[ale] [OT] Merger of Southern Polytechnic State with Kennesaw State

[David Tomaschik]

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Dylan Northrup <ale at doc-x.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:18 PM, David Tomaschik <david at systemoverlord.com
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> I don't know that KSU and SPSU merging is the right combination, but the
>> USG has 35 separate colleges/universities, each with its own administration
>> and administrative overhead -- maybe there's a better way to spend that
>> money?
>>
>
> How about step 1: Forget the football team.  Pretty sure that is and will
> be more than a drop in the bucket represented by the president's cabinet
> you detailed.  Merging in SPSU seems more like empire building than a move
> toward fiscal responsibility.  Larger institutions have a larger voice when
> talking with the USG and BoR for funding.
>
>
Yes, don't get me started on the football team.  IIRC, the announcement
that KSU was hiring a marketing firm to do a feasibility study for football
& the email informing me (an employee at the time) that I'd be forced to
take USG-mandated furlough days were so close together they might as well
have been one email.


> --
> Dylan Northrup
> "Adversity is just change we haven't adapted ourselves to yet."
>   - Aimee Mullins
>
>
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