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Article #1902Culture of CWRU Re: President Auston resigns
From: John D. Giorgis
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 03:13
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 03:13
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Dan Alt <dan@prozac.eeap.cwru.edu> wrote in article <9cmqpm$mv7$2@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu>... > It's not the indivudal administrators either, any more than it is te > individual faculty. It's the CULTURE. No one administrator feels pressure > to do an exceptional job, because they see that most of the other > ones aren't doing so either. > Even people who have a genuine work ethic aren't going to be > motivated to rise too far above the general level, because they won't > percieve that as being expected of them. So we have a self-perpetuating > culture of mediocracy. > That goes for faculty, staff, administration, and students. I disagree STRONGLY with that. At least as far as the students go....... there was a strong culture of excellence. There was a strong push to get A's, and A's were not always very easy. Anyhow, in comparison to people I know at universities of a lessor reputation, hell in comparison to the US Federal Government - CWRU definitely has a culture of excellence, at least among its students. JDG
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 101fa9,654271d41c8c1c7c X-Google-Attributes: gid101fa9,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-09 20:20:35 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!bignews.mediaways.net!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!usenet.INS.cwru.edu!not-for-mail From: "John D. Giorgis" <jdgiorgis@mail.com> Newsgroups: cwru.general Subject: Culture of CWRU Re: President Auston resigns Date: 10 May 2001 03:13:18 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA Lines: 24 Sender: jxg9@dialup-209.244.82.41.dial1.washington2.level3.net Message-ID: <01c0d8ff$556c60c0$2952f4d1@moldova> References: <9cclvt$a88$1@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu> <9ccmt2$ar3$1@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu> <9ccs7d$ed0$1@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu> <9cd57r$ln1$1@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu> <9cd6fp$m8t$1@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu> <9cjrrm$rkg$2@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu> <9ck0s3$2cd$1@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu> <9ckimj$isj$1@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu> <9clcgr$amd$2@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu> <9cmdv9$cde$3@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu> <9cmqpm$mv7$2@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-209.244.82.41.dial1.washington2.level3.net X-Trace: eeyore.INS.cwru.edu 989464398 10564 209.244.82.41 (10 May 2001 03:13:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@po.cwru.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 May 2001 03:13:18 GMT NNTP-Posting-User: jxg9@dialup-209.244.82.41.dial1.washington2.level3.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155