tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187403837913738089.post9081800333879655597..comments2023-12-15T02:26:43.878-06:00Comments on CSU Faculty Voice: September in ReviewPhillip Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05105319296231539370noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187403837913738089.post-39166319627197935472016-10-05T09:18:45.324-05:002016-10-05T09:18:45.324-05:00Maybe MsChem'a complete comment should be post...Maybe MsChem'a complete comment should be posted in as many places as possibleEducatorwhomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13584042304642554031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187403837913738089.post-63197987233847946022016-10-05T07:16:06.006-05:002016-10-05T07:16:06.006-05:00So what positive do you propose?So what positive do you propose?Educatorwhomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13584042304642554031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187403837913738089.post-38541913161233057612016-10-03T22:49:07.573-05:002016-10-03T22:49:07.573-05:00I am terribly sorry what you went through. Every ...I am terribly sorry what you went through. Every single person responsible for each wrong decision needs to be held accountable under law. Document and record everything here on. Don't get entangled because truth and reason mean as much to csu admins as they did to Hitler. Your real fight is to keep focus on your highest goals. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187403837913738089.post-11914911779174985782016-10-03T21:16:53.890-05:002016-10-03T21:16:53.890-05:00I am terribly sorry what you went through. Every ...I am terribly sorry what you went through. Every single person responsible for each wrong decision needs to be held accountable under law. Document and record everything here on. Don't get entangled because truth and reason mean as much to csu admins as they did to Hitler. Your real fight is to keep focus on your highest goals. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187403837913738089.post-55537743642078563982016-10-03T20:48:57.840-05:002016-10-03T20:48:57.840-05:00It is so distressing to hear MissChem's report...It is so distressing to hear MissChem's report on conditions in Nursing, which did good work for many years. (In what area is the "provost's" "Ph. D."?) Could the Senate help bring some of this to light? It deserves yet a wider audience than it gets in this comment section. Perhaps MissChem's comment could be published as a blog post? Or both publish it and a Senate inquiry?Paul Gomberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10532991282987477464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187403837913738089.post-58161889631672139062016-10-03T10:57:34.310-05:002016-10-03T10:57:34.310-05:00I'm a senior nursing student and we are being ...I'm a senior nursing student and we are being charged $175/credit hour for nursing fees. It's not $2500 per year. This is what I've been charged so far:<br />Fall 2015: $2,100<br />Spring 2016: $2,450<br />Fall 2016: $2,625<br />There were approximately 25-43 students per nursing class. (Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors...) Do the math.<br /><br />We were told this money would go to improving the nursing resource lab. Lies!!!!! We have clinical simulators that we've never used because no one in the department knows how to use them, and they won't let us touch them. Last Friday, some students and a few faculty started "cleaning out" our nursing lab. Some of the stuff in there was so old, one of our instructors said to throw it away because it was against Joint Commission standards and banned in healthcare. <br /><br />We have a nursing computer lab that we rarely have access to because there's nobody to "watch us" while we're in there. We're expected to help save people's lives but we can't be trusted to use a computer lab designated for us.<br /><br />The nursing website...not being maintained at all! Scholarships from 2009 still there. This is a research institution yet no research is being done in this department, nor are there any active grants. <br /><br />We just started clinical in the sixth week of an eight week course due to the lack of malpractice insurance. The department chairperson told us it was paid in June but the university didn't have the "certificate in hand." The clinical site surely won't want to hire us after graduation because they already associate CSU with unprofessionalism.<br /><br />Our class was never provided a nursing handbook but they enforce policies from a handbook we don't have, and when we ask for it...crickets. They change grading criteria AFTER the class has ended and retroactively fail people, which is just a way to generate more money because then people register for a mandatory remedial course. <br /><br />They refused to grant credits as laid out in the course catalog for CNAs, LPNs, and RNs that enter the program, so they essentially made people take classes they would have received credit for. And why is the university offering an unaccredited MSN program?<br /><br />Our department chairperson is also running the Wellness Center, one of only 2 employees that have been with CSU for at least 2 years. All the faculty have left the university. We have 3 nursing faculty that instruct for the entire department.<br /><br />And these are just a FEW of the shenanigans going on in that department. Unfortunately, we don't have anyone to turn to because everyone is either crooked or too scared to advocate for us. Hurry up May 11, 2017!!!!!<br /><br /><br />MissChemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10511012273798540294noreply@blogger.com