18.9.22

RATE YOUR DEANLETS.

Well, why not?  There is "Rate My Professor" and there have been several attempts at "Rate Your Students", and now there's what might be a futile and stupid gesture, although it could be an opportunity for the faculty to regain stewardship of the curriculum.
A new website allows faculty members, staff and graduate students to rate their university officials.

RateYourCampusAdmin.com allows anonymous faculty members to “evaluate” senior campus administrators.

“At RateYourCampusAdmin.com, you will have the power to evaluate the performance of the senior administrators on your campus, through a thoroughly researched, robust means for aggregating expert opinions about the quality of the service they deliver to your community,” the frontpage states.

The website’s home page displays a series of questions such as, “Are you tired of having little voice over the decisions on your campus?” and “Are you concerned about the spiraling costs of senior administration?”
Any faculty member who is "tired of having little voice" might have been complicit in the administrative usurpations, which began, years ago, with steps that eroded faculty authority in support of causes that many faculty members agreed with.

Perhaps such an effort will have an effect.  Otherwise, we could compile a new sheepshead deck.

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