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xiaoxue · 11-29-07, 05:04 PM

i can make some comment on this, too. in the five years i was at cal poly pomona the college of business went from a very student-oriented place to one that was so bad that they even posted signs forbidding you to stand or sit outside of classrooms! then when you went into the classrooms in bldg. 6 you sometimes had to play musical chairs because there weren't enough of them in the rooms and students then sat on the floor. we no longer got advice because the dean fired the director of the student advising center.

in that five year period four student clubs i know folded. they never were replaced. one very popular professor who advised several of those clubs resigned and he never was replaced. the new faculty said they couldn't spend time with students anymore because they had to do research instead.

in spite of all the problems i had planned to stay on for an MBA. then the new dean fired the graduate director, tons of other faculty and staff, and eliminated all of the exciting international programs as well as the off-campus centers, apparently to save money. what happened was the graduate program stopped growing and instead shrunk from over 850 students to around 150 and i knew this program was lost.

it seems that every year i was at cal poly pomona executives kept getting higher and higher six figure salary raises while student fees kept going up, apparently to pay for higher executive pay. but we never saw any improvements in classes, and almost everyone i know needed five, six, and even seven years to graduate.

friends tell me there was a near riot on campus on oct. 31, as about 500 students stormed the president's mansion (where he lives for free) and asked for more classes. he blew them off because he was late for a dinner party.

now cal poly pomona is in such a total mess that many good students like me left for other cal states and other schools, and the leadership there keeps cashing bigger and bigger checks and doing nothing for it.

this campus reorganization is supposed to save $800,000, but nobody can explain where that number came from, nor can anybody identify who decided to cut the colleges from eight to four. now i'm told that the faculty senate has refused to act on the matter because the president without a clue has offered no guidance or leadership.

wow, and he makes a quarter million a year for this? and you guys bang on me because i'm now at fullerton? students like dr. gordon and we are moving forward, not into the black hole.

11-29-07, 05:04 PM	#6 (permalink)
xiaoxue Enthusiast Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 492	i can make some comment on this, too. in the five years i was at cal poly pomona the college of business went from a very student-oriented place to one that was so bad that they even posted signs forbidding you to stand or sit outside of classrooms! then when you went into the classrooms in bldg. 6 you sometimes had to play musical chairs because there weren't enough of them in the rooms and students then sat on the floor. we no longer got advice because the dean fired the director of the student advising center. in that five year period four student clubs i know folded. they never were replaced. one very popular professor who advised several of those clubs resigned and he never was replaced. the new faculty said they couldn't spend time with students anymore because they had to do research instead. in spite of all the problems i had planned to stay on for an MBA. then the new dean fired the graduate director, tons of other faculty and staff, and eliminated all of the exciting international programs as well as the off-campus centers, apparently to save money. what happened was the graduate program stopped growing and instead shrunk from over 850 students to around 150 and i knew this program was lost. it seems that every year i was at cal poly pomona executives kept getting higher and higher six figure salary raises while student fees kept going up, apparently to pay for higher executive pay. but we never saw any improvements in classes, and almost everyone i know needed five, six, and even seven years to graduate. friends tell me there was a near riot on campus on oct. 31, as about 500 students stormed the president's mansion (where he lives for free) and asked for more classes. he blew them off because he was late for a dinner party. now cal poly pomona is in such a total mess that many good students like me left for other cal states and other schools, and the leadership there keeps cashing bigger and bigger checks and doing nothing for it. this campus reorganization is supposed to save $800,000, but nobody can explain where that number came from, nor can anybody identify who decided to cut the colleges from eight to four. now i'm told that the faculty senate has refused to act on the matter because the president without a clue has offered no guidance or leadership. wow, and he makes a quarter million a year for this? and you guys bang on me because i'm now at fullerton? students like dr. gordon and we are moving forward, not into the black hole.