university keeps fucking with students
the university's exploitation of students continues to intensify, with changes coming so quickly and suddenly that it's hard to keep up. new things i heard yesterday include:
registered student organizations (RSOs) will start being charged for using audiovisual equipment for events. it's expected that they will start being charged for use of space as well, even as room capacities shrink. this is in buildings - the campus center and student union building - that were built with student money, not taxpayer money. meanwhile, the office of ALANA affairs, confined to a cramped office that can't support the kind of staff it requires, has been told by the administration that it no longer has access to the suffolk room, which it has been using as a meeting space.
on the personnel front, the student activities office is being gutted. the number of professional staff advising RSOs will shrink from an already overworked 5 to 3. what's more, RSO's have been randomly reassigned to advisors, with two effects. first, longtime relationships between RSOs and their advisors have been severed; second, advisors can no longer specialize, as they had in the past, in different sorts of RSOs - cultural, political, religious, recreational, etc.
part of the reduction of staff involves a request for one staff member to voluntarily transfer from student activities to enrollment services, with the indication that if nobody transfers voluntarily, there will be a forced transfer. this would be illegal treatment of professional staff, but of course gargano and his crooked bosses don't give a fuck about the law. nor do they care about promises - in june, student activities staff were told that nobody will be transferred out of that office.
registered student organizations (RSOs) will start being charged for using audiovisual equipment for events. it's expected that they will start being charged for use of space as well, even as room capacities shrink. this is in buildings - the campus center and student union building - that were built with student money, not taxpayer money. meanwhile, the office of ALANA affairs, confined to a cramped office that can't support the kind of staff it requires, has been told by the administration that it no longer has access to the suffolk room, which it has been using as a meeting space.
on the personnel front, the student activities office is being gutted. the number of professional staff advising RSOs will shrink from an already overworked 5 to 3. what's more, RSO's have been randomly reassigned to advisors, with two effects. first, longtime relationships between RSOs and their advisors have been severed; second, advisors can no longer specialize, as they had in the past, in different sorts of RSOs - cultural, political, religious, recreational, etc.
part of the reduction of staff involves a request for one staff member to voluntarily transfer from student activities to enrollment services, with the indication that if nobody transfers voluntarily, there will be a forced transfer. this would be illegal treatment of professional staff, but of course gargano and his crooked bosses don't give a fuck about the law. nor do they care about promises - in june, student activities staff were told that nobody will be transferred out of that office.
posted by Uri at 11:04 AM
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