It has gotten significantly worse.
There are 9 Trustees elected by the Alumni (one of whom wrote the column posted above)
Wanna' see the rest of them in action? Come join me at tomorrow's Board meeting
As I wrote to an Alumni Trustee on this topic earlier:
"I hope that this outrageous and disgusting maneuver receives the PUBLIC discussion - and vociferous opposition - it deserves.
Not that it matters, but if I were responsible for opposing this atrocity, I would be coming into that discussion with a long list of relevant information requests - where access had been denied.
Information requests like - just to use a for instance:
"How many Tenured Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant Professors are currently employed full-time by Penn State? And what is the historical data over the last 10-20 years?"
Relevant information like that - which would be mandatory data to have at hand in order to intelligently discuss items like budgets and tuition increases. [I think it would probably highlight the absurdity of the sky-rocketing tuition structure - - - and raise the questions of "Just where the F is all the money going?" - - - - but that's just me]
Of course, that would require that Trustees HAVE asked for information like that - - - and I am (sadly) wagering that our Trustees have been unanimously too damn lazy to even care to ask. And certainly too lazy to analyze and evaluate.
The legacy of lazy, disengaged, self-serving, and intellectually-questionable Trustees did not end in 2011.
But - if a perfect world were to exist - or even just a non-completely-FUBAR one - THOSE are the types of arguments that should be brought up."
