2015 Administrator Survey Comments

Comments on Dean Heather Coltman, College of Arts & Letters

The university would be better served if Dean Heather Coltman would:

• Resign, be fired.  She is corrupt, only services her friends,
• The good news about Dean Coltman is that 2015-2016 is her third and final year. We have little travel money and few raises. Yet, she sends chairs forward to tell us about an evaluation plan in which few will be superior. We’re also told how terrible it is that some chairs award all superiors to their faculty good for them, how nice to have someone say something positive. In the absence of raises/travel money, how about someone who validates us as scholars/teachers?
• Resigned
• Be replaced.
• Stay as Dean!
• resigned
• Make some effort to get to know contingent faculty.
• Receive more funding from the Provost’s office to fulfill more needs in the college.
• Understand what her faculty do.
• Push against the “pillars” and “platforms.”
• Be able to make quicker decisions.  Sometimes she is ready to make decisions but has to wait for upper admin to make their decisions first. Ability to make decisions as a faster pace, therefore, upper admin needs to make speedy decisions so that the Dean can do her job.
• Resign. Heather Coltman is biased, unfair, and incompetent. She has openly stated that she does not understand research.
• resign.  Thee college needs more experienced leadership.
• Fight for more equity across colleges
• resign and go back to the music department. Dean Coltman is a joke and an embarrassment to the college and the university and she has been since assuming the interim position.
• Resign
• Continue her fair administration.
• Be fired.
• This is a corrupt dean who acts like a juvenile in a high school setting,  She has no knowledge, no vision, and has very much hurt the College with her antics and favorites. We have had problems with Deans in the past, but never clearly and openly corrupt and deceptive.  She will only do more damage.
• He is a new Dean, so there is learning on the job. Unfortunately, there is a lot of bias in the promotion and hiring processes.
• Our department is short on faculty; please give her permission to allow us to open searches.
• Our adjuncts are grossly under paid; please giver her permission and money to raise their salaries.
• Continue serving as dean of the college for the indefinite future.
• Advocate for the arts, humanities, & social sciences more forcefully, though that might be hopeless here.
• Visit every department (once) every semester.
• Communicate more clearly and more transparently.
• Be fired.  She is a corrupt administrator who is running the college on alliances rather than academic principles and credentials.  She has no vision except her own interests and her flirtatious relationship with the Provost, who doesn’t recognize the damage she has done and continues to do.
• hire more effective associate deans
• To continue in her present position
• Resign and a national search be conducted to hire a competent dean.

Additional comments about Dean Heather Coltman:

• Incredibly duplicitous.  Flirtatious with upper administration and has a few chairs (one in particular) who she appoints to everything and hands money to.  Much corruption, much anti-reearch and anti-intelectual operating. We are in a seriously bad way with leadership.
• I have not figured out what the Dean or associate dean Johnson bring to the college–what is the value added to teaching and research by their lofty salaries and titles. We might be better off simply to have a person in the provost’s office send our assignment to us. Those two add nothing to the college.
• nasty
• Our college Dean is always working to promote our college internally and externally.
• Dean Coltman is a very good dean. She is transparent, available to faculty, and engaged. She’s a good advocate for the College.
• A national or international search should be conducted for a Dean of the college.  We need real change from insightful individuals that are not influenced by the old cronies in this college.
• She is constantly promoting our college and faculty. Always finding ways to aid our students financially as well as our faculty.
• Overall, she is great at promoting the college and faculty. It is clear that her objective is for the college to shine within the internal and external community.
• Consistently, she is unprepared at meetings. She speaks without having a real purpose for saying what she is saying. She mostly smiles and acts as a cheerleader but doesn’t have any real comments or facts.
• Surprisingly faculty are unable to meet with her to address problems in the college.
• It’s is time for a new dean in the arts and letters college, someone who has vision and drive to advance the college’s mission
• In addition to her work as an administrator, her creative/scholarly work sets a high bar for the rest of the college.
• Very supportive of faculty research.
• It is hard to know why we have had such a hard problem getting an honest and decent, let alone visionary, dean.  It could be the attitude of the University towards Arts and Letters–they simply don’t care and we have been the victims of those individuals named Deans who have taken advantage of it.  In this case, the Provost apparently likes her.  One can’t know why.  He is a scientist and knows very little about the natural sciences and humanities.  Neither does she.  But her vindictive and self-interested behavior has been very damaging to the College, and will only gets worse as no one confronts it. We are stuck once again with a Corrupt Dean, and a her hand-picker corrupt Chairs who are simply her petty bureaucrats– what do we do about it?
• n/a
• Dean Coltman is the best dean our college has had in its history.  She is fair, collegial, and a tireless promoter of Arts and Letters.  Sometimes, as in Dean Coltman’s case,it is better to have a dean with a long history at FAU.  Dean Coltman understands the university well, has long experience as a department chair working collegially with other college department chairs, and serves as dean with an interest in the general well-being of the college as a whole.  The high level of rancor that has characterized the college in years past has largely disappeared.
• She has a few sycophant chairs who do her work with her and a couple of very inexperienced and not all that bright associate deans who she uses to communicate her wishes (which takes her out of the possible accusatory ring)– the corruption is so obvious that the faculty has stopped communicating with each other and there is no academic atmosphere at all.  As the upper administration also knows this and is doing nothing about it, it should how much the University cares about the liberal arts.
• there is probably an imbalance in attention and resources to the performing arts. These are important but the academic life of the college is not showcased as much as the arts
• Doing well.   Really cares about faculty.
• Finally a strong, supportive administrator for our College and visionary
• Favoritism, divide and rule are the ways in which the College Dean functions. Tenure standards have gone down in the last four years. Resource allocation within the college is not based on rational criteria such as productivity but purely on which department she likes.

Comments on Dean Daniel Gropper, College of Business

The university would be better served if Dean Daniel Gropper would:

• Left the University. He makes big bucks, & raises little to no money. All hat, no cattle!
• not show favoritism, open his eyes and have values to promote a better culture.
• Resign
• Use more faculty governance process
• Spend more time getting to know and speak directly to his faculty.  He spends too much time with other deans and directors. His focus on making money for the college seems to remain his first priority.
• Decentralize.  Give more discretion to department chairs and faculty instead of standardizing across
• departments and/or making decisions in the Dean’s Office.
• have a strategic plan and better vision of a bigger picture for the college. Not so concentrated on money raising activities at an expense of academic process and quality.
• Be more transparent.  Update outdated policies
• More effectively explain to other Colleges how they might duplicate or partner with some of the fee-based offerings the COB has launched.

Additional comments about Dean Daniel Gropper:

• Hired under old regime. Prez should look for someone new & honorable…..
• Dean Gropper needs to be more effective at obtaining the buy-in of entrenched faculty who’re opposed to Clinical Professorships.  Their blindness is detrimental to fostering productive relationships with viable external resources with experience from whom those faculty could learn a tremendous amount.

Comments on Dean Rosalyn Carter, College for Design and Social Inquiry

The university would be better served if Dean Rosalyn Carter would:

• finally retire.
• Retire.
• Retired from her position. It is not healthy to have the same Dean during 20 years (independently of the Dean’s performance)
• Not step down after this year

Additional comments about Dean Rosalyn Carter:

• None

Comments on Valerie Bristor, College of Education

The university would be better served if Dean Valerie Bristor would:

• Ensure due process on all academic matters.
• Offer a competitive salary
• Step down as dean and allow someone with real leadership ability to lead us.
• No backbone or spine, allows anything goes in the COE
• Bristor allows her chairs and admin/assoc deans to treat students and faculty poorly, she allows her chairs to be bullies and are not advocates for students and faculty in the COE
• Bristor needs to retire, she is too old and out of touch with education and allows too much corrupt business go on here with grants and old faculty not pulling their weight
• 1. Articulate clearly the role of education in a democratic society. 2. Build a teaching and learning faculty that was modeled on the tenets of a professional learning community. 3. Established a graduate faculty that was proficient in statistical analyses. 4. Restructured existing departments to tap into interdisciplinary knowledge teams. 5,6,7…
• look deeper into departments so she knows what really goes on.
• discipline a couple of unethical chairs who only hire their own friends as full time and part time faculty. Recently, a chair intimidated a whole department by inviting those unqualified Equity Office director, campus police director and EEO director. Clearly the department administrators and a couple of tenured faculty violated scholarship and hired their own friends. These people acted like barking dogs to silent whistle blowers who appeared to be our doctoral students!!! Very strange…
• not allow personal friendships to influence her decision making.  She favors and excuses one chair for problem behavior because she is friends with that chair. She outright lied when reporting results of that chair’s 360 evaluation to the faculty.
• Obtain additional resources for the college
• When we have major disagreements such as the case of the Dr Russo situation, take a stronger role and seek to bring the situation or allow the complaints to be heard by those empowered to do something about it.
• Quit planning for her next career move to become associate provost when Diane Alperin retires
• Hire a teams of SMART, scholarly LEADERS to serve as Associate Deans and Department Chairs.
• Serve as Senior Associate Dean, rather than as Dean.
• Become a scholar and learn something about her field.
• Stop using her associate dean to do the unpleasant tasks she would rather not do.
• Create HELL over the completely botched construction effort that interrupted the faculty this year.
• Commission and publish an OSHA reading of air quality on all floors of the ED building.
• listen to faculty. Dean surrounds herself with her handpicked chairs, listening only to them & refusing to lower herself to communicate with mere faculty.
• This is one of the best deans!
• She should fire a couple of unqualified/unethical chairs, though.
• These chairs are such a disgrace.
• Continue in her present position.
• Equalize pay disparities
• Get rid of inept chairs and/or hold chairs accountable for treating employees in a very disrespectful manner. She treats everyone respectfully, so why does she allow a couple of the chairs to get away with antagonistic behavior, at best, abusive treatment of faculty and staff?

Additional comments about Dean Valerie Bristor:

• Increase adjunct faculty pay
• She is extremely supportive and appreciates the creativity of faculty.
• Treat all equally
• Get raises each year for faculty
• Have a backbone
• Stop the bully mentality from chairs and admin toward faculty and students
• Show real leadership
• The COE does not fly its flag very high, mediocrity is the norm in the COE. The students and faculty deserve a better leader and leaders who care and who are academics and professional
• Nepotism is a real problem in the COE
• Evaluate all positions in the COE each year, no matter what. There is no evaluation system on a regular basis for chairs and admin given by the COE or University, faculty are evaluated every which way, but chairs and COE admin are not evaluated hardly at all.
• The Exceed Grant is forced upon faculty to change an entire dept. yet there was never any buy-in or inclusion of all it is poorly administered and all about only Marzano, money given by the State of FL to go to the LSI group who seemed to have written the grant, treating faculty like children as if we do not have doctorates or any education at all, the Dean has allowed LSI and the DTL chair to demoralize a faculty and dept. Very disturbing things going on in the COE. The COE is taking blood money from grants to  promote ineffective instruction and programs, all a vicious cycle of evil money.
• Dean Bristor needs to put every chair up for a vote of confidence from her dept. faculties. The leadership in this college is horrendous, bullies treating faculty and students very poorly. The COE deserves better, put everyone up for a vote of confidence, all chairs and admin in the COE!
• Bristor should make Nancy Romance also have to teach three classes a semester and attend all dept. and college meetings and also have to serve on committees, it looks bad that Romance never has to do what all other faculty in the COE have to do, Romance has been abusing her full professor status in the COE for years and it is overlooked by admin. in this college and university.
• A good person. But should be encouraged to be a strong dean who can stand up to unethical chairs or can remove them. All chairs serve as the pleasure of the dean. Why keep those unethical/unqualified/incompetent ones?
• Faculty morale in the COE is at the lowest point in 2 decades, yet our dean seems unaware or unconcerned about it.
• Dr Bristol does help promote a very collegial atmosphere
• All smile and no action
• I am tired of having a dean whose primary characteristic is that she is “nice” (i.e. conflict averse). She has NO clear vision for the college and has an impotent team of associate deans and -for the most part – executive committee that spends its meeting time giggling and telling jokes. The executive meeting has no agenda that is distributed ahead of time, though this is standard practice in faculty committees. The recent grant on which she is co-PI on is an embarrassment and a huge concern, especially with reference to the lack of transparency on how this will affect so many faculty (and, ultimately, students). No faculty in the T&L department were consulted and, clearly, NO research/ scholarship was done around the proposal. Despite the presence of significant thinkers in the college, she seemed to have gone to other colleges to design the grant (a good idea at one level)while selling out her own faculty who are now forced to teach to an evaluation system (Marzano) that is philosophically at odds with many faculty views. Her deference to one particular department chair, who abuses her power and has decimated morale in her department is a travesty. That she stands by and excuses this abuse is troubling. That she sugar-coated negative feedback on the chair’s 360 evaluation is also a concern. That the dean’s achievement of the year happens to be the ice cream social for the 50th anniversary is a key indicator of the state of affairs in the college that has been running itself despite her. There is now much credit being taken for the success with the CAEP accreditation… but this dean had NOTHING to do with this effort. It materialized largely absent any semblance of  leadership from her.
• Highly effective, competent,caring and fair administrator.
• Dean Bristor is a pretty good dean except for comments stated previously.  Why would she allow poor chairs to drag her down too?  Replace bad chairs with people who have integrity and demonstrate an ethic of care.

Comments on Dean Mohammad Ilyas, College of Engineering

The university would be better served if Dean Mohammad Ilyas would:

• HE SHOULD BE RELEAVED FROM HIS JOB IMMEDIATELY.
• In the interest of the college, Dean Ilyas should step down immediately. He has made no contribution to the academic advancement of the college during the last more than 14 years. He has promoted and favored everyone practicing his religious faith at the level of Associate Deans, Dept. Chairs and select faculty in all the departments within the college. He does not care and value scholarship and intellectual integrity among the faculty. The University needs to wake up and replace the entire college administration with people having superb academic record and scholarly accomplishments. Dean Ilyas preaches transparency in the college governance but promotes only favoritism and parochialism. He built a religion-based administration and college over the years and has on-going favoritisms with certain select faculty, staff and students.  The college atmosphere is demoralized with fear and mistrust.
• Remove the Associate Deans: The are nice individuals but we need to go forward, and the Director of Communications & Web Design.  Improve tenure and promotion standards.
• Resign
• Continue to serve.
• Be fired
• Resign
• Promote research more heavily. Facilitate research connections with outside institutions and funding agencies.
• pay equal attention to all faculty
• Problems:
  • He and his upper team are NOT trustworthy/honest. This is clearly evident on DAILY basis!
  • He must avoid discriminating against people that do NOT share his religion.
  • He must stop the clear preference — clear affirmative action — towards Faculty that share his religion (evident in hiring of college leadership positions; hires of new faculty; granting distinguished professorships); etc.), staff and students (consistently trying to bring new students from countries that share his religion; ethnic preference in granting Dean’s TAs).
  • He MUST stop the daily micromanagement (including “spying” on who said what on what in faculty meetings, and trying to figure out the actual names in voting at faculty meetings and so called his  “anonymous” surveys.

Additional comments about Dean Mohammad Ilyas :

• DID NOT BRING ANY MONEYS TO TEH COLLEGE; INEFFECTUAL IN PROMOTING EXCELLENCE; COLLEGE RANKING SUCKS. STRONGLY PROMOTES MEDIOCRACY.
• It is time for an immediate change in the entire college leadership positions.
• He is good for an internal person
• Dictator!
• Terrible leader. Faculty are afraid to say anything, he always finds the way to reitaliate.
• Luck of leadership, secretive, manipulative.
• I always find him hard working and optimistic
• The pay rate of faculty varies widely from department to department and from faculty member to faculty member and does not seem to be merit based in any way. It also seems that the only way to obtain a raise of any consequence is to apply for faculty positions at other universities. Internally, there seems to be a glass ceiling, the longer you stay, the further behind you fall…
• Dr. Ilyas has slowed down a bit compared to the period in which he was an Interim Dean.
• nice but not a leader
• Now (yesterday…) is the time for a new dean

Comments on Dean Jeffrey Butler, Honors College

The university would be better served if Dean Jeffrey Butler would:

• abandon the pretense of being interested in the Honors College and become a full-time educational consultant.
• Leave. Really. Unfortunately, no other place would have him.
• Appoint women in positions of leadership– he has never had a female chair or assistant dean– so that we have leadership that is diverse.

Additional comments about Dean Jeffrey Butler:

• he’s a survivor.
• For years, his only objective has long been to hold on to his job. He has succeeded in this and only this;the college, in the meantime, has become a laughing stock both within and outside fau.
• Dean Buller’s office is drastically under staffed. This would result in a completely dysfunctional College if it wasn’t for the incredible efforts and dedication of the Dean’s assistant Sandy Ogden.

Comments on Dean William Miller, University Library

The university would be better served if Dean William Miller would:

• be replaced – which is happening since we have an interim dean
• Well, Dr. Miller has retired and that is for the best for all of FAU. But who knows what the future will be for the libraries. This place needs a good financial audit!
• The Interim Dean Pellen is vindictive and extremely punitive. She acts with impunity.

Additional comments about Dean William Miller:

• a new dean of the libraries will be chosen soon.

Comments on Dean Marlaine Smith, College of Nursing

The university would be better served if Dean Marlaine Smith would:

• Strengthen our interdisciplinary collaborations
• Be more communicative
• Increase availability to faculty and become more aware of the needs of all faculty, and not favor those who complain the loudest.
• n/a
• More firmly and strenuously promote the College.
• Promote realistic teaching loads to foster productive research and publications. Most faculty must take on summer courses to earn the money necessary to live in this geography – especially Boca. Merit money is greatly appreciated but does not compensate for lack of salary increases. Salaries are already low compared to other Florida schools; pension is a joke with a university contribution of only 5.14% – adding additional money to support a realistic pension plan becomes an added expense.

Additional comments about Dean Marlaine Smith :

• Marlaine Smith is an outstanding administrator.
• She is an excellent, caring scholar.
• Our Dean lives Caring as Nursing and her commitment to this philosophy filters down through the faculty to the student.  She is always available to listen, guide, and mentor, which creates a positive, supportive environment in which to work.
• One of the best Deans I’ve ever worked with.
• Ensure the Associate Dean of Academic Programs for the college is more transparent with her decisions and support of faculty needs.
• Align goals of the college with the strategic plan of the university – especially to serve the population needs of this geography.

Comments on Interim Dean Russell Ivy, College of Science

The university would be better served if Interim Dean Russell Ivy would:

• Learn to communicate with faculty. He is hardly around.
• Continue as Dean!
• Our dean is an acting dean and so is a bit limited in what he can do.
• Stand up to the provost more often. (But not easy in an interim position.)
• He just stepped down.
• Be permanent.
• Pay more attention to inadequate salaries of many faculty.
• Take more leadership and personal involvement in the college programs.
• The Dean has not worked for the college for some time now.  Who ever heard of a part-time interim Dean of the College of Science?  Who can take this seriously?
• Stay on as College of Science Dean
• Leave
• Solicit and listen to faculty needs before making personnel and space decisions.

Additional comments about Dean Interim Dean Russell Ivy:

• Mediocre Dean. Poor choice. Could have done better.
• Russ Ivy is a very competent administrator who is making the best of a horribly supported position as interim dean. He’s a respected scholar and an esteemed colleague.
• He was better than his predecessor, but like him, was all too willing to play games with other peoples’ lives and careers.  The Current Senior Associate Dean for the College of Science should be dismissed with prejudice and prosecuted!
• Abolish the position of Dean in the College of Science if the Provost is going to insist on running the college from his office.  Invest the salaries back into the college where they are needed.

Comments on Associate Provost ABBATE

The university would be better served if Associate Provost ABBATE would:

• resign and the position were abolished. I’ve been in Davie for a long time and I’ve never seen Abbate. I notice he finds time for a weekly column in the Sun-Sentinel.
• Would step down and rejoin his Faculty Unit in ARCH.
• care about  students, faculty and employees  needs instead to promote himself. It is all about you!
• I have received perhaps three emails that I can remember from Abbate, so I really can’t speak to his effectiveness, but I do find that silence puzzling.
• This guy cares not for other academic units. He cares only about his own (ARCH) and cutting deals with administrators to keep his butt safe. He messed up and threw academic units located in the Askew Tower under the bus in 2013. Now he’s trying hard to cut more deals that benefit ARCH with the city, only to slightly back-track and save face. Pres. Kelly should’ve removed this charlatan and hired a more competent individual.
• Resign

Comments on Associate Provost Eliah Watlington, Northern Campuses

The university would be better served if Associate Provost WATLINGTON would:

• Resign!
• FAU and the faculty and students deserve better than Eliah j Watlington, he is never present or around and lacks the credentials or academic background to serve the people.
• retire as she is never on campus anyway or present in the colleges and university up north. Where is she? How come she gets to work from home almost everyday?
• One wonders how these people became leaders… To be an associate provost or dean or associate dean, one has to be a tenured professor?
• be more visible.  It is impossible to know what she does as we rarely see her.
• Just keep doing what she is doing.
• No concerns
• Have more power because she is one of the few higher level admins who doesn’t abuse power

Additional comments about Associate Provost WATLINGTON:

• Haughty and fake insincere who lacks the academic credentials to serve or be an effective admin.
• She is never present
• She has no follow through on anything
• A bad rep for the university and insult to the community she is supposed to serve
• Why does FAU allow to continue to have such poor administration? People who have never even been a professor before?
• She lies
• She is not honest
• She should be fired or let go, FAU faculty, students, and the community deserve better than this low qualified admin.
• She is so fake and insincere
• She has them all snowed
• No one trusts him
• Is she ever at the Jupiter Campus?
• What are his office hours?
• The faculty on the northern campuses should have a vote of confidence for Dr. Watlington, we deserve better than his mediorcrity.
• Be visible more in the Jupiter Campus community, she is never around or present, no one sees her or knows what she does.
• She seems to pass the buck a lot and presents a bad image for a leader at the Jupiter Campus for faculty, students, and the community.
• Is there “shared governance” at FAU?
• All Presidents brought their own people from their own states…
• Why waste money to do any position advertisements?
• The Jupiter campus looks better than it has in years–Dr. Watlington makes an effort to improve the physical appearance of the campus.
• A solid advocate for  our region.
• Great at obtaining the resources we need to do our job
• People always complain they don’t know who she is or what she does.  This is likely because she  leads from behind and gives the spotlight to the folks who have earned it (unlike other admins at FAU, the vast majority, who take the bulk of credit for others ideas or work) She has a strong moral compass, cares about students and faculty, respectful to all, and navigates the politics like a pro.  Upper admins could learn a lot from EW!
• our campus remains disconnected from the main
• While Provost Watlington appears to be a great ambassador for FAU, and represents a very positive personal force, her office appears to be staffed by personnel who are difficult to communicative with, and in some cases – completely untrained for the role they are expected to serve.

Comments on Graduate College Dean Deborah Floyd

The university would be better served if Dean FLOYD would:

• Who is she, beside another overpaid bureaucrat?  What is the Graduate College anyway?  What has it done that serves any purpose?
• quit on the spot.
• raise GTA stipends, especially in Arts and Letters– our stipends are the lowest in the SUS and our enrollments are falling as a result– we’re therefore losing very, very valuable FTE. If stipends are raised, the increase in FTE will offset increased expense.
• Stop the hemorrhaging of staff from her office.
• Having had no contact with her, I can’t make an assessment at this time.
• Disappear altogether. Who is she?  All I see are more meaningless forms and badly run programs.  Has she ever asked the faculty ANYTHING about graduate programs?  Has she even ever visited a department that has an MA program?
• She is invisible.
• Consult faculty governance.
• Be fired.   He is just an incompetent paper pusher and a useless petty bureaucrat
• consult faculty before making significant changes to plan of study
• be more visible
• Improve the process to more timely handle admission information for phd students so that the colleges can make timely decisions and good students are not lost.
• Decentralize.  Delegate more decisions to the college level or departments and faculty within the colleges.
• The office was costly and bureaucratic under the Lat Dean. Hope this Dean has made the office more efficient.
• relax the requirements and responsibilities for graduate assistants to be involved in research
• Get off your high horse!
• She has too much ego!
• She is not nice to all faculty, we see through her
• be nicer to grad. students, stop flip flopping
• needs to retire
• too old and out of touch with faculty and students of today
• The former interim President with a bachelor’s degree hand picked her!
• It was a violation of university policies. The university would be better served if Floyd steps down immediately and if she stops fighting with faculty and students!!!
• Go back to community college
• -Step down.
  – Serve only following a formal search. That she accepted her appointment without any nomination process and without a search is a clear indicator of her regard for faculty governance.
  – Stop using the Provost’s office as an “excuse” for the edicts that she wants implemented. e.g.: the requirement that external committee members on doctoral dissertations need to be approved as affiliate faculty (contrary to what is in the graduate governance document.)
  – Stop trying to bully members of her own college.
  – Act with integrity when it comes to proposals that she feels are in competition with her own pet projects.
  – Stop abusing her power.
  – Recognize that the massive turnover in personnel in the Graduate College might have something to do with how it feels to work with her.
• Continue in her present position.
• Not have taken interim off her title so quickly AND consulted faculty about the decision first.
• Dean Floyd should be replaced with people who have demonstrated research accomplishments.
• Communicate with the faculty more
• True leader!
• We knew who this person was.
• Great administrator and colleague
• Dean Floyd has limited visibility among faculty within our college – not necessarily administrators.
• reduce burocrazy by not asking for constant updates to the students’ Plans Of Study
• Be more visible.
• This person is new and hasn’t done much yet.  She hasn’t distinguished herself in any way.
• If we even know she exists.  Maybe she consults someone somewhere.  Most of us do not know anything about it.  By the time information reach us through chairs and graduate program directors, it might be distorted.
• If the Graduate Dean would be more visible!
• Go back to a community college where she belongs
• … be visible.

Additional comments about Dean FLOYD: 

• High-handed. We have faculty governance for a reason–to head off the worst elements of the dumb ideas people like Floyd come up with. But she goes forward with ideas about having faculty sign off re student plagiarism=-promulgates the rule and then waits for us to respond.
• While it’s too soon to really be able to know whether Dean Floyd is effective in her position, I do know that she can be difficult to work with and for, and she seems to forget that faculty would like a say in decisions that directly effect their students.
• Out graduate programs are a joke,and she seems to be along for the ride. I don’t even know what she looks like.
• She is utterly invisible.
• Just the kind of administrator FAU appoints.
• I don’t know how often she consults with faculty
• Too much ego.
• too much bad body language send messages of not liking many people just by her body language
• She is rude and unprofessional
• Only cares about moving up and a big salary
• Fake and insincere
• I don’t like how she treats the faculty
• She is dishonest to students and flip flops on a lot
• She is better than the last guy, but still has way too much ego and on a huge power trip
• Put her up for a vote of confidence by the faculty at FAU.
• Floyd as a strange bird, she won’t look you in the eye and seems to ignore or avoid certain people, she treats some people better than others and has an odd way about herself.
• Floyd seems to be riding the wave too high, she likes to toot her own horn a lot and seems to have way too much ego in her ivory tower
• Not really aware of anything she has/hasn’t done.
• Many colleagues and students believe she is a racist. How can such a person be a dean?
• The graduate office seems to run so much better now than under Dr. Rossen! The office staff is much more student-friendly’ some of the ridiculous paperwork has been streamlined.
• Resign
• – I cannot think of anything that has happened since she took over in this position that has moved us forward as a college or university. (The provost talks about the partnership with Palm Beach State with the Engineering project, but this will never happen with education as she will only favor educational leadership and throw roadblocks in the way of any other department making any progress in this regard.)
• Floid is unethical, lacks integrity, overly ambitious, coercive and manipulative.  Thinks she is fooling others…not so.
• I have no idea who Dean Floyd is. That cannot be good for her or the university.
• Decision by fiat is the modus operandi.

Comments on Undergraduate Studies Dean Edward Pratt

The university would be better served if Dean PRATT would:

• useless syncophant
• Ed is a nice guy. He’s stuck with the sad task of changing rules so that FAU’s poor students will graduate.
• resigned
• Provided stronger academic leadership.
• Keep doing what you are doing!
• Continues his brand of administration.
• something.  just a petty bureaucrat who likes forms and is desperate to find a way to please the President, which is impossible because no one knows what he actually believes.
• leave.  he is pointless and a waste of the university’s money
• Abolish this position. From where I st, this position causes confusion but does not add value or advance our mission.
• Nothing–he is excellent
• Resign!
• In this position way to long and does nothing, and he lacks the academic credentials
• Who can respect him?
• he needs to retire or resign
• Quit double standard
• Think through some of the proposals/policies that he brings forward. Though well-intended, they tend to portend some alarming consequences.
• True leader!
• asked more of the libraries
• Follow through with decision on a timely basis
• Dean Pratt has limited visibility among faculty within our college – not necessarily administrators.
• I dont know what does he do for FAU. Uses lot of empty words.
• Continue as Dean.
• Be fired.
• resign
• So far all ideas proposed by dean Pratt were not about strengthening academic programs, but for faculty to justify their existence and do more paperwork.
• Do some work.. Who is this guy?

Additional comments about Dean PRATT: 

• Ed is a smart, well educated person. Don’t you wonder whether he ever asks himself–why am I in the position of changing rules to rescue this place? My guess is, he has been here so long he can’t move elsewhere. and gosh, does he want to return to teaching the students he has been admitting?
• a fool
• Excellent work!
• He’s invisible.
• He never seems to have much idea about what’s going on.   He doesn’t seem to have much of a grasp on things.
• Hard worker, but difficult to deal with. Loves to have everything his way!!!!!
• Who can respect him?
• Mediocrity rules with this guy, very ineffective, FAU students and faculty deserve better
• Be more present
• Send out emails like the provost to keep us informed, very out of touch with day to day teaching/classes, etc.
• another do nothing admin at FAU
• Seems to be lacking in academic and intellectual credentials, how did he get this position? How long will he stay in it? How much longer are faculty and students going to have to put up with his lack of leadership?
• I am fully cognizant of the difficulties faced by Dean Pratt and FAU in general in the face of the metrics by which FAU is judged. However, there were some proposals that seemed to be ill-advised as we moved to be responsive to these pressures. I believe Dean Pratt is sincere in his efforts to work with and for students and faculty.
• Fire him
• He is an unpleasant person who is way out of his league. His is one of the worst run offices on campus.
• He’s poorly informed, biased and not very effective.  He also believes himself and his cadre of enablers to be superior to all Faculty, especially non-tenure track Faculty.
• Replace him!

Comments on Provost Gary Perry

The university would be better served if Provost GARY PERRY would: 

• Quit and took Kelly with him., Perry sends lots of upbeat emails. He was in charge when FAU missed the change in state funding–and now the catchup is underway. Here’s the part he fails to tell us–that given the demographics of the top three schools, FAU will not “catch up” in the next five or even ten years. We’ll always be scrambling for a “money” spot–between 4-8, Remember-the other schools are doing what FAU is doing
• retired
• Provost Perry does not seek out new knowledge but thinks he knows answers. We would be better off if he were to be more open minded.
• Do more to support faculty research — our P & T expectations are on par with top ranked research universities, but support for travel and archival research is minimal at best. Also, more needs to be done to fill lines of faculty who have left for jobs at research universities where they have more support for research– the trend is alarming, to say the least.
• Provide stronger academic leadership. His position, after all, is provost and chief academic officer.
• If he would make quicker decisions.
• Needs to make speedy decisions.
• Keep doing what you are doing!
• resign immediately
• Give a raise to his faculty instead of sending emails to congratulate us on our hard work.
• Give more money for research opportunities instead of simply claiming we should be more active.
• continue.
• pay some attention to something that isn’t neuroscience
• People seem to like him but he clearly does not represent the faculty, or even talk to them   What were these departmental meetings about? Look at what we wound up with as a new Contract. That is our fault too.  I would never vote for a contract that does not contain a raise.  But certainly he and the President, after that wasted time in departments, didn’t advocate for one and don’t care about losing faculty or maintaining an intellectual environment.  Looks at the Deans he supports.
• stop hating faculty. He is the worst provost in the history of this university. He is not the Chief ACADEMIC Officer, he is the Chief ADMINISTRATIVE Officer. He has turned the University Faculty Senate into a rubber stamp. He genuinely hates faculty.
• n/a
• Our department is short on faculty; please give permission to allow us to open searches.
• Our adjuncts are grossly under paid; please give permission and money to raise their salaries.
• Recognize the value & importance of disciplines other than his own.
• Make decisions, particularly about funding, more quickly and decisively.
• Seemingly a nice guy which makes his actions even more secretive and selective.   Is against the faculty and not interested in arts and letters at all, allowing a corrupt dean to run a college he has no knowledge or care about; he does not know what the role of a Provost is supposed to be.
• incorporate more of the suggestions of faculty from his meetings with them into the strategic plan of the university
• Once Gary Perry announced that there would be big changes in spring scheduling, he should have gone on to explain those changes in detail.  The announcement without additional information has caused considerable anxiety among faculty.
• Conduct a national search. FAU needs some one from the outside to shake things up and enhance quality in all the academic colleges both–in terms of hiring, retention, tenure and promotion.
• Resign
• Improve treatment of non-tenured faculty.
• 1. Eliminate some of the procedures put in place by the former administrator.
• be stricter to enforce admin evaluations for all admin at every level in every college, faculty should be able to evaluate all admin like they do to the faculty.
• Allows too much mediocrity in leadership in many colleges.
• Allows the COE to have a dean who has not backbone or spine to overlook her chairs and admin in the COE to be bullies and treat students and faculty very poorly.
• Perry needs to put every dean and chair/admin up for a vote of confidence in each college.
• seems to do an OK job, writes well and keeps faculty informed, just is a little condescending sometimes.
• Appreciate the interdisciplinary meanings of the role of science in all fields of study, from the humanities to the roles in society played by urban design, education, and social work. Quality of life is more than biotechnology
• He made Floyd position a permanent position based on what?
• Gave greater recognition to service activities on the part of faculty.  I think we must be careful that simply tallying up publications does not carry too  great an importance.  Regional service activities are at this time unvalued
• Resign
• Consults faculty on appointments
• – Remember that all the world is NOT the college of Science. While I appreciate that Science is his frame of reference, not everything that is done in science is applicable to other disciplines. This applies mostly to P&T concerns, but also in terms of the raising of admission standards and the unique identity of who an FAU student is.
  -Really begin to understand what it means to serve a “diverse” group of students. We at the college of Ed know something about this.
  – Continue to LISTEN to the faculty and work WITH them.
  – Share the university-level data gathered and analyzed by his office more freely.
  -Advocate for equitable faculty salaries.
• Continue in his present position.
• Remember his faculty roots!  Why go along with bad ideas?  He was a lot better before he became just another “yes man” to the president.
• NO IDEAS OF PROMOTING EXCLLENCE; FAU IS STUCK–UNRANKED…
• Provost Perry does not really promote scholarly activities.
• have external search for any administration positions.
• The provost staff should not have an attitude.  They are serving the university.  Respect the existing faculty that working hard to improve FAU reputation, and award the ones that working for the departments and colleges success.  Assistant Professor should not participate it college research committees.
• Make a change at dean of engineering, support space allocations, and fund unfilled positions, and help create new programs that are long needed.
• Great Provost!
• resign
• Resign
• Was more decisive.
• Avoid micro managing the colleges and work to provide funding for summer sessions.
• Provost Perry may understand the needs of the administration but spends limited time serving the needs of faculty.
• Faculty in our college must take on summer courses to supplement low faculty salaries – teaching a total of 6 to 7 courses a year. This is an unrealistic load if quality fundable research is the goal. Faculty also take on summer teaching loads to supplement the incredibly poor pension plan offered by the state system here in Florida. Heavy teaching loads, low salaries and poor pension is a recipe for FAU to turn into a tier 3 university. Does the State of Florida really need another tier 3 university? No! Provost Perry should spend more time with faulty to truly understand the road blocks they encounter to productive research.
• Very average Provost. After the last few Provosts Dr. Perry is singularly unsuited to be the Provost. It is time he is replaced. He never has made any decision in his life. His primary goal has been to try to keep everybody happy.
• Win a Nobel prize. (Just kidding)
• He looks much better when compared to his predecessor (who was strikingly incompetent), but it is this writer’s opinion most Senior Administrators at FAU save President Kelly should be dismissed, since they’re directly responsible for the significant appropriations cuts we’ve had in two of the last three years and are also directly to blame for the ludicrous increases in numbers of unqualified students admitted into the University.
• Make more timely decisions.
• Do not hold paperwork in his office for months at a time.
• Leave. He has turned the provost office into a joke.  There are no academic standards at FAU anymore.  Give me a break.. No Fs for students?

Additional comments about Provost GARY PERRY: 

• obeys Diane
• The Provost needs to make decisions at a faster rate.
• I do believe he has the best interests of the university at heart.
• The good news is that he seems to be a good administrator. The bad news is that he seems to be a good administrator. He does what the president wants, and that does not include doing anything about the steadily increasing erosion of faculty conditions.  This is a problem that will take a decade to recover from.
• Gary Perry is well grounded and has an excellent vision of the university and its faculty. He is dedicated and has proven himself time and time again to keep the faculty’s interest and the university’s interest at the forefront of his decisions. Excellent work!
• I am impressed with the fairness with which he makes Promotion and Tenure decisions.  He is almost always sympathetic with the faculty and still makes his decisions fairly.
• Learn what a Provost is supposed to do.
• Plenty of money to double the size of the Provost’s office and give everyone in it a raise. Meanwhile, faculty are quitting at an historic pace. He doesn’t care.
• he is accessible and friendly.
• Resources from the College of Arts and Letters have been moved into Science and Nursing without any rational basis. It is puzzling to say the least and unfair from all perspectives to misallocate resources without appropriate discussion with university wide faculty groups. He has protected a dean who does not appreciate high standards of performance for tenure and promotion which undermines the image of the overall image of FAU and also its strategic goal to enhance quality.
• Poor handing of the Director of Health Administration demotion by Dan Gropper….
• The Accreditation process was a joke, many lies told. Having to call students to beg them to come to the school? After the Provost screwed up he graduation rates – the FACULTY have to fix it?  This school (or at least this college) is a joke – and trust me EVERYONE knows it and talks about it. .
• The University administrators confirmed Dean Gropper’s recommendation, and Dr. Nash filed a grievance.  The arbitrator found that the University did not follow required procedures when evaluating Dr. Nash for tenure and ruled that the University should follow the established criteria and grant tenure.  Instead of following the arbitrator’s ruling, the University chose to appeal the decision to the appropriate court.  Again, their actions are unethical and unwise.  No unbiased, knowledgeable observer would find that the University followed the established criteria when evaluating Dr. Nash.
• I have worked in public jobs for fifty-one years including thirty years in academe.  During those fifty-one years, I have never been associated with an entity with such low ethical standards throughout the entity.  It is very disappointing that a University would have such low standards since Universities are supposed to help students develop their ethical standards.  Based on the actions of FAU’s administration, they will help students develop unethical standards.
• Respect unit and college personnel decisions.
• Stop be so idealistic
• Be more down to earth
• WE are a low tier state university, not UF or FSU, be more realistic
• Treat faculty with more respect.
• GET MORE RAISES, MERIT PAY, MARKET EQUITY PAY FOR FACULTY EVERY YEAR!
• Increase the pay regularly.
• Allow students and faculty to evaluate  admin too at every level possible
• He is much better than the past provost.
• Put more effective assist provost in place on each of the campuses and in Boca, they are all insincere, ineffective, and kiss-ups that DO NOTHING FOR THE FACULTY OR FAU, if you want to improve FAU, put better admin in place at all levels, college, campus etc.
• Faculty deserve better and more effective leaders who care and work for them and our great students
• Provost Perry needs to put every dean and chair up for a confidence vote to their faculty and improve admin. at each level. We need to give our leaders votes of confidence every year, this should be mandatory. We need to vote out the poor and weak leaders at the university, colleges, and campuses NOW!
• He needs to fire Diane Alperin and worthless admin like her who are insincere and do nothing to bring this university forward, there is just too much waste in admin at all levesl.
• A good provost
• Resign
• I appreciate all the work that he has done surrounding the metrics. It is a thankless task.
• I do not understand why he hired Deb Floyd and Victoria Brown without a more broad-based search.
• He is okay
• Not honoring written start up packages to newly hired faculty is unprofessional and reflects badly on FAU as a whole. Top notch experimentalists have been hired and the promised equipment funds have been frozen for a year and there is no end in sight.
• has completely abandoned the charade of seeking faculty input. Both the process for hiring of Deans and the strategic plan have been embarrassingly provincial; the university is declining and not improving; the honeymoon was short and is over. And all this despite the fact that we are in a time of relative economic prosperity.
• Has abandoned all but the pretense of seeking faculty input. His wisdom is less than that of the collective faculty, his policies are taking us nowhere.
• One of the best provosts that we have had in a long time.
• He is approachable and smart.
• I do not believe Provost Perry is taking the necessary steps to lead FAU in becoming a Research I university. Using Research I university criteria to evaluate FAU faculty who carry heavy teaching loads is unrealistic.
• Poor leadership, communication skills. FAU would be better served with somebody with a vision and with ability to make choices. It is tiring to hear the empty and bombastic words. He is making everything in his capacity to perpetuate mediocrity in all levels.
• He has really grown into the role. Any misgivings about his abilities have been long dispelled. He is a true leader who leads by example. Great job!!
• He’s a nice person, but he surrounded himself with a bunch of incompetents from Psychology when he was College of Science Dean and now the rest of the College of Science is paying the price for this.  Every Assistant Dean and all the so-called “advisors” in the College of Science should be dismissed with prejudice, for they make a mockery of that which they profess to perform in their official duties.
• Dean Perry is trying and he knows college and university.  That is a good part.  The bad part is that sometimes he does not seem to make a timely and unbiased decisions where and when these decisions are needed.
• When Dean, he could only complain about the autocratic consolidation of power in the office of the Provost.  Now he has grabbed even more authority.  Why are the faculty apathetic?  Because no decisions matter except those made by the provost, who is not famous for listening.

Comments on President John Kelly

The university would be better served if President JOHN KELLY would: 

• His first act after promising to address the very serious faculty salary issue was to throw 16 million into an indoor practice area for the football team, and then remain silent as the administration refused salary raises.  That was quick.  Who is he servicing?
• stop the upbeat crap. It’s irritating to hear phrases like “poised” when it is far from accurate. FAU has a few strong faculty. But students are unprepared and work far too many hours. At this point, all the low hanging fruit has been worked through. it will be a long march to anything higher and esp. to regular pay raises and travel money. Poised–for what, given the absence of $ for research.
• kept his word
• Take care of real structural issues of buildings and equipment and place less energy on cosmetic issues.
• Work with the provost to fill positions vacated by faculty members who have left FAU for universities where they receive stronger research support and higher salaries. FAU cannot become a top ranked university without a top ranked research faculty. If lines aren’t filled, remaining faculty in departments will be completely overburdened with teaching responsibilities and won’t be able to produce the quantity and quality of research needed to propel FAU to the top ranks.
• Allow us to offer graduate students better deals.
• Put more emphasis on a liberal arts education and not just STEM; put resources into faculty and student education instead of football
• Metrics are not the measure of all things. While he promotes measures of institutional performance that are important to the legislature, and therefore to FAU, he should also promote a vision for the university.
• Engage more with Deans, faculty and staff.
• share more time with the college Deans
• address the needs of our current students.
• Where is the raise he promised? I believed I heard him claim the faculty salaries was his priority…very disappointing
• continue to lead with competence.
• Continue to make sure that the ARTS are part of the University Strategic Plan.
• focus less on sound bytes and more on academically-sound decisions.   Too much emphasis on PR and not enough emphasis on academic essentials.
• Go away.  We have already discovered that he talks out of many sides of his mouth.  GO OWLS.  BUT don’t give the faculty any support or a raise, (which of course he is very concerned about) or spend any time dealing with the basics of University life. Just flash and wasted money. Another great plan that is part of the Race to the Bottom.  IT just keeps on getting worse and he is not part of the solution, he just supports the tea-party board,
• make an appearance other than for donors and the BOT. His only priority is fundraising for football. Congrats on the $50 million practice field, now we are stuck with more than $100 million in football debt.
• n/a
• Our department is short on faculty; please give permission to allow us to open searches.
• Our adjuncts are grossly under paid; please give permission and money to raise their salaries.
• Just like our highways and bridges, some of our buildings and facilities are in serious need of repair as well as updating and improving. Programming, curriculum, and outcomes are directly affected by this.
• Protect the importance of foreign languages and Humanities for the interest of the University. FAU should create well-rounded graduates who will be good citizens, not only good work-force.
• Recognize that faculty & staff are also his constituents.
• Go away
• Be more involved with Faculty & students
• Seriously; 15 million for football?
• Improve treatment of non-tenured faculty.
• Care more about faculty needs.
• stay at FAU for 20 years
• stop dreaming!
• be more realistic!
• listen to the faculty, not the mediocre admin you have in place!
• Care more about students and facutly
• stop pushing sports so much and focus on academics
• See the future of FAU and the role of education in a democratic society through the eyes of (his own) children. Leadership means being everybody’s leader, not just leading those who agree with you. Think big and be bold.
• He does not respond to faculty or students. What can we say about his leadership?
• remember that quality faculty will leave if they are not supported in more ways than just kinds words; recall that promises to increase faculty salaries had been made
• strongly advocate for faculty in terms of raises.  Recognize that different colleges need different P & T criteria.  COE faculty have 3/3 + service to public schools load, while faculty in other colleges have 2/2 or even 2/1 loads–yet we are judged on same criteria–very unfair.
• Keep on track with his current priorities.
• Be honest
• Be inclusive
• Not be prejudiced
• Double up as Florida Governor 😉
• Stop viewing international students merely as cash cows.
• Take seriously our obligations to provide appropriate curriculum for students who constitute our “most diverse” university. The College of Education can help here.
• Actively work with the college of Education’s scholars in diversity education to craft a less economically-oriented and more socially-focused response to the diversity of our community.
• Verdict still out
• Out of touch…
• Based his strategies on realistic goals.  No raises until we get more out of state or country students? UNACCEPTABLE!
• Stop hiring more administrators! Try holding the ones you have accountable first.  A few great administrators beats a ton of incompetent administrators which is where we sit today.
• HE NEEDS A NEW ADMINISTRATION; REMOVAL OF ALL DEANS.
• FOR HOW LONG SHOULD DAINA ALPRIN BE TEH ASSOCIATE PROVOST ?!
• Audit deans and chairs randomly.
• Create sense of stability
• Great leader!
• go back to Clemson
• Understand the message he sends when he appears to promote the success of the football team as the number one priority of an institute of higher learning.
• FAU is going to reach its potential under President Kelly.
• Give faculty a raise. It is time to make that a higher priority. I never thought I would be considering leaving FAU but I am. How many years ca we take unfair practices?
• Equally support each college, not demonstrate favoritism
• Although his goal is to move FAU to a research intensive university, with the current faculty teaching loads, this goal is unrealistic. He should openly speak to this issue and compare differences in teaching loads between research intensive universities and FAU.
• Focus and make priorities. Bring in new administrators and fresh thinking. Runs a risk of being house trained by existing Deans and other administrators.
• Be more involved in the day to day running of the university. He’s too focused on grand schemes and fund raising.
• Fire/demote most of FAU’s senior administrators, especially Corey King (fire), Ed Pratt (fire), Gary Perry (demote), Ingrid Johansen (fire), former President MJ Saunders (fire), former VP for Research Barry Rosson (fire), former Provost Janet Claiborne (fire), all Assist-ant/Associate Deans in the College of Science (fire), all “advisors” in the College of Science (fire) and all Chairs in the College of Science (demote).
• Stop running university as a business and remember that it is an educational institution.
• Stop telling same things to everyone in the academic departments and doing something completely different behind their backs.
• Actually LISTEN to the suggestions from the faculty and mid level administration.
• Recruit an new Provost
• Find out what is going on in the university outside of the bubble.  Too much trust has been placed in the insiders promoted without external searches.
• Leave.  Takes credit for stuff he doesn’t do… Passes blame on to others

Additional comments about President JOHN KELLY: 

• Race to the Top?  It is clearly more like a race to the bottom, and that is not even addressing the grammar issue.
• smerky. not credible.
• not clear yet
• We are in much better hands with this one!
• I really like him so far. He’s got a tough job, and he’s done a lot to turn around the situation at FAU in a short period. Though I don’t agree with all of his areas of emphasis, I think he’s a strong leader whom I would like to see stay at FAU for the foreseeable future.
• How about pressing the board for faculty raises? We can’t have a world class university when we lose faculty to other institutions because FAU salaries are not competitive.
• He has visited all units and met with faculty, which is unprecedented.  He is also the first truly competent President we have had in a long time.  I hope that he will assist all disciplines within the college to excel and not just focus unilaterally on STEM disciplines.
• seems more focused on building his c.v. for the next job than on sustainable and realistic initiatives
• Enjoy your mansion. What was all that wasted time in departments when you could have been having more dinner parties?
• He has dramatically improved the University’s image in the community in short order, but has done little to address faculty & staff morale.
• In his short time here, he has proved himself to be just another corporate tool that does not know who or what the faculty is.  His statements during his whirlwind tour of departments were just mouth talk-he is a corporate tool who does not know what academics are what a college president entails.  He should be fired on his promise to care about faculty salaries alone– he promised to care, then did nothing as the administration banned salary raises for this year.  That is all that had to happen to show his true colors==that and his incessant use of corporate language.
• Merely creating a strategic plan without the needed resources rings hollow. And the contrast with the cultivating big donors to support athletics clearly suggests that the President does not prioritize academics. The Schmidt donation to build an athletic center is a clear example of misplaced priorities. Faculty and staff salary stagnation is a critical issue and it is related to the low morale and retention of high quality faculty. If those issues are not addressed by the President in the next year, there will be more ‘brain drain’ and instead of research faculty, there will be more instructors who are not as qualified to teach or build the university’s national profile.
• Stop wasting money on a losing cause, football
• The University administrators confirmed Dean Gropper’s recommendation, and Dr. Nash filed a grievance.  The arbitrator found that the University did not follow required procedures when evaluating Dr. Nash for tenure and ruled that the University should follow the established criteria and grant tenure.  Instead of following the arbitrator’s ruling, the University chose to appeal the decision to the appropriate court.  Again, their actions are unethical and unwise.  No unbiased, knowledgeable observer would find that the University followed the established criteria when evaluating Dr. Nash.
• I have worked in public jobs for fifty-one years including thirty years in academe.  During those fifty-one years, I have never been associated with an entity with such low ethical standards throughout the entity.  It is very disappointing that a University would have such low standards since Universities are supposed to help students develop their ethical standards.  Based on the actions of FAU’s administration, they will help students develop unethical standards.
• We needed him
• He really listens and this quality is much appreciated by faculty.
• Very idealistic and a real dreamer, but out of touch and he does not have his feet on the ground.
• He needs better leaders in place the the college levels, we have horrible deans and chairs in place for years now that are bullies and treat students and faculty horribly. The faculty and students at FAU deserve better than the pathetic admin we have to tolerate with daily.
• Get faculty salaries up to par, get raises every year for faculty, get across the living raises along with year market equity, and merit year, not every 3-4 years.
• When you work on please faculty and students then FAU will rise to the top, it will not work now as you only raise up your weak admin. FAU should not be flying its flag very high today, it allows for mediocrity within the university by deans, assoc. deans, assoc. provosts, chairs, etc. they treat faculty poorly and are not professional.  We need and deserve better admin if FAU is ever going to climb to the top.
• Listen to the faculty more.Be present at all campuses and colleges more. Care more, take a pay cut and give your faculty hefty raises.
• start more programs overseas in Latin America and Spain, do more to makes us a great state university that serves a more local community, stop trying to think that FAU can be a Harvard, Stanford, or Yale, accept us for just being a good middle range state university, stop being so unrealistic.
• Faculty appreciated his efforts to meet with all departments to share his ideas and listen to concerns.
• He has brought much needed leadership to the university especially after a series of very embarrassing disasters over past years.
• We are lucky to have him at the helm.
• Resign
• I appreciated the “listening tour” that the president did. We hope he continues to listen.
• More importantly, I hope that over time he can convince the state about the idiocy of their metrics-oriented plan which is only perpetuating a divide-and-conquer mentality within the state. In state collaboration is what we need, not competition for miserable amounts of dollars.
• Doing nothing to hold on to strong faculty.
• He needs to get his priorities straight and that should begin by making the faculty matter in decisions, salary, and appreciation.
• Says he collaborates… Ok let’s see him walk that talk!
• This place is awful to faculty.  Borders on abusive and in some departments it IS abusive to faculty. Please ake that stop.  In reality, you are the only one who can, but since you have not done anything about it yet….One must assume you are OK with it?
• I WISH HIM LUCK; WE NEED TO ASK DICK SCHMIDT MONEYS FOR ACADEMIC GOALS….
• No evidence that reaching out to the local Jewish community is high on the President priorities list.
• see comments re Perry above.
• Still new – mostly satisfied with his performance so far.
• Has done an outstanding job of promoting the university.
• He seems to be doing great things for the university already.
• Amazing year!
• Less emphasis on sports and more on scholarly activities. Replace mediocre administrators with people who know their business.  You rely on very average people and many are pulling wool over the eyes. They are very good in talking thought.
• All in all, he’s doing a great job. He is visible to faculty and students, has surrounded himself with an excellent team, and has formulated a vision.
• He promised to raise admission standards but this writer can’t detect anything that has been done to raise standards.  Hopefully, he’ll actually do this.
• His wife is dictating university decisions… Spend 50 k because she doesn’t like the color of chairs in the stadium? Has the university pay to walk her dog and babysit her kids? Has the university pay to decorate for Halloween? Where is the paper on this?