Rate your Presidet/Rector

[moe.ron]

How would you rate your President or Rector on a rating between 1 to 10. Please state your President/Rector/Chancellor name and your college.

Buffalo State College
Dr. Muriel A. Howard - Rating of about a 7. Not sure anymore, but I herd she's doing a whole lot better with renovating the campus.

Thogh she did something bad and brought in Barnes and Noble.

[DeltaSigStan]

San Diego State University-

Dr. Stephen Weber- ZERO.

This guy has no balls. When Mecha wanted to eliminate our "culturally insensitive" mascot, and we put it to a voted and REJECTED that proposal, he eliminated it anyway just to get less controversey, which of course made more. Then he came out with that goofy ass "Ambassador".

All he cares about is PR, which I don't get since his decisions are bad ones. Instead of focusing on lessening class size, getting more full time professors and you know, STUFF THAT ACTUALLY MATTER, he focuses on renaming buildings and mascots.

Everytime our Student Government votes for a decision he's against, he calls them incompetent. I could go on and on, but all I know is, he has ruined SDSU by trying to impress alumni and the community instead of bettering the undergraduate education.

Now we have SDSU Month. SDSU is spending 500,000$ for a month to promote activities and fairs and stuff to make the school look nice to the community. I know just about EVERY organization, Most of them vital to many students, could use that money (Hell, we're going to be one of a few NCAA football schools without a marching band, which is sure to piss off many alumni). Instead he's pissing it away on a bad PR stunt.

Sorry to wax, just needed to tell the truth.

[Betarulz!]

Since Nebraska has a University System and the president is of the whole system it's hard to really judge him. So I'll talk about our Chancellor.

Harvey Pearlman - Chancellor of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. 7.5

With the gargantuan budget cuts that have rocked UNL (cut #4 to happen in june) ole' Harvey has really focused on not hurting Undergraduate education which was his number one priority. He has also made some really great hires of associate chancellors, particularly the chancellor for research. UNL has earned close to 50 million dollars in reaserch donations in just this school year.

Harvey gets dropped a little because it at times doesn't appear that he's fighting hard enough to prevent budget cuts. The cuts have gotten so bad that it is apparent that UNL might become the first institution of higher learning in the history of education and the world to fire tenured faculty. What type of quality professors would be able to get with that type of job security???

[KSigkid]

That is a loaded question when it comes to my school.

For those of ya'll who don't know - John Silber is chancellor of Boston U. He's come under fire over the past, oh, 20 years for the following:

1) eliminating the gay student alliance at Boston U. Academy, a high school run by boston university.
2) elminiating mass numbers of faculty jobs because he thought they were un-needed, and because he wanted to RAISE the student to faculty ratio (yes, raise it). In addition, he has resisted making repairs on buildings on campus, putting money into building more dorms and other lesser problems.
3) he instituted an unpopular guest policy that makes it nearly impossible for BU students to get into dorms on campus that they dont' live in.
4) he has a hatred of the greek system - he sold all of our on-campus houses to MIT, and nearly drove the system out of existence before a comeback in the mid to late 80s. This is the same guy who advocated cutting the football program of University of Texas when he was a Dean there in the 60s

There's a host of other complaints about him, but there are some positives.

1)He's raised Boston U.'s reputation from that of a commuter school to one of the top universities on the east coast - the college of communication, management, and engineering are some of the top schools in the country, and the medical program and law school are very good programs as well.

2) he has raised alumni relations to the point where the alumni board of control gives massive amounts of money; the BU endowment is extremely large and, although donations have decreased in the past few years, the school still does very well; part of that is the fact that it's the 2nd biggest landowner in Boston, but that's a whole other story.

3)if you sit down and talk to him, he really is quite an intelligent and reasonable man. I saw him speak at a couple of Campus Leadership dinners, and he's actually not a bad guy to talk to; if you listen to him one-on-one, you actually get to see some of the points he's made, and the papers have sort of made him into the second coming of Satan.

That said....I don't agree with a hell of a lot of his decisions, and question some of his tactics - for all he has done though, he's helped out BU a ton.

Not sure of what to rate him, because there are just too many sides of the story.

(sorry this was so long)
Collin

[Kevin]

Probably a 10...

Our President, Roger Webb is *aggressively* fighting to make UCO Oklahoma's next comprehensive University. We're currently rebuilding our stadium -- I think he's shooting to be a Division IAA school in the next few years (the stadium's really pathetic right now). The school is thinking WAY outside the box as far as raising capital. We used to be a traditional teacher's college and were that way probably through the 60's.. So not a lot in the way of rich alumni. We're trying to bring in a Major League Soccer Franchise for example.

The student body is energetic in helping the school achieve its goals, he works with the student leaders and actually runs policies through us before he implements them. We for example approved a measure that would raise tuition 7% (it's needed) just recently. Despite HUGE cutbacks and being the lowest student to dollar ratio in the state we had the largest freshman enrollment increase in the state last year.

He's very pro-Greek (an SAE I think)... Turns a lot of stuff completely over to us. Great guy all around.

[DeltaSigStan]

Originally posted by ktsnake
We're trying to bring in a Major League Soccer Franchise for example.
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Guy gets a 10 in my book