

From an open letter to the CSU Community, 2009.