🚀 go-pugleaf

John Martin <martin@fafnir.astr.cwru.edu> wrote:
: It is interesting how Barry says it's faculty.  Then Dan, who is faculty and
: knows more personally about faculty says that it is not faculty.  So I'm
: wondering if you guys had a personal relationship with an administrator
: if maybe then they would look different.  It seems to be a transference
: of blame here and we really aren't any closer to naming the evil force
: that holds us all down.

	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.

-- 
Daniel Alt    Department of Music - Case Western Reserve University

"My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us, the world
   is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require." - Edward Elgar