Transparency State University

Looks like President Young has started to shake things up at TSU. A new organizational chart has been announced :  

  We wish former Provost Harris safe travels in his sudden sabbatical as well!  More changes coming…..?

We want to welcome our 5th President in 13 years and her family to TSU. Welcome Madam President Crumpton-Young!!!  Madam President has a full plate of problems to solve beginning with reopening the campus after Covid-19.  Will we be finally returning to campus this fall?   What about employee morale and employee relations?  The BOR had a presentation by Dr Wu and Mr Snowden on employee morale recently   How about a plan for recruitment of students?  We hear TSU may be as low as 5000 total students!   How about our 5%-10% budget cut from Austin? Will there be a realignment/consolidation or merger of some schools?   And who will be our next Provost?   Congratulations again to our new President and to the First Family.  We wish you a lot of luck this coming year and …..Welcome to TSU! 

Seems that the rumors of the Provost resignation are true, albeit that he is scheduled to have his last day in office on June 30, 2021.   It seems odd, but will the Board be providing the Provost with a "Golden Parachute" in exchange for his resignation?  Perhaps so.  On the Board agenda, we see that the Provost has been approved for tenure (perhaps a re-negotiated contract to keep his Provost salary even after he leaves the position?) scheduled to be voted on at the BOR meeting.  Yet there are curious questions to be raised- https://meetings.boardbook.org/Public/Agenda/2066?meeting=471966 1) Tenure and promotion final decisions are to be made at the August Board meeting- why is the Provost having his tenure decision made at this meeting ?  Is the Provost getting some type of special privilege or favortism, in essence jumping ahead of other faculty waiting for their T&P decisions?   2) Why not complete all the other T&P decisions for the other faculty at the same meet

Some time ago we reported on a Faculty Senate HR survey ongoing.  It seems that yet another survey has been sent out to faculty at TSU in the past week.     https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2021/01/faculty-senate-hr-survey-ongoing.html We hope the Faculty Senate can use the results to bring about positive and much needed changes in HR especially with our new incoming President. 

  EXTREMELY STRONG RUMORS suggest that Provost Harris has resigned effective today.  Stay tuned for who will be his replacement.....perhaps one of the individuals below will be announced on Monday?   https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2020/05/vote-who-should-be-next-provost-of-tsu.html