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Faculty Senate Newsletter, Holiday 2014, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College
Faculty Senate Newsletter, Holiday 2014, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College
LSU Faculty Senate Publications
Message from President: Christmas, as it was called before it became a generic all-purpose “holiday,” is, at least in the propaganda of western cultures, all about universality: about the day when, so it seemed, the whole world lay at rest, when benefactions went out, if not to all mankind, at least to those on Santa’s good-person list. Christmas, indeed most any winter holiday, depends on the mass distribution of information: on everyone learning (a) that this is the day to keep calm and (b) what it is—what is the cultural and philosophical context—for at least a temporary peace. Everybody’s favorite …
Faculty Senate Newsletter, October 2014, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College
Faculty Senate Newsletter, October 2014, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College
LSU Faculty Senate Publications
Message from President: A prominent leader on a rather large Louisiana university recently opened his monthly letter to the campus community with an announcement, in bold-face type, that all may rejoice in the discovery that incoming students had averaged 25.82 on the ACT entrance examination. That, with two-digit decimal accuracy, while the retirement system sweeps away two-digit full-integer percentages of faculty retirement money and while more than two layers of paint peel away in almost every decaying academic building. Setting aside the obvious problems with the physical and economic conditions under which academic professionals toil, one can only wonder what …
Faculty Senate Newsletter, May 2014, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College
Faculty Senate Newsletter, May 2014, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College
LSU Faculty Senate Publications
Message from President: With the arrival of summer, colleagues in universities hither and yon will be headed somewhere else for part or all of the recess period. Providing refreshment, permitting research, and perhaps making the heart grow fonder for the home turf, these summertime itinerant intervals have long provided academic personnel with an emotional compensation that occasionally substitutes for the big economic gap in a nine-month salary. Zoroastrians everywhere suspect that good inevitably contrasts with counterpointing evil, and so it is that not every somewhere else is a full of fun, frolic, and fulfilment. Somewhere else might well be declared …
Faculty Senate Newsletter, April 2014, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College
Faculty Senate Newsletter, April 2014, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College
LSU Faculty Senate Publications
Message from President: If there were ever any doubt that the favorite virtue of higher education leadership is that of unanimity, skeptics would need to look no further than the apparent administrative lovefest that accompanied the announcement of the confidentlydenominated WISE plan (the “Workforce and Innovation for a Stronger Economy” blueprint), a loosely defined array of proposals and prophecies that center around the currently pending HB1033, sponsored by Lake Charles power broker Charles “Chuck” Kleckley. Wisdom might come at no charge other than that of study and experience,but the WISE plan strikes a hard bargain with academe: the ex nihilo …
Faculty Senate Newsletter, January 2014, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College
Faculty Senate Newsletter, January 2014, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College
LSU Faculty Senate Publications
Message from President: Throughout Louisiana and across several generations of administrators, it can easily be observed that an uptick in enthusiasm for student events and interactions inevitably precedes the end of a regime. When a president or chancellor begins appearing in student forums or develops a taste for dormitory chats, seasoned observers know that the end is near. Why? The correlation of concern for the budding youth with the end of the reigning generation points up what might be called the sometimes genial, sometimes tedious “childishness” of Louisiana higher education. Rather than calling for the political equivalent of extreme unction, …