CSNbbs

Bless you, John.

Already at 168 comments as of my last look and most of the trolls repost the same thing or multiple times.

I have issues at times, actually more often than not, with Archibald's reporting but he has hit this square on the head here. As I have mentioned before, I am a graduate of both UAB and UA, and I want what is best for each of them. I don't think that is a mutually exclusive vision. The sad thing is the people who profess to love UA most will end up destroying it if they do not allow for shared and fair governance.

http://facultysenate.ua.edu/files/2015/0...-20151.pdf

Read here the concerns of the UA Faculty Senate with the process of finding their next President, as well as their concerns and priorities going forward. These are anonymous responses, and I found it quite interesting how closely some of their concerns mirrored UAB's problems. It is quite a revealing, interesting, and informative document.

It isn't that UAB and the other UA Campus schools can't work together, but our visions are completely different. Both in Birmingham and Tuscaloosa we feel like we can be the premiere university in the state. Unfortunately that doesn't work with the Tuscaloosa vision so they're trying to kill programs at UAB and relegate UAB to a satellite medical campus.

Autonomy is pretty much all we're left with as a workable option.

interesting quote under the "tremendous growth" paragraph:

"4. Growth in quality of all athletic programs, adding to the morale of students, faculty and staff."

No mention of how profitable those programs have to be in order to increase that morale. Is it possible that just having quality athletic programs are in and of themselves good ????