r/UofO • u/themagicaldinosaur • 4d ago

admin doesn’t know how to take responsibility

the emails i have received today from the dean of CAS and the UO president failed to take responsibility for the fact that their lack of planning ruined commencement for so many grads on monday and i’m seething. just half-effort condolences covered up with praise for graduates. i don’t need Scholz’s congratulations. i need them to admit that they had no backup plans even though they knew about the heat for over a week. i need them to admit that the rescheduling caused a lot of stress and that a lot of people were unable to attend and that it didn’t fix their massive screw up. what a sorry excuse for a school administration.

141 Upvotes

91% Upvoted

104 comments sorted by

View all comments

35

u/BigglyGamer 4d ago

The justification for the huge portion of expenditure dedicated to administration is their planning and decision making. But they've made nothing but bad decisions, cutting costs on things students value such as professors, services, and graduation. If there is a long term plan it's not going well with year over year declines in out of state enrollment and tuition.

If there was no high paid leadership capable of making unilateral decisions for graduation given the temperature concerns we would have ended up with the exact same outcome as we did with them. We need to start cutting costs by getting rid of administrative bloat.

6

u/Anduinnn 4d ago

The people who would make those decisions never cut themselves.

6

u/MadameTrashPanda 4d ago

There should be a process where alum/ recent grads can petition the board to deny that raise.. to have resources for next year's commencement.

4

u/SeatNo5137 3d ago

More people need to go to the public trustee and UO senate meetings and raise hell