The board voted unanimously...
Southern Illinois University trustees have approved a 2 percent tuition increase for students who enroll at the Carbondale campus for the 2018-2019 school year.
The board voted unanimously Thursday to raise tuition to an annual rate of $9,637.50 for undergraduates and $11,268 for graduates. The new rate will affect only new enrollees.
Sounds like the board is having a "private" meeting on Wednesday to discuss personnel and potential changes. Let's hope they're smart enough to get rid of the "gum" on the bottom of SIU's shoe, known as Randy Dunn. The guy has been collecting a paycheck and that's about it. It's time to end the $hit show.
Special public meeting with private session for personnel issues. Anyone see a For Sale sign in Dunn's yard yet?
It sounds like Judge Gilbert has left Dunn hanging. Stick a fork in him then. Not sure how we ended up with this guy. He was a dud at Murray, had job applications out across half the country, said Mo State was his dream job, wasn't renewed at Murray, was asked to leave at Youngstown. Pull the plug.
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I have seen nothing but a downward spiral on the Carbondale campus during his tenure.
Sounds like the board is having a "private" meeting on Wednesday to discuss personnel and potential changes. Let's hope they're smart enough to get rid of the "gum" on the bottom of SIU's shoe, known as Randy Dunn. The guy has been collecting a paycheck and that's about it. It's time to end the $hit show.
Would a new President hire a new Chancellor?
BOT votes not to split SIU.
Do you know what the vote count was? 4-3?
Sounds like the board is having a "private" meeting on Wednesday to discuss personnel and potential changes. Let's hope they're smart enough to get rid of the "gum" on the bottom of SIU's shoe, known as Randy Dunn. The guy has been collecting a paycheck and that's about it. It's time to end the $hit show.
Would a new President hire a new Chancellor?
That could happen, but one would hope that a new president would give each chancellor the opportunity to prove themselves. As far as I'm concerned, the verdict is still out on Montemagno's performance. He's had some mis-steps, but he is also tasked with driving monumental change at a government institution. From my perspective there are still too many individuals in Carbondale that are opposed to the drastic changes required to reinvigorate and reinvent the school. For those individuals, it's time to go.
Special public meeting with private session for personnel issues. Anyone see a For Sale sign in Dunn's yard yet?
It sounds like Judge Gilbert has left Dunn hanging. Stick a fork in him then. Not sure how we ended up with this guy. He was a dud at Murray, had job applications out across half the country, said Mo State was his dream job, wasn't renewed at Murray, was asked to leave at Youngstown. Pull the plug.
Dunn has been collecting a paycheck and from my perspective, I don't see any significant positive impact during his tenure at SIU. He is a lame duck. Kudos to the individual that exposed his agenda and ultimately started the proceedings to remove Dunn from his post. That being said, SIU can't afford any mis-steps on the future hire. Things have reached a mission critical nature from a financial perspective, from an enrollment perspective, and from an image perspective.
Sounds like the board is having a "private" meeting on Wednesday to discuss personnel and potential changes. Let's hope they're smart enough to get rid of the "gum" on the bottom of SIU's shoe, known as Randy Dunn. The guy has been collecting a paycheck and that's about it. It's time to end the $hit show.
Would a new President hire a new Chancellor?
That could happen, but one would hope that a new president would give each chancellor the opportunity to prove themselves. As far as I'm concerned, the verdict is still out on Montemagno's performance. He's had some mis-steps, but he is also tasked with driving monumental change at a government institution. From my perspective there are still too many individuals in Carbondale that are opposed to the drastic changes required to reinvigorate and reinvent the school. For those individuals, it's time to go.
The fact he cowered away from making the gutsy and needed call on Hucky pushed me to evaluate the restructuring plan to a deeper level than before. I didn't like what I found.
- No school in academia I ever found tried a restructuring this drastic.
- Nothing is wrong with STEM related majors at SIU, they are drawing in very well - if you look at the statistics, those colleges are drawing better than ever. It's places like Education, MCMA, and Liberal Arts where the disasters in enrollment are occurring. Those colleges are going to hand out degrees that don't provide ROI when ROI is needed with the amount of student loan debt students have to take on to get degrees here.
- None of it dealt with the core problem I've encountered in person with high school students from this area, which is that SIU has essentially priced them out. Most kids I talk to either don't see the point of a university education or would rather go to Murray or SEMO.
- Montemagno isn't proposing major cuts to the administrative apparatus outside of the elimination of colleges. Colleges are a line expense. Other administrative things need to get cut before we start getting rid of colleges. Pushing together colleges like Ag and Business together along with MCMA and Liberal Arts would seem to be more productive. Getting rid of department chairs with the function they have in the academic process would do more harm than good, IMO. I've talked with SIU faculty about this, FWIW.
- He's already backed off the most drastic parts of this so it still leaves it unclear what he still wants.
Still waiting for word that Dunn has been fired. Let's go folks. SIU can't afford to wait any longer to start getting this university back on the right track. Dunn is toxic and by most accounts worthless. If SIU does nothing in this scenario more of the same will continue. How bad does it need to get before competent leadership is installed at SIU?
Still waiting for word that Dunn has been fired. Let's go folks. SIU can't afford to wait any longer to start getting this university back on the right track. Dunn is toxic and by most accounts worthless. If SIU does nothing in this scenario more of the same will continue. How bad does it need to get before competent leadership is installed at SIU?
What SIU needs is a retired politician with a lot of contacts.
“The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.”
-- Al McGuire
Interesting read, no mention of SIU, but parallels to SIU's problems are apparent, though as is the opportunities to be better and fix our problems.
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/06/heres-how-higher-education-dies/561995/
Go Dawgs!
Still waiting for word that Dunn has been fired. Let's go folks. SIU can't afford to wait any longer to start getting this university back on the right track. Dunn is toxic and by most accounts worthless. If SIU does nothing in this scenario more of the same will continue. How bad does it need to get before competent leadership is installed at SIU?
What SIU needs is a retired politician with a lot of contacts.
LOL!
I'm glad something replaced SalukiNation, otherwise I meant never clean my monitor screen again.....
Go Dawgs!
https://twitter.com/janisesch_SI/status/1004446512687009792
Breaking: SIU Board of Trustees has called a special meeting for Friday afternoon to discuss administrative leave of SIU President Randy Dunn and appointment of an acting president.
