[Vision2020] U of I Program Cuts

[Joseph Campbell]

Great exchange here! Mo is right that we can’t all handle the burden.  
Those that can should do so, as Roger suggests, but the cuts should  
not be across the board, as Mo notes. I agree with Mo, too, that  
diversity is important.


On 1/9/09 1:28 PM, "Mo Hendrickson" <hend5953 at vandals.uidaho.edu> wrote:

Roger-

A couple of comments and questions regarding you program cuts.

First, you write, "To help save some programs and jobs. everyone  
should take a 5 to 10% pay cut. Less money is better than no money."   
I am glad to hear that you are in a financial postion to take that  
kind of cut.  There are many of us working for the University that  
could not manage that cut.  I currently work in an IH position and  
have not had any pay increase in the three years in that position.  So  
sure ask the administration to take reductions, but the folks down on  
the bottom of the pay chain can't handle that kind of reduction.

I also question your statement, "I don't think the University needs  
that many people in development or diversity at this point."  I am  
guessing that your view on diverity is based on an older model of  
diversity, that it is about skin color and gender.  In my point of  
view, diversity is more than tracking how many people of color we have  
on campus, it is more than the number of women we have in the  
classrooms, diversity includes all of us, it is religion, it is  
gender, it is white men over 40, it is women in their 20's,  
understanding diversity is key in creating an environment in which  
students, staff, and faculty thrive.  We should be investing in  
diversity not cutting it.  That doesn't mean throwing money at it and  
giving it lip service, but really assessing the incredible resources  
we have on campus and finding ways to use them to bring in more  
students, to attract the best and brightest scholars.  I don't want UI  
to become a homogenized unit, with everyone looking, thinking and  
acting the same, there is no life in that.

I would also argue that this university if understaffed in terms of  
diversity programming not over staffed.  We are currently have two key  
diversity positions on campus that are vacant and those vacancy are  
being felt.  So please tell me why you think we need less people in  
diversity.

-Mo Hendrickson
A proud advocate for diversity
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