By: Opponent of privatization

Opponent of privatization
Mon, 09 Nov 2015 04:27:34 +0000

In reply to Tenure," target="_blank" title="/2015/10/letter-to-the-editor-privatization-isnt-always-the-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-98275">Tenure,">/2015/10/letter-to-the-editor-privatization-isnt-always-the-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-98275">Tenure, anyone?. Interesting but ultimately misguided comments from "Tenure, anyone?". You're right that distressingly many faculty don't participate in university governance (but not because they want to become administrators). And you're right that those without tenure, or not yet promoted to full professor, had plenty of reason to sit on the sidelines during the privatization discussion. Yet in fact many of those had the courage to speak out anyway. Somehow you seem to think that the administration would have paid attention to the faculty if ... what? You're delusional if you think a "university is just a business" administration like OSU has had for years now will ever pay any attention to faculty input on issues like this. The parking privatization decision had already been made and sanctioned by the Board of Trustees before anyone on the faculty even heard about the idea.