[Vision2020] Statesman weighs in on ISU

Fri Feb 25 08:27:20 PST 2011

Speaking of overpaid (and an indication of skewed priorities), I recently read that Boise State football coach Chris Petersen's salary breaks down to $482/hour.  Granted, much of this is not state money, but a guy can live pretty well on that.  If he stuck to top ramen and generics....

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:13:00 -0800
From: donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
To: suehovey at moscow.com; philosopher.joe at gmail.com
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Statesman weighs in on ISU

Joe,

Congratulations on your promotion!

You ask who I think is overpaid, OK, fine. Anyone making over $70,000 a year at UI or WSU is overpaid. If you want a list of names you can look them yourself as they are available online. If an elementary teacher starts at $28 K so should the teachers at the UI and WSU. It is only fair. Elementary teachers have a harder job. 

Donovan Arnold

--- On Thu, 2/24/11, Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Statesman weighs in on ISU
To: "Sue Hovey" <suehovey at moscow.com>
Cc: "Donovan Arnold" <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>, "Dan Carscallen" <areaman at moscow.com>, "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Date: Thursday, February 24, 2011, 7:26 PM

Donovan writes: "But this is not the case for many administrators and professors in our region who are paid often twice what they are worth." Who? Which administrators and professors in our region are paid twice what they are worth? You say "many." Name a few. You won't and can't.

This is a reckless, irresponsible comment. Go and make reckless comments about your own job but I would appreciate it if you wouldn't make them about mine. At least not while both local universities are in a financial crisis.

By the way, I found out today that I've been promoted to full Professor.

Best, Joe

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Sue Hovey <suehovey at moscow.com> wrote:

That’s what I was telling you.  Your phrase “government employees”  covers them all.  I’m not really in a position to determine whether many administrators and professors in our region are paid twice what they are worth but I will say the ones I know and work with are dedicated, hard working folks.  

Sue   

From: Donovan Arnold 
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 12:24 PM
To: Dan Carscallen ; Joe Campbell ; Sue Hovey 

Cc: Moscow Vision 2020 
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Statesman weighs in on ISU

Sue,

To the contrary, Sue, I am amazed at what some government employees are able to do with so few resources here in Idaho. Most people that work in the government are underpaid. But this is not the case for many administrators and professors in our region who are paid often twice what they are worth.

Elementary teachers, in general, and especially in Idaho, are the most underpaid people for what they do, the crap they put up with, and the amount of education they have acquired, and the value of their work. Two of my best friends are teachers. 

You don't have to preach to me how underpaid people are working with people with disabilities, I grew in a family that did just that. My job almost every morning is to take care of six people with disabilities.

I hope everything is going well in Hawaii, especially with that US Rep of yours : P. 

Donovan Arnold

--- On Thu, 2/24/11, Sue Hovey <suehovey at moscow.com> wrote:

From: Sue Hovey <suehovey at moscow.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Statesman weighs in on ISU
To: "Donovan Arnold" <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>, "Dan Carscallen" <areaman at moscow.com>, "Joe Campbell" <philosopher.joe at gmail.com>
Cc: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Date: Thursday, February 24, 2011, 2:08 PM

Donovan, 
And, of course, this flip statement reflects your assumption that by nature government employees aren’t productive and should in every instance be able to do more.  I tell you, Donovan, the people who work with my disabled daughter are underpaid, overworked, and are being forced into situations for which they are unprepared.  And even so, in a few months almost 1/3rd or more may well be jobless.  It’s nice to have you back online again, but in this case you really do know better. You’ve  been there.   

Even in the private sector getting along to hold a job may well mean compromising ones ethics, harming other folks, not standing up in the face of grave error.  That’s what those ISU folks were trying to oppose. Even if you disagree with their intent your casting them as lazy and unproductive ignores the issue.

Sue H. 

From: Donovan Arnold 
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 4:2
To: Dan Carscallen ; Joe Campbell 
Cc: Moscow Vision 2020 
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Statesman weighs in on ISU

The SBOE should just fire everyone if it wishes to start fresh. Kind of hard to do that if they keep the same President which is half the problem. Maybe if government employees knew, like the rest of us in the private sector, that if they cannot get along and be productive they will be out of a job, they would try harder to get things done.

Donovan Arnold

--- On Tue, 2/22/11, Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Statesman weighs in on ISU
To: "Dan Carscallen" <areaman at moscow.com>
Cc: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 9:59 PM

Oops! I feel a bit like Roseanne Roseannadana. Nevermind!

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Dan Carscallen <areaman at moscow.com> wrote:

Joe, 

Did you read the editorial? From what I gather, they agree with you

DC

On Feb 22, 2011, at 17:58, Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com> wrote:

Great advice! Maybe they should just shut up and stick to the news!

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Ron Force <rforce2003 at yahoo.com> wrote:

February 22, 2011
Our View: Memo to ISU faculty: Just shut up and teach
- Idaho StatesmanSeventy-six percent of Idaho State University’s faculty senators have a problem with Arthur Vailas. Earlier this month, they cast a no-confidence vote and urged their embattled president to step down. 
And 100 percent of State Board of Education members have a problem with the ISU faculty Senate. On Thursday, the board voted unanimously to disband the Senate — at Vailas’ urging.
Well, that’s one way to try to make a crisis disappear. Who needs allies on campus when you have a compliant State Board in your pocket?
The message, for faculty and staff at ISU and other campuses, could hardly be more clear. If you have a complaint or a criticism, the State Board doesn’t want to hear from you or help solve problems.
Of course, that’s not how the board spins it. “The impasse between the leadership of the senate group and the administration has reached a point where the prospect of any kind of progress was simply non-existent,” board President Richard Westerberg said. “It’s time to start over.”
Starting over? Sure. But only after the board made sure to give Vailas all the leverage, and marginalize his faculty critics.
Oh, there will still be a place for the faculty to have a say. Just on Vailas’ terms. The board ordered Vailas to set up an interim advisory structure and come back in April and propose what the board calls a “reconstituted faculty Senate and a new faculty governance model.”
How’s that for even-handed?
It’s remarkable that the State Board chose to choose sides, especially at this advanced stage of unrest. 
Vailas has been on the job since 2006, providing ample time for tensions to degenerate into grudges. The problems aren’t likely to just go away. It’s naive for the State Board to act as if that’s even a possibility.
Faculty members have aired some serious issues that warrant more active attention from the State Board — including complaints of closed-door budget decisions and high staff turnover.
These concerns should resonate under any circumstances — and especially during a funding crisis that requires university leaders to make tough budget decisions, explain policy publicly and clearly and get and keep buy-in from key faculty and staff.
“Sometimes we have to stand up and make our voices heard,” said ISU Faculty Senate chairman Phil Cole, according to the Associated Press. “The internal strife at ISU is killing ISU.”
Turns out Cole was worried over nothing. The State Board of Education has a foolproof plan for handling “internal strife.” Just tell all the naysayers to shut up.“Our View” is the editorial position of the Idaho Statesman. It is an unsigned opinion expressing the consensus of the Statesman’s editorial board. To comment on an editorial or suggest a topic, e-mail editorial at idahostatesman.com.

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