BU candidate garners criticism
PJStar comments should typically be used for entertainment purposes only as they inevitably always turn into rants about racism, sexism, or why Peoria blows.
But once in a while the comments can be quite interesting.
Under the article “BU candidate garners praise” are these comments about new Bradley’s new president Joanne Glasser:
I hope you are not an administrator that will be under her. If you are, you will most likely be looking for a new job by next week. In fact, most of the administrators at Bradley will be looking very soon. Whether she fires them, or they figure her out on their own, most administrators will be cleared out soon. She has had 6 different Provosts at EKU and too many other administrators to mention.
If you really want to know about Joann contact all the former EKU administrators that either left or were fired since she arrived. Beware of a mean, nasty snake. She is not what is appears in interviews, students who are around for 4 years think she’s great, faculty and staff who have to live with her for a long time cannot wait for her to leave.
Amen, you’re preaching to the choir. Good riddance to bad rubbage. Administrators of Bradley beware. You have taken on the worlds worst micromanaging control freak in the world.
I’m not here to judge, she sounds like a breath of fresh air to a University that has severely damaged it’s ties with the surrounding neighborhoods (or what’s left of them) after the Broski era. Maybe a little house cleaning isn’t such a bad thing.
Glad I’m not a Bradley administrator, though.
August 7th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
The commenters make it sound like she was capricious in firing the administrators, but maybe they were ineffective and needed to go and the former administrator didn’t do it because he was friends with them or he didn’t have the political clout. I mean, isn’t that a normal thing — when a new head honcho arrives, there’s a house-cleaning? I would be surprised if there weren’t.
I can think of at least one administrator I wouldn’t cry any crocodile tears over seeing fired…..
August 7th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
In my experience (primarily as a campus reporter) there are ALWAYS tensions between faculty and administration, partly because each is charged with keeping the other in check. Administration is concerned about money and PR; faculty are concerned about research, free speech, etc. (Sometimes someone even stops and worries about the students!)
Of course, there are a lot of ass-bad administrators out there, too. Unfortunately (and as in many areas of life), academia doesn’t particularly prepare one to manage a large institution like a modern college, and business management doesn’t prepare one to deal with the complex needs of a college setting, though one may manage the crap out of the money/business aspects!
August 8th, 2007 at 10:53 am
When Glasser took over at EKU from Bob Kustra (yes, the former Lt. Gov of IL), EKU was hemmorghing money and in horrible financial shape.
Isn’t it possible some of those administrators that were fired were at least partially to blame?