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TexasTowelie

(111,292 posts)
Wed Dec 13, 2017, 07:33 PM Dec 2017

University of Montana's program "prioritization" goes off the rails

Faculty groups of seemingly all stripes are questioning the legitimacy of the controversial prioritization process used to rank University of Montana programs as interim President Sheila Stearns prepares to decide what to cut and what to punt to her successor during her final few weeks in office.

The process, conducted on an expedited timeline, prompted members of the administration and the campus task force in charge of prioritization to acknowledge its limitations at the outset. In recent days, however, task force members have doubted whether the effort has achieved even its most modest ambitions. Other critics are hinting at a legal challenge that, if successful, would invalidate the entire eight-month process.

The task force’s final report all but called the process a failure, stating that its design prevented members from locating “the most basic of inefficiencies or opportunities to restructure existing programs in ways that make our university more cost effective and dynamic.”

In the eyes of Paul Haber, task force member and University Faculty Association president, the findings, which placed 400-plus programs into ranked categories, are not reliable enough to prescribe lasting budget decisions.

Read more: http://missoulanews.com/news/um-s-program-prioritization-goes-off-the-rails/article_2874562c-dadb-11e7-bc9b-83822f33bd6b.html

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University of Montana's program "prioritization" goes off the rails (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2017 OP
Ranking professors by "efficiency"? LisaM Dec 2017 #1

LisaM

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1. Ranking professors by "efficiency"?
Wed Dec 13, 2017, 07:35 PM
Dec 2017

Yikes. Many of my best professors seemed barely organized, yet I learned an awful lot from those people.

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