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waste of dollars
Well at least the students at the Scout have their eyes on this fiscal mess.
The fact that the prez is making almost twice what her predecessor makes without nearly the experience of Broski.....is stunningly obnoxious to the faculty and staff of BU. Folks with little to no raises... And yet JG adds to her layers of admin support...speechwriters and a "spokesperson" is outrageous.
JG's compensation versus performance is so unequal. Down enrollment, poor financial performance, expenses going higher, paying people to leave and be quiet, and decision after decision that favor her and are not in the best interest of the university.
What's very enlightening ....is the fact that the Scout staff have history enough with the Admin to announce in the article that they expected to be trashed for providing facts and their opinions. -
Agree with your points here. It's a shame these weren't better written so they could be effective, I'm afraid they may miss their mark because they aren't cohesive and don't succinctly present a point. I applaud the attempt though, the BU Scout hasn't challenged the administration or status quo in a meaningful way since I've been reading.Originally posted by Bravesfanchicago View PostComment
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Was 2013 or this year the last year we're on the hook to pay our former coaches contract. I really would like to know what the Board of Trustees criteria was for justifying Madame President's 12% increase other than, "Based on performance and the Board's goals and expectations."Comment
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The JL contract ends this year.Comment
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Here is a followup column in the Bradley Scout ..some very interesting opinions...
"....less money for us
....Our esteemed “best value” college experience is in jeopardy of being
crushed by the poor fiscal decision-making of a few. I’m speaking, of course,
about the recent awareness of how money is being misspent by the
university’s administrative offices and has been over the past few years.
For example, the combined salaries of University President Joanne Glasser
and men’s basketball Coach Geno Ford total more than $1 million. These
numbers have only increased year after year, and coincidentally, so has
tuition. Plus, this has occurred without increasing merit scholarships of
returning students.
Despite the obvious question of why a person needs to make that much
money to begin with, a much more pertinent inquiry unfolds: how has the
academic state of Bradley University, as well as the student body, been
affected by these decisions?
For starters, while the administrative staff spent time and effort raising
money for our new Alumni Center ($12 million) and Renaissance Coliseum
($51.1 million), academic and scholarly branches in dire need of assistance
were ignored or otherwise deemed unimportant.
Our library, which has appeared in the Princeton Review’s category of “This is
a Library?” more than once, is in shambles and in great need of updated
resources, which would only benefit our academic progress as a student
body.
Other departments across campus also find their budgets contain too few dollars
to fully fund student research projects, which then limit and inhibit the potential
collegiate achievements of individual students.
.... decisions made by a few, which are negatively impacting the general
Bradley community. To all this some may ask, “So what?”, which is a much
welcomed question."
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Board of Trustees are you reading this? You better act soon before the integrity of the University is destroyed not only athletically but also academicallyComment
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