Dean Rosalyn Carter, College of Architecture and Urban Planning
The University would be better served if Dean Carter would:
•resign, or be removed as Dean‐‐she is the cause of many ills ailing the college. She has no vision, plays favoritism, reverse discrimination,has no appreciation for scholarly excellence, obsessed with administrative control, views faculty as her personal servants, loses temper when faces critical views, insults faculty when they refuse to do unethical requests, and most importantly, she does not hesitate to take revenge by all means against faculty to express independent views that may threaten her tyrannical administrative practice‐‐she does not even hesitate to resort to dirtiest possible trick to destroy faculty members she can not stand.She is a tyrant and doe not belong in a university administration. It is a shame some one like her in administrative position‐‐she disgraces all good women and men in leadership position; what a shame that she is protected by means other than merit and decency.
•take over the graduate college when her term as Dean is up.
•treat people with more respect
Additional Comments about Dean Carter:
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Dean Manjunath Pendakur, College of Arts & Letters
The University would be better served if Dean Pendakur would:
•be relieved of his post.
•Be assisted by the University as a whole by providing the college with funds commensurate to our position in the University. Numerous studies show that leaders from a variety of fields (e.g., law, business, technology, medicine) are looking for people who have firm grounding in the Arts and Letters. FAU has historically done a disservice to their students by treating the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters as the poor relation. From faculty salaries and support to hazardous facilities, the AL College has been forced to do more with less while funds are distributed to create vanity projects elsewhere.
•fire his associate deans who have no credibility, apologize to his departmental chair’s for his demeaning manner toward them, and then resign immediately, take a year off and seek serious counseling about how to conduct himself in a collegial manner
•resign.
•Work towards including faculty in college governance, take faculty points of view into account, and listen more to others in decision‐making.
•Leave, take all the jobs he pretends he was offered. Saving that, be honest with the faculty, admit when he is not the expert, stop pretending he is open and consultative, and allow scholars to do their work without his interference and his pretense that he knows more about their subjects than they do. He is not a competent academic.
•Learn how to give praise to his faculty and not simply criticism.
•resign.
•resigned immediately
•Be less of a micro‐manager. Allow (and accommodate) dissenting viewpoints. A college cannot be conducted as a monologue. Dialogue is essential.
•Acknowledge that he has failed to gain the confidence of the vast majority of his faculty and step down
•Leave FAU immediately
•resign.
•State his agenda/goals clearly.
•resign as Dean.
•Stop micromanaging and trust his department chairs.
•trust his faculty to make the best decisions for their departments based on their knowledge of their fields. For example, in hiring, he regularly questions our ability to properly evaluate a candidate’s credentials. Our chair has to spend far too many hours defending our decisions.
•be relieved of the job of Dean permanently.
•Publicly apologize for his abusive behavior
•fired
•be removed, as he is clearly in a position in which he is over his head.
•Resign. As one who supported his hiring, I realize now we made a big mistake
•Listen to faculty.
•leave the college. He is capricious, racist, Anti‐Semitic, misogynist, and a cruel man.
•Continue to push faculty to provide higher quality mentoring to graduate students. Implement more student assessment, after Freshman year, and perhaps again during Junior year. Entrance “criteria,” grade inflation and lack of assessment puts students at severe disadvantage.Reevaluate the allocation of funds to UCEW and Writing Across the Curriculum.
•continue his professional approach to promoting the college in the university and broader public domain. His encouragement of program development is an exceptionally important asset for the college.
•count on more support from the Provost’s Office.
•Approach faculty, departments etc not as a dictator, but as a dean.
•stay the course and even be a little more strict with dead weight faculty, especially the “eminent” scholars who only bitch and moan but are hardly scholars, much less eminent.
•Mend fences with alienated faculty. This would help him extend his own administration. Recognize that most faculty are seriously over‐extended. This and the extreme budget crisis hurt our ability to pursue research. He overworks the chairs to the point that no one wants the position. Faculty who no longer research SHOULD be asked to take on more service to help ease the burden.
•be more active in examiniation of the policies and procedures of an English Department that uses “fear” tactics to “control” the thoughts and actions of the instructor group.
•be rassigned to a faculty position.
•Resign and leave the university
•Give up his “my way or the highway” approach to dispute resolution; stop acting like a thug ‐‐ yelling at people, threatening them; stop badmouthing the university at every turn; stop acting as if he’s the only person in the college who can recognize academic quality; respect the departments’ expertise and stop interfering in hiring decisions (Who made him an expert in every one of the disciplines? Why is he better‐qualified to judge the quality of a candidate than senior people in the field?); pay some attention to fiscal prudence rather than assuming that John Pritchett will step in and save us from every threat. Everyone knew that a perfect fiscal storm was coming but he wanted to hire, hire, hire. He could have built a bit of a buffer but he didn’t try. He chose to rely on JP to save us and JP can’t do it every time.
•resign.
•(1) Stop using the management principle of “beatings will continue until morale improves.” He is a martinet, not a leader. He gets ticked off easily when you question him, no matter how diplomatically you do it. He is defensive and quick to make accusations. He wants to give orders and get results. That doesn’t work too well at a university. (2) Show some respect for the people he works with. He has invested no effort in learning about disciplines other than his own. He thinks that he is smarter and more insightful than faculty who are fully his equals as scholars and teachers. He does not consult: he dictates. He talks a lot about collegiality, but that’s about it. (3) Stop pretending that the fiscal problems of the college don’t exist. He has done nothing to plan for the upcoming budget crunch. Playing “chicken” with summer school isn’t a plan. It is just a strategy. I could say the same thing about cutting back on the advising staff. It was a stupid move but he seems to have been rewarded for it by getting money for new advising positions. (Can it really be the case that the provost is that easily scammed?) This dean runs away from the tough problems. He does not think about the future and only considers the financial short term. (4) Work harder and smarter. He arrives late, takes long lunches, and leaves early. He is notorious for not responding to emails. He is notorious for never being on time for an appointment. It is hard to work with him. He won’t put anything in writing. He doesn’t remember things very well but he never seems to take notes. Even when he is the one who has forgotten something, he blames the
ensuing problem on someone else. So, he isn’t a leader and he isn’t even a very good manager.
•question upper‐level administrators’ budgetary shell games and propaganda.
•Dean Pendakur joined the college at an inauspicious time and has joined a team of like‐minded administrators who have seen the need to bring FAU into the twenty‐first century in a professional and practical manner. Many may have felt comfortable in the “wink and a nod” manner in which policies were created and implemented in the past; they need to realize that the students are not served by those who wish to protect their “fiefdoms” and perks without putting forth the effort. I applaud Dean Pendakur’s fair‐minded but practical approach in dealing with the necessary changes that needed (and need to be made).
•Dean Pendakur is without doubt the absolute worst administrator/dean that FAU has probably ever hired. Not only is he unschooled in handling the juducious decisions concerning the college budget, but also has very little administrative style or credibility as a leader. In the short time he has been at FAU he has managed to thoroughly demoralize the faculty of the college, make extremely poor decisions about budget and personnel matters, and hides behind his insecurity so much so that he centralizes in himself practically all decisions thinking he alone is capable of making decisions. His associate deans should be fired. This small space in no way provides enough space to do justice to the travesty that is this dean is to the college
•I think Dean Pendakur has good intentions in trying to make the College more competitive, and he has obviously been saddled with a terrible budget situation. But he needs to moderate his management style and be more open to other points of view or he risks completely losing the support of the faculty he is leading.
•He is a disaster, another bad choice by Arts and Letters. We just can’t seem to get a decent Dean, which may have something to do with the way the administration views Arts and Letters. He has been accused many times of being sexist, which he obviously is, self‐involved (he believes any and all actions reflect on him rather than the college or the faculty) and he speaks out of many sides of his mouth. What is shocking is the way he is willing to speak badly of faculty to other faculty, with no regard for the demands of leadership. It is becoming painfully clear that the complaints about him at his former institution were true, and that we must get better at researching our choices before we wish them into office. He is acting just as they claimed that he did, and why we did not believe it is hard to know. Perhaps we were just too desperate to get a Dean into place and glad to get rid of the last one. A decent Dean would make all the difference in the world to this College. Perhaps what we need to do is combine Arts and Sciences and go outside for someone who had a good reputation and can provide good leadership. What we have is yet another self‐interested and self‐involved career bureaucrat who does not understand academics and works only for himself. It is a sad and bad situation. The faculty is just as alienated as when the past dean was here, if not worse. It is too bad that the higher administration is too incompetent to see what has happened, and one can only hope that the first thing the new President does is get rid of the Provost and his dictatorial nonsense (and the famous “360” evaluations” of the Deans ‐‐ in our case he started out the faculty meeting by stating that he didn’t care what the faculty thought) and get at least one or two competent people in. The Dean’s office, once again, is a cesspool.
•Dean Pendakur is anti‐female, anti‐Asian, and anti‐semetic. That’s just the beginning of his lengthy list of crude biases. He brings fear to colleagues; I dread going to campus for fear of encountering him. Dean Pendakur is destructive of the college and the departments. His assoc. deans are incompetent‐‐people who barely secured promotion and now write rules for serious scholars and instructors. It’s a pathetic situation.
•He is an intelligent and diligent Dean. Yet he might show more respect for the faculty as colleagues. He seems to trust only a few.
•Behind the facade of bonomie is a frightened and nasty little man who should just go away.
•Dean Pendakur is a bully.
•Is supportive of research which is appreciated.
•Dean Pendakur does not treat faculty members with the basic politeness that someone in his position should display. His manner is often insulting. Moreover, he frequently makes very negative comments about Jews and women that are uncalled for, offensive, and should be unacceptable in his administrative position of leadership.
•Unjustly fired a faculty member in his first year because the chair asked him to. didn’t like the faculty member. DID NOT CARE; DID NOT LOOK INTO THE CASE. Has a long history of sexism ‐‐ had this problem in his former position, too.
•The best Dean we have had since I have been at FAU!
•Uses intimidation with senior female faculty, calling them into his office, closing the door, and yelling at them if they don’t go along with his ideas. Interferes with academic prerogatives that belong to the faculty. Interferes with the dissertation process in a way that degrades the faculty who serve on committees and degrades the work of students. Dislikes and often refuses to deal with students when they have legitimate complaints and has taught his staff to act likewise. Constantly insults the faculty. Takes over Faculty Assembly meetings whenever he feels like it, violating Robert’s Rules of Order. There is no forum where the faculty can speak freely. Has poor administrative and managerial skills. Makes decisions on the fly. Often makes changes for not reason, without knowledge of university regulations, and in an authoritarian manner. He is mean and nasty and talks about faculty members in public forums.
Additional Comments about Dean Pendakur
•He involves himself in faculty activities on many occasions far more than usual for a dean. He is friendly to faculty. He seems to care about what happens to us.
•Dean Pendakur is a weak and inept manager, who is prone to public slurs against various national, racial, ethnic, and religious groups; to belittling faculty, students, and units as well as various institutions; and to bullying tactics and behavior. He has interfered with the promotion and tenure process on multiple occasions.
•The College would best be served if the upper administration and new President would seriously looking into the administrative record of Dr. Pendakur ‐ not only since he has been at FAU but at his former place of employment. In this review it would be highly advisable to consult with FAU’s University Ombudsman, the Associate Provosts and the Director of the Office of Equal Opportunity.
•Dean Pendakur, has at every opportunity failed to grasp the culture of the college and subculture of its many disciplines. His decisions are unpredictable, based on whim and kneejerk reactions without any clear understanding of the facts. He is afraid of upper administration and spends most of his time “handwringing”. He is unable to follow through and there is no sense of a vision for the college for which he has developed real consensis or support among the faculty. His administrative initiatives are weak and ill conceived, utimately causing more harm than good. He is clearly one of the worst deans the college has ever had. Ignorance and unpredicatability tied to pettyness is not a positive combination.
•I have been here over 20 years and I have never seen a Dean alienate so many of the faculty so quickly. He has no vision, has horrible people skills, and even fails to get some of the necessary administrative tasks done. I have tried to objective and supportive but he makes it very difficult. Obviously he has his own agenda which he does not share, but I assume it is about what would personally advance him. At best the faculty is learning on how to “work around” him to get things done.
•I cannot overstate the disastrous affect manju has had on the college. Morale is at an all‐time low. He has used a process of intimidation and scorn to enforce his will. Most damaging are his hostile remarks about various groups. He has stated that historically Black colleges are not as good as white colleges, he has disparaged the Old Testament, he has referred to a woman administrator as being unruly during “her time of the month,” he has made comments derogatory toward Mormons, Jews, African‐Americans, and women.
•Does a fine job of keeping the college informed about the financial difficulties that we continue to face.
•Dean Pendakur has done an amazing but largely thankless job raising the standards and helping make Arts & Letters a strong, more respected college. He has made enemies by stepping on entrenched fiefdoms and special interests but this happens when cleaning up years of corruption and favoritism that has been the bread and butter of past deans. In all he’s not perfect but a fantastic dean, especially when compared to what came before.
•He is a good Dean but not without fault.
•The English instructor group HAS NOT BEEN GIVEN A RAISE and Dean Pendakur should examine salaries and the work load the Enlish instructor group has a find we are UNDERPAID BY AT LEAST 10%. MLA recommendations state we have a “Right to a living wage and job security.” This does recommendation is ignored by the dean and the chair of the English Department. I would like him also to know that the English department BLOCKED the survey on all our office machines. Policies and procedures MUST BE ATTENDED TO in the ENGLISH DEPARTMENT.
•Autocratic and vindictive are adjectives that come to mind when considering the dean’s management style.
•He is such a disappointment. He interviews well and presents himself as a collegial leader but he’s proven to be a petty autocratic with little interest in the nuts‐and‐bolts of running a college (what on earth was he thinking when he decimated the advising staff?) and little ability to inspire the faculty to commit themselves to his initiatives. Morale drops when he enters a room, especially when he returns to his favorite theme of the superiority of almost every other university in the country to this benighted backwater. He seems to think that none of us care about quality in anything and that we need his cudgel to be forced to do our duty. He is wrong about that but he seems to need to feed his ego by denigrating those around him. He chases donor dollars with unparalleled dishonesty. Stories of his anti‐Semitic comments circulate widely even though he courts what he calls “Jewish money.” He disdains “Zionism” but chases the dollars of a pro‐Israel group for a Middle East Institute. I know that the university is broke, but what good will this earmarked money do for us? It will be a notch in his belt but won’t translate into any additional dollars for anything that most of the faculty care about. And, speaking of money ….. He is stingy with others and generous to himself (do you know what his computer screen cost? Do you know how much he has spent on international travel since he arrived?). He makes the claim that “the dean’s office” absorbed heavy initial cuts but all of us know that it’s a false claim. If I have to hear about how he only has a part‐time secretary one more time, I will throw myself from a high cliff. We all know that he hired Angela Lints full‐time and also has Shelly working part‐time. We all know that he has not endured any hardships as a consequence of his actions. The people who suffered from that first wave of cuts were the people working in the advising office and those affiliated with the PhD program. I agree that it is time to look hard at whether that PhD program is appropriate to the college, but even I think that his approach to destroying it has been ham‐handed, often downright cruel, and probably dishonest. He seems to want to rebuild it in his image, based on who came in to do the external review. That’s a real slap in the face to those who put in their time and energy. As I said earlier, he is a bit of a thug: slaps people around and then forces them to smile and pretend that all is forgiven. It is really sad that he has squandered the goodwill that he had upon his arrival. It is also really sad that we did such a poor job of hiring that we didn’t more thoroughly
investigate his past. I think that we would have learned that he had displayed these patterns at other institutions……
•A disastrous choice for a dean. The committtee who selected him should have taken more seriously the complaints about his leadership at SIU. All the same complaints are made about Dean Pendakur here. The problem is enhanced by the fact that he is now managing a larger college. He is strongly biased towards building the college in his own areas of academic interest. Dean Pendakur also has a disturbing tendency to publicly disparage faculty in the college who disagree with him or who he does not like; he is unable to respond favorably to constructive criticism and has little ability to consider plans or ideas that do not come first from himself. Nearly all of the department chairs in the college are afraid to question him or challenge him, resulting in ill‐conceived policies being handed down from dean to chairs to faculty with no sensible justification.
•I wouldn’t work closely with him if you gave me a chair’s salary.
Dean Michael Friedland, College of Biomedical Science
The University would be better served if Dean Friedland would:
•retire
•The most incapable leader ever.
Additional comments about Dean Friedland:
(No comments)
Dean Coates, College of Business
The University would be better served if Dean Coates would:
•Be provided with the resources that a college of business should have in a large, metropolitan area. Our college should be permitted to have a differential tuition pricing plan.
•Take an active role in motivating students to excel. Too many of our students are doing far too little in the classroom. Programs, policies, and atmosphere are needed to set higher standards for our students. The expectations students set for themselves are too low. Scholarship, commitment, and teamwork are values worthy of attention. Maybe a committee could be established to develop related initiatives.
•restored summer teaching to 2 courses for regular faculty
•Resign
•Consults more with faculty
•Work at doing the things a dean should do ‐ raise money, attend public events, network, etc. ‐ or resign.
•resign to be replaced with someone who isn’t trying to turn the COB into Nova.
Additional comments about Dean Coates:
•The best and most fair administrator I’ve seen to date in my career ‐ both in industry and in academia. He attempts to communicate, get “buy in”, solicit commentary and advice, etc. before making important decisions affecting our unit.
•I have been a faculty member at this university for some time. I truly have no idea what the vision for the college is. Dennis tells us every year that there is a crisis even when there wasn’t one so who knows when he cries wolf. The college seems adrift to me with no leadership, either at the college or department level. I don’t know what the mission or vision is and there is certainly no communication of that.
•Dean Coates is an excellent problem‐solver who works very hard to provide for the college is ever more difficult fiscl times.
•He is lazy and very biased.
Dean Valerie Bristor, College of Education
The University would be better served if Dean Bristor would:
•Be more of an advocate. Support faculty more.
•be more self confident. She takes advice from chairs who have their own interests in mind and not necessarily that of the college. Dr. Bristor is more likely to have the college goals in mind the the majority of her exec committee and should be confident the faculty will support her during times of disagreement with overly egotistical chairs vying for her position.
•Stop appointing poor quality leaders like Dr. Watlington and Dr. Ridener who never show up for work and make a lot of money. Watlington never is on the Northern campuses Evaluates her admin Poor run dissertations process and
•Develop a clear vision for our college and its place within the university. We do not have any idea of where we are headed or what the priorities really are/should be. What is the future of the COE? She needs a professional makeover to project herself as a knowledgeable scholar, administrator, and leader. She should be able to lead by example, but neither demonstrates scholarship through her own publication record nor her understanding of research. By now I would expect that she would know how to
dress professionally and to project a confidence within the university, the state, and the larger educational community. If I were a potential donor to FAU, she would not impress me or convince me that the COE has a worthy cause to support. We deserve a better representation than we are currently getting.
•Spend less money and time on decorating for Halloween and holidays. The Boca campus was an embarrassment, especially at Halloween. She is a truly nice person, but represents the College as if it is an elementary school. This is a university with adult learners, not a school with kids.
•Stop favoring her own dept. Follow state requirements and standards (If I provide specific constructive suggestions, my dept. will be revealed and we will face retaliation)
•Dean Bristor needs a stronger COE fundraiser/ development person to work with. She is not getting the support she needs.
•meet with faculty more often, be more visible, and conduct scholarly activity of her own
•Quit her post and Show moral courage.
•be more professional and considerate of our time and work loads
•Change the composition of the Associate Deans to include those with stronger academic credentials. The current team consists of pleasant and hardworking individuals, but we need some leadership. Continue to advocate publicly on behalf of education/ educators at the state level.
•recognizes faculty who carry the load
•Dr. Bristor has been looking for ways to save the college lots of money. If the Associate Dean for the northern campus returned to faculty status, there would be a saving of well over$ 100,000, and the department to which she is associated could pick up a needed faculty person. Faculty on the northern campuses frequently note that this Assoc. Dean is rarely seen or available, and the position is viewed as largely ceremonial. In these economic hardtimes, we do not need a ceremonial Associate Dean.
Additional comments about Dean Bristor:
•Gets along with everyone.
•Sometimes she does not take decisive action when she could and should. That’s a shame and should know, she will usually enjoy the support of faculty when needed, particularly if she uses her positional power to rid the college of over egotistical admins who are not working toward college goals or subverting her work. The climate in the COE is terrible and always has been beginning with Aloia. What a shame she doesn’t work toward reversing his athoratative vindictive trends but instead, allows some of that to continue across the college. Should FAU COE faculty really be afraid to disagree with those in power or speak openly provided that when critical, they also propose solutions.
•Too last minute poor planning plays favorites
has incompetent, weak, and admin who do not care allows for a mediocre work environment She needs to evaluate ALL her admin like Assoc dean’s of branch campuses, as Dr. Watlington is never at the northern campuses Allows her chairs like Dr. Mclaughlin, to treat people, both faculty and students rudely and unprofessionally‐‐‐he should be fired. her admin are unprofessional
•We need a strong advocate for resources including faculty lines, travel support, and research. We have been the cash cow for this university for a long, long time. We’ve had lines disappear without explanation or a hope of getting them back. You have been at FAU your entire professional career and are well aware of promises made to us in the past that we should now be able to collect upon.
•Dr. Bristor was a wonderful associate dean and, I admit, is much better than Greg Aloia in so many ways. She understands the value of “process” and appears to be emotionally stable.
•She is fair, ethical, seeks to understand problems and works collegially to find solutions. Has an excellent grasp of the finances of the College and the inner workings of the departments.
•Always friendly and cheerful.
•She is fair, supportive, and collaborative. She has set a climate where faculty and staff can function optimally.
•we appreciate the attention to the education building ‐ cleanliness and paint make a huge difference.
•Dean Bristor runs the college as if she were running an elementary school. Which would be fine, if the college was an elementary school. But it is not. She doesn’t value or use faculty input‐‐often circumventing faculty processes when a big decision is to be made. Not, in my opinion, the way to run a college.
•A poor visionary and a poor leader.
•Stop calling meetings at the last minute, only one business day before the meeting date. Stop allowing your admins and chairs to treat the faculty and students poorly with bad attitudes and rude, Dr. Jim Mclaughlin is very rude and gives way too much attitude to other faculty and our grad. students
•She is a good administrator, who tries to be fair and is easy to work with. That said, we still are living with the outcomes of BAD personnel decisions she made as interim dean and as associate dean, which she cannot reverse and are thus detrimental to the college. I want to commend her for her advocacy in Tallahassee on behalf of education/ educators.
•she is fair and concerned. She is not an obvious fighter for faculty rights but works very hard behind the scenes. She is not a glory hound she really cares.
•Dr. Bristor keeps in touch with faculty and is accessible, but faculty concerns are merely listened to but not acted upon. There is a chair of a large department who is not competent but is a long time friend of Dr. Bristor; consequently the chair will not be replaced. The evaluation of that chair by tenure/tenure track faculty was quite negative, yet that person will continue. The chair has just recently proved her incompetence once again holding a 6 hour “retreat” without an agenda and run in a very unprofessional manner.
Dean Karl Stevens, College of Engineering
The University would be better served if Dean Stevens would:
•be fired
•Retire
•pack up and leave
•resign
•resign
•Fired.
•work with faculty
•Resign or be fired.
•be fired.
•retire
•Include more faculty input in decision making
•consult with the faculty before making important decisions like reorganizing the College or laying off faculty (even if these decisions are later reversed).
•resign
•establish the maximum 3 years for the associate deans to serve;replace the current ones;introduce the rule according to which asociate chairs are elected by faculty;publish college‐wide rules on number of courses taught by faculty;meet faculty regularly;establish having office hours in both building.
•retire effective immediately
•resign from his position
Additional comments about Dean Stevens:
•The reorganization of the college was ill‐conceived. Much of the implementation has been poorly managed. In the process, Dean Stevens has become more and more isolated from his faculty.
•worse dean ever
•It is time for a new approach and new blood in the college
•He destroyed the research and graduate programs in the college.
•nice person
•He has caused much distrust between faculty and the Administration.
•no honesty, no integrity and no shame.
•The reorganization of the College without faculty input, especially the establishment of the “functional units” and their use in the layoffs of tenured faculty, was a disaster. He seems like a nice guy. It’s too bad he got mixed up in this mess.
•Dean stevents established the so called ‘leadership program where not a single leadership course is taught;the director of the leadership program has no doctorate,or even a masters degree in leadership;dean promotes mediocricy.
•1) The layoff of five tenured professors based on bogus reorganization cannot be forgotten and forgiven. 2) Totally ineffective laid back academic leader 3) Over the years he instituted a deeply rooted culture of totally ignoring faculty.
•The way he (i) laid of 5 tenured faculty last year; (ii) created bogus functional units; (iii) abolished those bogus units; telling everything was well accomplished; (iv) recruited unqualified person to head one of the functional units (v) gave no criteria for accommodating the set of faculty in each unit; and so make him unbecoming of a dean and a leader
Dean Jeffrey Buller, Honors College
The University would be better served if Dean Buller would:
•be reassigned to a different position in which he could spend his time on scholarship rather than administration
•Be given greater authority over campus resources so that the campus can be run more efficiently. As the only high level administrator physically on the campus it makes sense to have the Dean coordinate financial, student, and academic services.
•Liase with his faculty more, pay more than lip‐service to them.
•leave the Honors College
•Be more proactive about staffing problems so that they don’t continue to plague the college. I would also like to see the Dean resume his practice of “rounds”, walking around the college, visiting with faculty, seeing what we are doing, so that he could know what concerns us, and also see what we are giving to the college.
Additional comments about Dean Buller:
•he is a great self‐promoter, but really isn’t all that interested in the Honors College or FAU.
•The dean does a good job standing up for the existence of the college against other administrators
•I think he has gotten much better about informing the faculty about what is going on at University meetings that affect the Honors College, which has improved the atmosphere. I think I now spend much less time worrying about that sort of stuff than I used to, because previously most of that info circulated via the gossip grape‐vine, and we all know how reliable that is.
Dean Anne Boykin, College of Nursing
The University would be better served if Dean Boykin would:
•Establish standard for performance for both students and faculty and used them instead of basing decisions on who is her friend or who is willing to do her dirty work. She uses people and tosses them aside when they express theor own thoughts.
•Continue as Dean
•Be availabale to spend more time with the faculty ‐her many obligations require her attention. She is a valued member of our scholastic community.
•Not even think about retirement ‐ I really worry about what will happen when she leaves.
•Developed some standards for the college and enforced them. Didn’t promote her friends and reward those who don’t intimidate her.
Additional Comments about Dean Boykin:
•She should not be allowed to retire!
•Outstanding
•She is resistent to new ideas. She is resistent to letting members of the college or the university community to use the space in the college of nursing building. There are rooms in the college that only she and her inner circle are allowed to use (i.e. ‐ the center for caring, the sacred space).
•Dr. Dean Boykin is a beloved Dean who is supportive of all her faculty. She is a distingushed scholar of nursing and whom we are all most proud.
Dean Gary Perry, College of Science
The University would be better served if Dean Perry would:
•Have placed his name in the presidental search.
•I’d find it desirable if Dean Perry could be more present in departments when it comes to important decisions, in particular regarding hiring: Just to make sure that people hired on tenure‐track positions actually have a degree in a research area represented by the department.
•continue as Dean
•Our college must become proactive in raising its academic standards.I waste too much time and effort trying to teach mathematics to students that are unable to pass even a single exam. The poor students come from within our college as well as the other colleges.
•Have a budget that is workable‐not his fault but this gets old.
•less blatantly favor his personal friends in the college
•Keep his personal friends out of positions of power in the College.
•have more resources to carry out the plans for the future of the college. The college has not, in my opinion, succeeded in bring in sufficient funds from the community to help support the CESCOS programs.
Additional comments about Dean Perry:
•The sad thing is that he’s better than average for FAU, but really only average for other schools
•The university is fortunate to have Gary Perry as Dean of Science
•Had to make a decision lately that was linked strongly to a personal friend of his and he was very much able to separtae his professional responsibilities to the College from his personal life. KUDOS!
•pay attention to people on the ground (i.e. ordinary faculty) and less attention to self‐proclained leaders in the college
•Does not know how to fight for our fair share of monies with the upper administration. Needs to recognize that adminstration serves academia not the other way around.
•We are glad to have him.
•He is a sincere dedicated administrator, well aware of the current problems the College faces and what should be done in the future to make the College more visible to the research community. He is open to the faculty, sincere and I believe well liked.
Dean William Miller, FAU Libraries
The University would be better served if Dean Miller would:
•show some respect to his employees. He often treats us as if we are clueless. We help to run this place! It would also help if the dean informed the library staff of personnel changes as soon as they are implemented. I don’t want to know that a new librarian was hired two months later. We are a small unit and the dean should take it upon himself to communicate better with us and not just forward articles and emails to us. I thought there was to be a dean’s blog.
•Help promote salary equity among his librarians between departments.
•have more discretionary funds. Dr. Miller has an educated, futuristic vision and excellent understanding of the university’s academic needs. Combined with foresight and a good management team, he has developed an excellent strategic plan. To execute the plan in a timely manner, additional funding is needed that is flexible and not designated.
•Focus on core mission of Library ‐ serving students and faculty research needs
•The library’s hierarchal structure provides for an excess of middle managers and allows both middle managers and the associate deans to unfairly control the faculty and treat them as if they were SP employees. The middle managers, like the associate deans are controlling and disrespectful to fellow faculty. I have been denied permission from my direct supervisor to speak with (not complain to) Dr. Miller and the associate dean of my department. Dr. Miller should create an atmosphere that lessens the hierarchal control from impeding librarians to be treated as colleagues and not SP employees. Dr. Miller needs to inform the librarians about other aspects that the library supports like Klezmer concerts, Judaica Sound Archives, and the Jaffe collection. How do these and similar entities fit into the library’s mission? I am not saying this part of the library’s activities are wrong but, rather, for what reason are they here.
Additional comments about Dean Miller:
•This has been said before, but it’s worth mentioning again. I think students (one of our two primary constituents ‐ the other being the teaching/research faculty) will come to the library regardless of whether or not we host cultural events. If these events bring money and draw donors, great! But, I don’t see any of it (money) going towards library resources. Please tell me that it doesn’t cost much to host an event, and please tell me that every event draws throngs of people because this is usually not communicated with us. (Some of the Jaffe events, though, tend to appeal to a younger, hipper crowd and I think that’s a great thing for our students.)
•As an administrator, Dean Miller is scholary, thorough, contemplative, and congenial. He actively encourages participatory management, academic pursuits, and community service. Dr. Miller engages and supports his managers and staff, strives for fairness, and promotes the students, the faculty, and the university in all his endeavors. I find him an excellent administrator. Give him more discretionary funding, and he’ll expand his vision of excellence throughout the university.
•Dr. Miller needs to make himself more visible to all staff of the library. He needs to get a fund raiser with experience to bring in some money to the library. Overall, he is a very kind man and a good manager. However, the library is more like a business than a college. He should get a business consultant, not from the library world, to evaluate and give him some ideas about how to manage.
Graduate College Dean Barry Rosson
The University would be better served if Dean Rosson would:
•N/A
•Leave. He is incompetent and does not know how to be in his job. It is obvious from the amount of useless paperwork created over there that there is no vision, just bureaucracy. We have had enough of that.
•resign
•Cease focusing upon picayune matters (e.g. developing add’l bureaucratic forms, policing plans of study, etc) and focus, instead, upon larger and more significant ways to support grad programs
•RESIGN
•Keep faculty informed of policy changes
•Consult more with faculty
•be more of a visible presence, perhaps. Despite teaching in a terminal degree program I don’t really know what he or his office does other than enforce margins on the theses.
•be relieved of his duties as graduate dean.
•Hire competent staff who want to work WITH students and departments and not AGAINST them. Hire enough staff. Keep the website updated with requirements for theses and dissertations. Train staff how to work with the rest of the University family.
•Investigate the quality of supervision of faculty on graduate student work; investigate the level of graduate instruction in some departments
•continue to develop the graduate school as he has done.
•continue the great job he has already been doing.
•More understanding of the diversity of graduate programs at FAU.
•Encourage his employees to be more flexible.
•I am a very active graduate faculty member and I don’t recall ever receiving the first memo or meeting with the graduate dean. Based on that, I am going to conclude that the dean is not very visible or active.
•Graduate College doesn’t exist.
•Continue to lead graduate programs.
•Resign. Failing that, we should be able to write on the forms, not have to type them‐‐if even one or two items are written in, he sends them back and makes them be redone and re‐signed, etc. making more work for everyone.
•…although better since Alperin took over. Needs to be a better communicator with grad faculty. Too many forms still not put online as he said they would be. Personally, I think he is growing and learning more about FAU which is not a tier one like U of N was and is operated much differently. However, I appreciate his emphasis on scholarship. Too bad he had such a rocky start. He would benefit tremendously from some professional development in leadership . He frequently violates “golden rules of thumb” that most trained leaders are quite aware of. It’s problematic and he has had to learn these rules by “trial by fire” Had this not been the caes, he would be much more effective. However, I do believe he is willing to listen and take advice but it took all three years to get him to that point. Faculty are not out to get him, but rather help him. Most support him much more now than originally when he superimposed U of N’s grad policies and forms onto FAU, particularly in colleges that were already doing a fair to good job processing grad students. All in all, though, I think he is valued added and hope he continues to improve. He has much to offer us as long as he stops cramming it down our throats. Also, he has over empowered several of his staff and needs to realise that it is of great importance that student adivisors are copied when communicating with doc students. That alone would go a long way in improving his level of respect and acceptance at FAU.
•He should be fired He is incompetent
•Resign. While his temper is under control more now than last year, he is known for getting even with those who cross him. There should be a zero tolerance for his type of outbursts. He has created a nightmare of paperwork without systems to address his creations, something that is a surprise for an engineer. One would think that an engineer would know the value of insuring systems are in place to address plans rather than implementing his ideas via management by chaos. The Graduate College web site looks like Barry Rosson’s thinking‐ very cluttered, controlling and buried in unnecessary paperwork. I do not doubt that he wants to do a good job, but he is over his head.
•Ask and listen! Involve faculty in decision‐making, or at least announce new forms, procedures, important actions taken‐and copy faculty on problems with their students’ forms so they won’t be blindsided. Also very important: select and train staff to be COURTEOUS!
•1. stop being so controlling. 2. get rid of current graduate faculty status policy (something he inherited) and just automatically give all professors grad status (like top universities do).
•resign
•resign and get rid of his College
•resign his post.
•stop trying to fix things that aren’t broken. The advising procedure has become a nightmare!! It was working fine in the past.
•Leave the university.
•to step down or be fired
•Have a total shift of leadership style!! He needs to abandon completely the dedication to centralization and begin to address issues of excellence as they emerge in their DIFFERENT manifestations across diverse colleges.
•Resign or be more collegial. He needs to respect faculty.
•who is this???
•work more closely with the departments and colleges
•Replaced.
•Show up and make himself known. Where has he been hiding???
•inroduce the requirement that if a faculty did not publish even a single paper during the past year,then the faculty ought to be barred from teaching graduate course.
•no comment
•resign
•resign
•It is difficult to know what this Dean and his officers actually do
•INterfcae with those in the trenches. Who is he?
•I have never met or received communications from Dean Rosson.
Additional comments about Dean Rosson:
•N/A
•Another very poor choice.
•He has created a web of forms that actually makes the college work less efficiently and are confusing. He has lengthened the whole thesis and dissertation process for no other reason than bureaucratic ones that are convenient for him but inconvenient for everybody else. He is not an advocate for either students or faculty.
•Bright, personable and all‐around professional administrator.
•Like Dean Pendakur, Dean Rosson has been a very effective reformer and taken FAU to the next level. He is very competent and devoted to his job, with a strong vision about where the GC needs to go. My only criticism is that some members of his office, especially Connie Sokolowski are not very competent and treat faculty with relative contempt and disdain.
•a lot of busy work has come hand‐in‐hand with a formal graduate college
•I generally don’t think the academic standards are very high at FAU and don’t know if this the responsibilty of the dean of the college or the graduate/undergraduate deans. It may be the fault of the state legislature. Faculty, parents, students all bear some responsibility.
•We are lucky to have him.
•He is arrogant and has made MUCH more work for faculty with his little generic forms that then need to be filled in, whereas when we did department forms, they could be checked off, which eliminated all the filling in
•Too many rules inconsistent poor leaders flips flops too much unorganized office and staff
•He was hand‐picked by John Pritchett and, sadly, brought more of the “old boy” Auburn ways here at FAU. FAU is spending well over a million dollars a year on this unit that is not necessary. The
first budget cut the new president needs to make is the Graduate College. A Graduate School is just fine for a university this size. Too much top down management!
•Many students who are applying or nearing graduation have expressed dismay over their treatment by the staff of this office. Too often, they chide and threaten rather than suggesting an easy solution.
•Is good at responding in a timely manner.
•he is a true bureaucrat, paper pusher
•I wish Dean Rosson had had some experience with graduate schools and graduate education before he was appointed to this position. His lack of experience shows in how the grad college works.
•Unnecessary bureacracy which needs to be localized through offices of student services with a small coordinating central staff.
•Poor leader and a poor visionary.
•This man is very dangerous, unethical, and should be avoided.
•he is rude copies things from Auburn trying to impose what worked there here at FAU too much attitude and talking down to faculty. doesn’t care about faculty or students insensative
•Although this year had seen more listening to faculty perspective, we are still having to deal with the inefficiencies of his form filling regime (ironically introduced to increased efficiency.) I give him credit for beginning to understand the value (or the reality) of faculty governance. I also credit him for botching the dean search in our college a couple of years ago.
•is this nnecessary?
•The graduate college talks directly to students without input from the departments. This causes more problems than it solves.
•Never know his/her existence.
•All faculty having the status of graduate faculty shows that the university does not care about the graduate ciurses;FAU became a mediocre institution whre there are no standards.
•IT is nice to see someone who is putting some organizational systems in place.
•He’s a hack of the first order! Arrogant, imperious and incompetent!
•See above.
Undergraduate Dean Edward Pratt
The University would be better served if Dean Pratt would:
•Comments on Dean Pendakur apply here for Dean Pratt
•? Who is he?
•quit
•continue to do exactly what he is doing. He is an excellent dean.
•I would say resign, but I really can’t think of him doing anything else.
•Implement more student assessment, after Freshman year, and perhaps again during Junior year. Grade inflation and lack of assessment puts students at severe disadvantage.
•continue his strong work.
•Continues to be wonderful in his interactions with faculty and committees
•Communicate more. As I noted above, the academic standards seem to be falling. It is unclear whether this rests with the graduate and undergraduate deans or the colleges. My thought is that the UG dean could play a more vigorous role to encourage high academic standards.
•Keep doing what he is doing.
•be fired
•Teach Barry Rosson how to treat faculty with respect.
•Respect faculty more.
•not change. He’s very democratic and faculty/student friendly.
•step down too much ego makes no sense seems really out of touch with teaching, students, and faculty needs.
•Clone himself! He could give some of his colleagues on the deans’ counsel some lessons on patience, listening, and genuinely valuing governance processes, even though they are tedious.
•tell us what he’s doing
•no comment
•stood up more for faculty
•take another position
•Become proactive in raising the academic standards of the university.
Additional comments about Dean Pratt:
•Comments on Dean Pendakur apply here for Dean Pratt
•Obviously, he hasn’t made a huge attempt to involve faculty‐‐no one knows who he is.
•I didn’t realize we had a dean of undergraduate studies.
•He is the only administrative dean who seems to fully support faculty in their mission to teach. He actually attends events that he sponsors and stays throughout. He shows respect for faculty and their work and makes an effort to assist them in improving undergraduate teaching without taking over. The Center for Teaching Excellence programs (Technology Workshop and Critical Thinking workshop) have been excellent and get faculty to participate on Saturdays! He is a model administrator and deserves to be rewarded for it.
•The Dean seems to be like a prep school teacher who was tossed in the middle of an inner city school. He doesn’t know how to cope very well.
•Dr. Pratt did a masterful job in redeveloping the core curriculum. He kept faculty in the loop with timely updates and allowed us to take a leading role in developing courses for the new core.
•During my interactions I have found him professional, honest, fair, and a true asset to FAU.
•He is incompetent and comes up with silly rules like the plagerism rule which has no teeth or backbone. He is not present and is incompent
•The contrast in styles between Ed Pratt and Barry Rosson is drastic. Dean Pratt listens to faculty, does not create systems than cannot be managed, and never has lost his temper (at least that I know of).
•is friendly brings in good speakers
•Have a vision.
•eems really out of touch with teaching, students, and faculty needs. poor leadership
•I like his style. I believe he is genuinely trying to do things that will increase the caliber of our students, teachers and their education.
•In spite of being in charge of undergraduate studies, Dean Pratt is a nonentity. Maybe that’s good.
•I have not met or received communications from Dean Pratt.
Vice President Joyanne Stephens
The University would be better served if Vice President Stephens would:
•Have a presence on this campus ‐‐ which is probably impossible considering the breadth of her responsibilities.
•Show her face more.
•She is not a visible or accessible presence. There is little faculty interaction. We do not know about it If she is out promoting or raising money for our campus. Phyllis Bebko is a much stronger presence.
•Met with faculty more.
•a strong and fair administrator who works toward university goals.
•Stand up to admin and say she will only oversee one campus She is too: Too scattered and ditzy not present enough
•clone herself to set the example for other administrators. She has a wonderful manner, sense of humor, and presence. We need more administrators who work as hard as she does.
•Clone herself!
•quit her post.
•Have more vice presidents, one for each campus, it is too much for this scattered lady to handle
•another worker bee
•Vice Pres. Stephens has appointed some very questionable persons to be administrators on the regional campuses. V.P. Stephens has too big a job and needs someone to assist who can manage all the duties that she must have as V.P. for the range of institutions.
•Communicate with us.
•Not be assigned to all regional campuses. Each campus should be assigned to the highest administrator whose unit/assignment is primary on that campus.
•leave. Actually, that would make no difference, since we never see her.
•Have any presence at all on the Jupiter campus. Never met VP Stephens. Never gotten an email from VP Stephens. Never seen any evidence that VP Stephens is doing anything for us other than getting a ridiculously high salary.
•continue as VP
•I think she has been given such a huge assignment, she is unable to oversee the responsibilities
•not have seven campuses to administrate. To be fair, no one person could be expected to promote such a large region with diverse needs. However, to Dr. Stephens’ credit, she has delegated Northern campus daily operational authority to Asst. VP for Academic Affairs Jeanne Takeda. Ms Takeda serves as an excellent liaison with Dr. Stephens and the Northern campuses. Asst. VP Takeda has met regularly with faculty and staff,and as Dr Stephens liaison, Ms Takeda communicates the university’s governance decisions and oversees daily campus operations.
Additional comments about Vice President Stephens:
•We do not see this adminstrator on the Jupiter Campus, which is sliding into oblivion. There is no leadership here, no sense of community, no feeling that we have any leadership at all. It seems that the person in charge of publicity and such (“University Relations”?)is the head of this campus. Not acceptable.
•She is assigned to so many campuses‐‐its no wonder that she is not visible.
•Does a very good job in an impossible situation.
•Never present all over the place confused lacks intelligence in academia
•She earnestly tries to promote FAU over a 120+ mile region. High energy, a sense of humor, trying to do an impossible job.
•VP Stephens is spread very thin. It is unreasonable to think she could be effective on every campus. She hasn’t got a chance to do a good job anywhere because she has to be everywhere. Her choice for facility manager on the northern campuses is not a fan of faculty. So her day to day decisions overlook the FTE earners on campus.
•Poor visionary and poor leader
•Not present too scattered
•I’ve only seen her on campus once. I have never received any communication from her.
•Joyanne seems very nice but I have seen her only a few times over the last year. Her assignment is unrealistic and our campus is dying as a result.
•She seems like a nice person and a good administrator but it is not possible/logical to assign all regional campuses to one person.
•I have met her ONCE. She is never visible, never here, never involved. She may as well not exist. She is just an empty office in the AD building. The one time I met her, she was not impressive either. Ways to save FAU money: Fire Joyanne Stephens.
•Dr. Stephens is congenial, knowledgeable, and has a depth of experience with FAU and with the development of the southern campuses.
Interim Provost Diane Alperin
The University would be better served if Interim Provost Alperin would:
•N/A
•fire dean pendakur immediately
•GO do something that doesn’t involve dealing with faculty. She doesn’t know how and is not an academic. She might as well have left with Brogan.
•Respect the faculty, which she seems incapable of doing.
•Realize that the university can no longer afford keeping Dean Pendakur in his position; the admin needs to take action and replace him, immediately, before more damage is done, both within and without the college
•went back to social work
•Interface with faculty more directly.
•continue to do what she does but pay more attention to faculty grievances against Dean Pendakur of Arts & Letters.
•Continues to serve as Provost
•Continue
•fire manju.
•Give more money to the faculty instead of the administrators…
•be retained in a leadership capacity under the new administration.
•return to being a Professor of Social Work. the new president must appoint a new provost to restore academic leadership to the Provost’s Office.
•She has consistently failed to exercise appropriate oversight towards the deans.
•Resign
•not partake in the process of firing tenured faculty.
•be more assertive over dean’s tyrannic behaviors.
•There is so little communication from the top, it is hard to rate the top administrators very well. I would encourage more openness all around. I think there is a sense of distrust between faculty and the administration. Presuming both parties act in good faith, communication can help to solve this.
•Be fired, and the point is this, if you are administering over a university where faculty have had no raise in 4 years EVEN WHEN TIMES WERE GOOD and now contemplating pay cuts, then you are not doing your job and you need to be fired! How hard is this to understand? People in charge are simply mis‐managing resources. Why are almost all other schools better off than FAU?
•Not reveal personal information about faculty members to others who do not have a need to know.
•She and the rest of the administration should never have supported the engineering dean in attempting to disregard tenure‐‐it was embarrassing to put her in that position but she should have resisted. The admin lost a lot of goodwill through that action.
•She should have been a full‐time faculty member before being a provost or asst. provost, she has never followed through the ranks like all of us
•Diane should remain as Provost as long as the new president wants her in that role. If President Saunders wants to hire her own provost, Diane would be an asset as an Associate Provost.
•have some regard for faculty and democratic practice and stop being a paper‐pushing bureaucrat who rubber stamps fascist decisions by deans.
•stayed in this role!
•Resign.
•step down and be a assist. prof again instead of an adjunct
•Be more honest and open about decision making. Stop wearing her “game face” as an administrator and be her authentic self, which appears to be extremely progressive and bold. The fiasco with the re‐structuring in Engineering caused significant distrust of her, which she is going to have to work hard to shed.
•leave
•give respect to the UFF
•Replaced.
•work with faculty
•step down.
•appoint deans/accociae deans for 3 year duration only…
•be reassigned
•She being a colloborator in laying of 5 people last year, proves to be a incompetent leader and unbecoming of a vice provost
•Diane has done a commendable job in a difficult time.
•Not a forceful leader. Very much a follower.
•Being a short‐term interim is extremely difficult. The university should thank her.
•continue as Provost
•be fired
•retain the provost position permanently.
•Our university must become proactive in raising its academic standards.I waste too much time and effort trying to teach mathematics to students that are unable to pass even a single exam. Our entrance requirements are too low. Our reputation in the state system is at an all‐time low. It is necessary for the university to start giving more than lip‐service to academics.
•communicate directly with all campuses with a quarterly meeting. Most faculty meetings take place on the Boca campus, and most of our regional communications go through the Deans. Although I have heard positive comments regarding Provost Alperin and her faculty governance decisions and support, I have only heard her speak at community and northern campus meetings.
Additional comments about Interim Provost Alperin:
•N/A
•The fight over salaries proved that she simply lies and is willing to say anything to better her own and the trustees position. That is not a faculty advocate, and certainly not Provost material. She has bee miscast, badly.
•she is the nastiest hatchet woman I’ve ever seen
•MEAN!
•She has been an effective administrator in almost all of her activities. However, she, like many upper level administrators do not act quickly enough to prevent deans, such as Pendakur, from making decisions that destroy faculty morale and college programs.
•Dr. Alperin is one of this University’s strongest, most intelligent administrators. She balances student, faculty and the FAU community interests effectively and equitably.
•A number of faculty and department administrators have approached Alperin about the misdeeds of manju. Yet, she has not, to the faculty’s knowledge, reprimanded or penalized him. As the chief academic administrator, she has an obligation to address the racism, anti‐Semitism, and misogynism of manju.
•Diane Alperin is one of the university’s best assets, time and again she has served FAU well. We are fortunate to have her.
•My comments are based on her history at FAU. She has a strong reputation for fairness and upholding academic standards.
•I have had a mix of good and not so good administrative behaviors.
•She is in over her head.
•In other instance besides above, seems very ethical and competent.
•She needs to go to all colleges more and be more present. So student know her. She is a weak leader
•Diane is a good listener, organized, and an ethical leader. She does her homework and that is very much noticed and appreciated.
•She has an in‐depth knowledge of the University and the community and a reputation for listening, collaborating, and seeking the best for FAU.
•This administrators is disingenuous in her explanations. Will do and say anything to protect her administrative and her fellow administrators’ power of people. Has NO regard for individual faculty. Thinks nothing of terminating someone who has been unjustly terminated.don’t know how she sleeps at night.
•she is a strong and compassionate leader who goes the extra mile
•Allows admin in colleges to treat prof and students poorly
•She appears to be a very hard‐working person. Actually I find that in informal or scholarly settings (e.g. I have heard her make more speeches at university events this year) I am often pleasantly surprised to hear what she has to say. Sadly, this does not often parallel her role as an administrator.
•She failed miserably to uphold academic standards and maintains a scholarly atmosphere at FAU.
•I don’t know how much blame she bears for the layoff debacle in the College of Engineering and Computer Science.
•Her involvement in the layoff of five tenured faculty cannot be forgotten or forgiven.
•She is interim and has been in the job for not very long. She seems to have a good attitude and respects her faculty. Additionally, Prichett seems to still be doing this job even though he is president.
Interim President John Pritchett
The University would be better served if Interim President Pritchett would:
•fire dean pendakur immediately
•raise the moral of the professors by ordering raises that match administrators in all ways‐including parties…
•Leave.
•Fortunately, he’ll soon be replaced.
•same as above regarding Alperin
•stop kidding himself and retire
•Remain as president.
•remain Provost. He has done a good job as our chief academic officer and has shown a high regard for academic standards and for faculty in general.
•Pay more attention to his public presence ‐‐ be in direct contact with the faculty & be more sensitive to the consequences of his avoiding taking public positions on matters of faculty concern.
•Remain president, period.
•fire manju.
•retain a leadership position in the new administration.
•resign and let a strong, more fair‐minded academic take his place.
•Stay on at the University.
•Dr. Pritchett should resign from administration and thereby allow the incoming president to make her own provost appointment.
•Resign fromthe univeristy as soon as the new president asseumes duties
•Retire. He is a nice guy, but he doesn’t have much of a handle on the contemporary challenges in higher education. He did nothing to get the university ready for the coming fiscal crisis. He wants everyone to feel good about him and about FAU. That’s nice, but it doesn’t solve anything.
•Retire and make way for new leadership with more energy and willingness to think about the future…
•not fire tenured faculty.
•be more assertive in protecting faculty and standards of excellence
•Dr. Pritchett is caring, fair, continually concerned about FAU and its future, reasonable, and rational. I find him to be an outstanding member of our executive team and would have liked if he had applied to have the “interim” removed from his president title.
•Continues to serve us
•I hope in the next year or two that the dialogue between the faculty and the administration cools down. I sincerely wish that the administration would do something nice for the faculty, as in a concession, and I also hope that UFF graciously recognizes it as such. My hope is that Pritchett will help the incoming president to heal the wounds between the faculty and the administration instead of fueling the flames.
•Be fired, and the point is this, if you are administering over a university where faculty have had no raise in 4 years EVEN WHEN TIMES WERE GOOD and now contemplating pay cuts, then you are not doing your job and you need to be fired! How hard is this to understand? People in charge are simply mis‐managing resources. Why are almost all other schools better off than FAU?
•Take a stricter stance with deans.
•Stand up for faculty more.
•would be more open and transparent. Impressed with the transparency from Blosser and the BOT. New! Perhaps he had something to do with this??? He is an effective admin we are lucky to have. Where are the results of the climate survey? Was it that bad? Better to reveal than hide…the natives are not pleased that some things that reflect poorly on administration should not be covered up, but rather dealt with in a swift manner. The climate can change at FAU but BOT, New Prez, and folks like Pritchett to take the lead. This will require respect toward faculty and a genuine interest in their needs, including raises and support from administration.
•Return to faculty or retire
•Retire. He has hired too many of his pals. Cronyism has been his style since he came to FAU as illustrated by his hires and his special promotions and salary adjustments for his favorites.
•Stop protecting the Graduate College and realize the damage that is being done to the University’s image and future alumni loyalty by that office.
•retire at long last
•Retire.
•be the next fau president
•Have continued as Interim President. Continue to find the energy he seemed to have as President as he moves back into the role of Provost. Continue to trust the faculty and honor their role in the university when making decisions.
•continue to be president
•be fired
•Complete his time in DROP and retire, allowing President Saunders to hire a new provost.
•retire
•retire this year
•work with faculty
•step down.
•retire
•limit the deans’ and assocaite deans’ tenure by 3 years only;the administrative ‘blood’ should be frequently changed; salaries of the deans should not exceed the salary of the top faculty;during summer semseters deans, associate deans and charis should teach 2 courses at least not a single course as it is custoimary now
•retire
•he should resign and leave FAU
•continue as President
•Remained as president.
•Stay with us for at least 2‐3 years as Provost.
•Stay on as president!
•remain president.
•Our university must become proactive in raising its academic standards.I waste too much time and effort trying to teach mathematics to students that are unable to pass even a single exam. Our entrance requirements are too low. Our reputation in the state system is at an all‐time low. It is necessary for the university to start giving more than lip‐service to academics.
•Stay on as Provost (I think that he is!). Good!
•Promote salary equity for FAU faculty with, at the very least, the rest of the SUL.
Additional comments about Interim President Pritchett:
•Just another iteration of Brogan. He has no expertize, cannot fundraise, is not a competent academic, and has no social skills. Our President.
•Here’s a guy who went along with the abolition of tenure in engineering. Why are we even asking whether he made decisions in the “best interest” of the faculty?
•it is too late for him to change his “hands off” management style.
•I wish he were staying on as president
•We would all be better served if he would be more aware of the damage that Dean Manju Pendakur is doing to the College of Arts & Letters and the morale of the faculty there.
•Should realize and acknowledge the role of the humanities; science is not the only place in which research takes place nor is scientific research the only kind of research that there is.
•Dr. Pritchett is the best administrator I’ve known. Big asset to the university.
•Similar to Alperin, Pritchett has been told by many faculty and department administrators about manju’s racism, anti‐Semitism, and misogynism and yet, Pritchett has not fired manju. To me, the lack of action is a dereliction of his responsibilities.
•John Pritchett did an exceptional job stepping in after Mr. Brogan departed. John is an honest and engaged administrator.
•Provost Pritchett is too weak, especially when it comes to dealing with all of our enemies on the outside. That we have to fight for our dignity and the status quo in Tallahassee is a sign of poor vision and leadership. He also privileges the sciences when it comes to future goals. FAU needs more administrators at the upper end who are from the humanities. The university is losing its very soul.
•He is easily manipulated by the deans. He is easy to manipulate because he never takes the time to check on or ask for any details. He is easy to manipulate because he is not interested in anything except what can be sketched on the back of an envelope.
•Extremely poor representation of the faculty’s interests to Board of Trustees. Under Pritchett and Brogan’s leadership faculty salaries are now the worst in state of Florida among doctoral‐granting institutions.
•He is not a strong administrator, can be by being more proactive as a leader, supporting faculty excellence, recognize exceptional work, and protect university against partisan and business leaders’ abuse of power.
•He is better than Brogan.
•Lately he is now spamming people by informing us of important things like race for the cure, etc Come on, get with it.
•He and the rest of the administration should never have supported the engineering dean in attempting to disregard tenure‐‐it was embarrassing and unethical and he should have resisted. The admin lost a lot of goodwill through that action.
•I feel bad that the BOT did not put him in as Prez for two years to see what he could do. Hard to know without giving him that opportunity, but he has always seemed even handed and fair in my limited relationships with him. I’m glad he is part of the FAU family and has earned considerable respect from most faculty. It would be good if he would “clean house” so to speak in cooperation with Alperin to get rid of some of the “old heavy handed power over, top down, vindictive deans and chairs across the university”. They might as well because MJ won’t tolerate it and it still occurs and these folks do not suffer the consequences, its simple, the climate won’t improve. These are people who are overly ambitions, self‐serving, and do not keep the goals of the entire orgnaization in mind during decision‐making and continue to pit faculty against faculty or staff for their own gain. Hopefully, those days are coming to an end and I really wish Pritchett and Alperin would get these folks out of leadership positions across FAU. They cause more problems then they solve and are a drain on the climate and budget of FAU. If our culture is to change for the better, they need to be removed.
•He was better than brogan this year, has good academic understanding and things were better this year. FAU is still mediocre and little quality because of poor leaders, all admin including Assoc. Dean’s should be evaluated, like DR. Watlington. He allows Dean Bristor to not evaluate admin like Assoc. Chairs and also allows Dean Bristor to have poor chairs with bad teaching evals. like Ridener to be a chair and also get 4 overloads of online classes, doing a poor job and also allowing Dr. McLaughlin to treat faculty and students rudely and unprofessional, writing mean and nasty e‐mails. The morale is low and admin are really disrespectful to faculty. He should be fighting to get us better raises and merit pay. We will hope that Dr. Saunders will do a better job and require evals for ALL admin positions, especially all who make over 100K. it is a sin.
•I am not a faculty member in the engineering area, but from what I observed the way John Pritchett allowed that disaster to unfold was (and is) very damaging to FAU. Frank Brogan was forced to deal with this mess that was not of his making. It is time for John Pritchett to retire.
•His initial message to the University community was very positive and learning‐oriented. He made a strong and positive statement when he invited the faculty to sit on the stage at the Fall commencement.
•get more parking for faculty and students visit branch campuses more have higher standards get better admin in the COE, he allows Dr. Watlington to never be on campus or DR. McLaughlin treat faculty and students with a bad attitude.
•I have not always agreed with Pritchett’s style or stance. But this year has been an effective one, where he has shown us what we missed by not having an academic as President.
•a leader who is fair and concerned about faculty, staff, and students
•There is nothing that indicates that Interim President Pritchett has done anything in this role that significantly contributes to the development of FAU.
•It is time for a fresh start and a new administration. Retaining Dr. Prichett as provost and Dr. Moriaty as VP for Research will make it very hard for the new president to improve the moral of the faculty in the longer term. The first six months of her presidency will be crucial to her overall success, and the problems of the last year need to be left behind. Also the conflict between time and effort reporting and bonus pay needs to be settled before it is an issue.
•I think that he probably bears much of the blame for the layoff debacle in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, which severely damaged FAU.
•the faculty evaluation process at the FAU stinks; likewise the Eminent scholar is assigned 4 courses! Slavery!!!
Many of those who do nothing ar assigned only 2 courses: in FAU, what matters is not what you know, but whom you know! Favoritism reigns here!!!
•His involvement in the layoff of five tenured faculty cannot be forgotten or forgiven.
•SHAME!!
•John Pritchett should be thanked for his accomplishments on behalf of the University.
•Did okay for an interim.
•I have appreciated that President Pritchett has implemented some new policies such as the non‐discrimination policy that makes the University a better place. There were a few others as well, but I can’t remember what they were.
•He has conducted himself in very professional way this year and restored the confidence of faculty. Dr. Pritchett is a top notch leader.
•He did a good job
•Pres. Pritchett seemed more comfortable in the role of provost.
•Interim President Pritchett has cotinued to lead FAU with strong leadership. With the Board of Trustees, he has ensured that all constituents were involved in the selection process for the new President. As an Interim President, he has communicated with the faculty on numerous occasions, through campus announcements, personal emails, the website and faculty meetings. He articulates a comprehensive, collaborative plan for the university and keeps the university aware of research, new ventures, new partnerships and fiscal developments. He has competently administered a good transitional team.
Director/Principal Patricia Hodge
The University would be better served if Principal Hodge would:
•Lead.
•Be replaced
•Needs to communicate and disemminate information better
•Assume a leadership role in the daily operations of the school; make decisions after thoughtful consideration and discussion; make decisions that will have a positive effect on student achievement, rather than on what will please individual faculty members; strive to improve the school culture
•perhaps be just a director or just a principal
•Like her very much as a person, but not effective
•Henderson is lacking leadership;teachers are being allowed to simply do as they please and professional procedures and rules are not being enforced. The school is in dire need of a strong administrator who will prioritize student achievement and uphold high standards for students and faculty.
Assistant Dean Glenn Thomas
The University would be better served if Assistant Dean Thomas would:
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