Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Presidents Steals Success Credit from Instructors and their Support Staff

Now just think for one minute. What is a college or university in the business to do? Teach student right! Now who does that in a college or university? That would be the instructors and their instructional support staff. It is great when they are doing a good job and people are getting a good education. Now think for just one minute who is getting all of the credit for the great job that instructors and their instructional staff are doing for the students? That would be the presidents of the colleges and universities in this state who are failing to support the very people who are making them look good.

When the people working directly with the students tell the boards and regents that their management is a failure they get pushed aside as if their views have no real value to those same boards and regents. Management continues to fail in its main goal to provide an environment in which instructors can deliver a quality education to New Mexicans. Yet those same boards and regents send lobbyists to Santa Fe every year in order to control the state legislature so that they can continue to encourage management in it failed policies and then give them even greater salaries increases while holding down the earnings of the people who work directly with the students. How much can one system take before it breaks? Does anyone in this state truly care about it system of education?