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Faculty Senate Newsletter, March 2015 Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons Newsletter Faculty Senate 3-2015 Faculty Senate Newsletter, March 2015 Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/senate-pubs Recommended Citation Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, "Faculty Senate Newsletter, March 2015" (2015). Newsletter. Paper 41. http://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/senate-pubs/41 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Senate at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Newsletter by an authorized administrator of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Volume 6, Issue 6 March 31, 2015 has manifested itself in the form TABLE OF CONTENTS of a traveling, ambitious governor who is never present to make deci- President’s Column…...1 In times like the present, the offhand suggestion sions or provide direction, but, in Higher Education Headliner; Funk-Inducing Fac- that “it doesn’t really matter” comes across as crude past times, what might be called toid ………………………………………………..2 and unfeeling, a kind of cheap cynicism voiced by a the “buck stops here point” has Answer Experts Anticipate Efficiency; Bell Rings privileged person in the midst of other people’s strug- also been empty, whether through in on International Travel Change; Space-Carving gles. Such a flip remark seems doubly dubious when corruption, in which unseen inter- Campbell Cares for Faculty Cars; Revolving Door attached to questions so pressing as the current budget ests replace the sovereign authori- Kevin Cope to Success Whirls in Middleton…….………….….3 crisis. Yet, in some sad sense, this idiom applies ty, or idealism, per the administra- Legislator’s Pledge Sprouts from Professorial Grass exactly to the situation in which fund-starved univer- tion of Buddy Roemer, where nothing happened ow- Roots; Activist Ott Organizes Counter-Assault; sities find themselves. Momentarily setting aside the ing to faith in a future that never arrived. Louisiana, Mann Fires Shot Heard Around Our Part of the stress and anxiety experienced by thousands of nobly- after all, is the last state modeled after the French World ……………………………………………..4 intentioned professionals and other university em- monarchy and the Roman imperium. When the last A.G.’s Corner………...…………………………....5 ployees, one can, without callousness, affirm that no step in the command chain is god (or the gods) but A.G.’s Corner Con’t; Correction and Apology; Ad sum of money will solve the budget crisis until the the state itself is secular, the top is, perforce, missing. for Statewide Higher Education Demonstration ….6 fundamental management problem of all Louisiana In the day-to-day life of academic administration, Intellectual Property Debate Both Heating and public institutions, what might be called the “topless the “absent top” phenomenon works itself out in con- Cooling; Over the Rainbow Goes Salt and a Little pyramid” challenge, is addressed. figurations such as the new “oneLSU,” which has Lemon; Grambling Coalition Calls for Conservator; Although the proportions of the current fiscal resulted not in the emergence of a single academic Jindal Prayer Rally Proves Net Loose for State ......7 crisis exceed all preceding threats to public education, powerhouse but in a captain-free flagship campus that Foreign Lands, But Not Languages; LSU Reveille that crisis has had many predecessors, whether those everyone regards as rudderless, a flagship that is sur- Renews Salary List, Tells the Full Story; Ad for arising from boom-bust cycles in the chemical indus- rounded by an array of lesser vessels—the regional LSUnited ………….……………………………....8 tries, those related to natural disasters, those arising campuses—waiting for the big ship to make some Lifestyle Feature…………………………………..9 from national economic crises such as the mortgage- kind of move. At Southern University, the absent-top Where There’s Fire, There’s Smoke: LSU’s driven recession of 2008, or those triggered by the disorder appears in the form of the thought-abjuring Tobacco Wars; Fletcher Technical College Takes insouciance of Louisiana’s education-unimpaired desire to imitate what LSU has done so badly. At the the Plunge with BP; Add for Budget Forum…......10 leadership. In all these earlier upheavals as in the LCTCS, the inability to find the top authority appears Higher Education Forum Bags Kudos for Sonya present perturbation, university management has as the frantic drive to get money from miscellaneous Hester; Convincing Kirylo Announces Education adopted a sometimes shrill and reactive, sometimes industrial donors while coming up with whatever passive and placating approach to dealing with both Forum in Southeastern Louisiana; CLCU Restores program will please a workforce development author- New Orleans to Pinnacle ………………………...11 lawmakers and governors. Worried that too aggres- ity that is itself barely in view of a governor who is sive or assertive a posture will irritate the top level of Ad for Veterinary School………………………...12 busy chasing an elusive top position. Lifestyle Feature con’t; Retirement Plan Lawsuit government—as clearly occurred when former LSU As a first step toward resolving the chase after an Updated and Amended; LSUnited Budgeting Forum System President John Lombardi peppered the capitol invisible top, universities need to flatten their own Draws Full House………………………………..13 halls with his special brand of erudite invective— pyramidal structures. One option might be an inter- State Funding: What You Should Know………..14 system presidents, campus chancellors, and all those locking system of accountability. Instead of a single Monthly Movie Review..….…………………......15 under their sway have avoided overt disagreement chain in which a chair answers to a dean who reports with or attacks on those who, through their actions, to a provost who tries to stay in favor with a president Monthly Movie Review con’t…………………....16 bring universities to, if not ruin, then at least derelic- who dangles from the governor’s yo-yo string, uni- Guest Columns—Books Get Their Due: LSU Li- tion. The result, of course, has been decades of par- versities might ask a council of deans to evaluate brary News; Students and Faculty Plan Letter- tial formula funding owing to a reluctance to bite the financial services and auxiliary services while asking Writing Campaign …………………………….....17 hand that feeds only starvation rations. auxiliary services and the business college to evaluate Rallo Rally Rolls; Vlosky Reports Awards Bonan- The rhetoric of caution is not uncommon among the performance of an assortment of departments— za; Tip of the Month: Party Central Miniature Golf, the current tribe of hothouse academic leaders, most and so forth, in a multifaceted, interlocking arrange- Shreveport/Bossier…………...………………..…18 of whom have received a hybridized education from ment that creates multiple perspectives on the various Shreveport-Bossier Business Alliance Drafts Pro- questionable programs either in “educational leader- units and that keeps the top of the pyramid in view, Higher-Education Online Petition; Reader Submit ship” or in some pruning-ready branch of public poli- that converts the administrative into a kind of Mobius Reports, Ask Newsletter to Advance Inquiries; cy studies. What is unique to Louisiana is a persistent strip where the surface—reality—is always in view. Graduate School Medical Insurance Costs vacancy at the top of the pyramid of deference (and Such an arrangement might or might not work with Skyrocket ……………………………………….19 sycophancy). Louisiana higher education is highly state government, but it certainly could help institu- Guest Column: Not Suffering in Silence: Town pyramidal, with clear command lines ranging through tions that, in any case, receive less than half their Hall Meetings at McNeese……………………….20 definitive ranks all the way up to the governor him- resources from public funds. self or occasionally herself, yet the peak of the pyra- mid is usually absent. In recent times, this absence 1 A lot of people have the idea that all librarians do mission of education and access has not changed; only is sit around and read books all day. If those people the medium has. Russo sees the advent of electronic had met Mike Russo, they would not make this mis- databases and online catalogs as a great improvements take. Russo is a man who likes to stay active, so he over the bad old days of 3x5 cards in the often confus- needed a job other than his previous position as a par- ing drawers of a card catalog. In addition, distance Mike Russo alegal in New Orleans where he felt like he was doing, learning gives students far greater access to life- as he says, “exactly nothing.” With this in mind, Rus- enriching information than they could have in the days so consulted a career counsellor and found that he when one had to venture inside a library’s physical “had to do something with books.” That meant basi- domain to research topics of interest. The challenge cally one of two things, attempting to make a living at now is not so much how to read a card catalog, but writing, using his MFA, or becoming a librarian by how to wade through the vast morass of information. earning his MLIS. The former seemed an unlikely “People don’t know what they don’t know,” he says. career path, as he was not blessed with the surname of With the library’s mission of education and access Clancy or Rowling, so he settled on librarianship. clear, Russo believes that the institution will endure. Long before extended learning was popular, Russo In addition to his work for the library, Russo is a did his MLIS remotely through Louisiana State Uni- believer in the collective power of labor to create posi- versity (LSU) while living in New Orleans. He was tive change, and he has been the principal force be- then able to apply for two positions, one through the hind LSUnited for some time now.
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