Pat Logan's Web Log
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Note: In September 2009, I converted this blog from a long html page to a database-driven version, to make it faster loading and easier to scan. Some of the links (references to other blog postings) on the full posts will not work. These will be repaired later this fall.
September 4, 2009
"Blue Ribbon Preface": Notes on the Report of the Blue Ribbon Commission on the Future of URI; thank you to Commission Chair Andrew Harris. (full post)
July 1, 2009
"CELS Transition": Departure of a dean leaves questions about the past administration of the College of the Enviornment and Life Sciences and about the interim administration, including issues of administrative bullying, shared governance, accountability, and a residual case of plagiarism. (full post)
March 9, 2009
"We can’t do this anymore": Commentary on the shortened time span in the charge to the Blue Ribbon Commission on the Future of URI. (full post)
March 4, 2009
"Scenarios": CELS efforts to comply with Board mandates to cut majors reveal the absurdity of the exercise within that College and of the mandate itself. (full post)
February 22, 2009
"Roads Diverging": Long term planning has not been URI's forte. Can the University move from a short-term market orientation in its planning toward a longer-term perspective as an institution focused on engaging in major social transitioning necessary for resiliency during the remainder of the century? (full post)
November 24, 2008
"URI Visions": The Provost's Academic Vision exercise is contrasted with the self-serving, bogus STAC report, "Building the Future at the University of Rhode Island: Research, Innovation & Economic Growth." (full post)
July 21, 2008
"Detoxing URI": Thoughts on pervasive demoralization of faculty and staff at URI, and on administrative responses to the toxic environment. (full post)
July 18, 2008
"Galleries Finale": Chronicle of the end processes when URI administration stuck to its guns and tossed the Fine Arts Center Galleries onto the pile of burning dross to satisfy the gods of finance. (full post)
June 23, 2008
"The Ugly Spotlight on the New Culture for Learning<": Early chronicle of the efforts to prevent closing the URI Fine Arts Center Galleries. (full post)
June 9, 2008
"Cutting to the Soul": Announcement of the elimination of the Fine Arts Center Galleries and implications for the "New Culture for Learning" and the Branding Initiative. (full post)
May 30, 2008
"Campus Trajectory": Thoughts on State budget cutting and the withdrawal of the social contract between the State and URI. (full post)
March 20, 2008
"Un-sustainable": The over-used phrase sustainability needs to be replaced; why, and with what? (full post)
March 9, 2008
"Aware Enough": We have adequate awareness of global limits and the implications for crisis in the future. Why are we not acting? (full post)
February 24, 2008
"Far Field": In which it is proposed to begin a web log on the subject of the University of Rhode Island and its bearing on the world around it. (full post)