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Originally Posted by xiaoxue  i was looking into grad school here today, thinking that maybe i might try my hand at taking an MBA part time.
and then i discover that the college of business has lost about half its faculty! the directory in building 6 list professors in the wrong rooms, or worse yet, many who are no longer around. i was looking for dr. qi since i'm chinese and guess what? she left here in 1999! why is the directory so out of date?
where have all the faculty gone to? somebody said that even the provost is gone and they don't even have a replacement.
is cal poly a toxic waste zone or something?
think i'll look at some other school....any ideas? |
well, xiaoxue, i thought your only interest was sports. good for you for seeking a graduate degree.
i agree that our university has been on a perilous downslide. not long after i arrived on this campus in the 1980s we were ranked seventh in the west, and as i recall in one poll we actually were ranked either above or very close to our sister school at san luis. now check the current rankings. we have fallen TWENTY FIVE spots to 32d, behind chico state and even with sonoma state, two smaller schools nowhere near us a decade ago!!! how did we let this happen???
additionally, we've faced the greatest turnover of people i've seen anywhere, and when you lose so many senior people in just two or three years you are in serious trouble unless you have some great leadership, which also as you note seem to be bailing out. business faculty are leaving for other jobs or early retirement in every department, most recently a very distinguished professor of accounting who had written several books on the subject, for a college most people never had heard of.
as you say, our MBA programs are a mess. we've lost a good chunk of our size, many senior faculty with years of experience, the director of graduate programs (and now two of them in just two years), and almost all of its distinctive off campus and overseas programs. some classes are so underenrolled they must be cancelled.
i had no idea the business college directory was so grossly out of date. Dr. Mei Qi was a TOM professor from UCLA, one of our rising stars, who left many years ago.
for options what is your area of interest? and where do you want to go geographically? and what kind of budget do you have? for example, if you live south i'd recommend fullerton or long beach but i'd need more info to advise you.