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Kristina Johnson (OSU President)

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My brother recently walked away from his Dean position at a fairly large University. If what I saw him go through over the years and how he was treated when he resigned is any indication of University politics, especially what he offered to do for the University as he left to help us deal with major family matters, is any indication of how Universities function well suffice it to say FUCK that noise. No good deed goes unpunished is applicable.
 
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RuGettinIt said:
My brother recently walked away from his Dean position at a fairly large University. If what I saw him go through over the years and how he was treated when he resigned is any indication of University politics, especially what he offered to do for the University as he left to help us deal with major family matters, is any indication of how Universities function well suffice it to say FUCK that noise. No good deed goes unpunished is applicable.
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as an undergrad i was involved in getting research funding to set up a lab in our department. and then i took this work into my master's. my experience (at the time) was that the politics, alliances, and infighting is on an other-wordly level. the faculty and administrators in the different departments fought like a bunch of grumpy kindergarteners. i imagine it's even worse than congress, because at least congressmen are somehow elected and have a constituency they need to answer to (nominally).

one of the main jobs of the prez is to keep all the fallout from that (meaning losing research money and grants and donations) to a minimum. and the bigger the school, the worse it is. so i can easily imagine that she had to knock some heads around to remind everyone what they're all there to do. hence (maybe) her ability to get OSU's endowment and research dollars up to record levels.

i know nothing about the situation, but there are things that male leaders can get away with doing (ie being super demanding) that female leaders will get flagged for.
 
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shetuck said:
one of the main jobs of the prez is to keep all the fallout from that (meaning losing research money and grants and donations) to a minimum. and the bigger the school, the worse it is. so i can easily imagine that she had to knock some heads around to remind everyone what they're all there to do. hence (maybe) her ability to get OSU's endowment and research dollars up to record levels.
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Except the faculty seem to love her and are upset that she's leaving. The reports specifically mention her "staff" as the source of the problems. So, it seems like she wasn't taking on powerful and entrenched faculty and department interests for the good of the university but, rather, just being a bully to her underlings.

Don't get me wrong, I thought she was doing a great job. Those research and endowment levels, however, aren't some reversal of negative trends but merely the culmination of where they've been going for decades.
 
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