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The Orange County Register, Letters To The Editor, Sept 19, 07

September 19, 2007 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

The Orange County Register Letters To The Editor, dated September 19, 2007, page Local 9, titled “UCI caves in Law school dean rehired”, and main point of this article is that the UCI chancellor caved in by reneging on his pulling back the offer of hiring Erwin Chemerinsky thus including another power liberal into the environment. This piece was well voicing of a passionate conservative viewpoint. Reading some of the sentences caused me to think that this person is drawing…

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Chemerinsky is rehired as the new dean of Irvine campus law school.

September 18, 2007 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

In the LA Times, September 18, 2007, issue it was reported that Mr. Chemerinsky was rehired as the UC Irvine campus dean of the new law school. Now that the Irvine campus train is back on track from a derail, let us examine some of the possible views of what did take place and what will take place if Machiavelli was still alive to report to us. Mr. Chemerinsky can ask for more money or any other perk he wishes…

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Law deans and their involvement in advocacy.

September 17, 2007 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

I would like to comment about an article found in the LA Times, California section, September 16, 2007. The article is found on the front page of that section of the newspaper. The article is titled “Law deans differ on ethics of advocacy”. In the article the reporters interviewed a number of high profile law deans to gain any consensus at to what degree a dean of a law school should become involved in exposing and promoting a viewpoint. The…

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Chemerinsky might be rehired.

September 16, 2007 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

September 16, 2007 I finally got to read the Saturday LA Times, a day late, Septermber 16, 2007. It was reported on page one that UCU was “… reportedly working on deal to rehire Chemerinsky”. This is obviously good news for those who value a better life, a better environment, for southern California. The report goes on to reveal that the conservatives allegedly did indeed lead the movement against Chemerinsky and allegedly, more specifically, Republican political figures in California politics….

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UCI drops Erwin Chemerinsky. Follow up thoughts.

September 14, 2007 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

After reading news reports in the LA Times, Friday, September 14, 2007, edition, and listening to NPR local radio reports my viewpoint has not changed much except for the following thoughts. Some reports point to the possibility that the Irvine campus chancellor was pressured by some powerful political types to rescind the appointment of Erwin Chemerinsky. If this is true, then what about Mr. Chemerinsky offends those allegedly political types? Obviously, it is the fact that he is a liberal….

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UC Irvine rescinds appointment of Erwin Chemerinsky.

September 13, 2007 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

In today’s newspaper (LA Times, Thursday, September 13, 2007) there is an article revealing the withdrawal of Erwin Chemerinsky as being the new dean of the Irvine campus law school. This is a most unfortunate development for all concerned. So why did this happen, why this turn around? Lets itemize who looses and who gains. The Irvine campus has been in the news for one campus problem after another. This campus needs to settle down and get it right for…

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Stephanie’s viewpoint.

September 2, 2007 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

September 2, 2007 Having dinner at Macaroni Grill today, my wife and I met up with a server named Stephanie. I thought she was a student and she said she was when asked. This began a long running conversation between her serving duties as to her education at a junior college and transfer to a state college, CSUF. She was unhappy with some of the aspects of both experiences at her former junior college and at the state university. Here…

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Suggestions for Reforming State College and Universities.

July 16, 2007 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

Exit interviews should be required for every staff member that leaves a college or university for any reason. The Sovereign power of the state, the people, owns the company, the college and university. The Sovereign power has final decision making for performance issues. It makes sense to require this check for performance. All exit interviews should be made public. The people of the state own the college and university. One could equate the people’s interests in their institutions much like…

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Doctorate Degree

July 16, 2007 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

The word doctor comes from Latin and means “teacher”. The title was used as a qualification to teach at universities. One of the earliest universities was the University of Constantinople, 849, considered to be constituted in a form that might be considered to look to be close to what universities are today. In Ernest Volkman’s book, Science Goes To War, the author describes how Kaiser Wilhelm, (about 1911), helped toward building a premier science community within Germany to move that…

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University with junk yard “art”, broken “statue” and sunken boat.

June 20, 2007 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

Here is a profile of a state university where, allegedly, enrollment is preeminent. Overall, this university, allegedly, has a suspiciously low staff to customer ratio but this apparently does not show itself to the customer. This is remarkable as there is, allegedly no upward communication mechanisms existing on this campus except through the approved management tree. Here are some examples of missing communication opportunities: No exit interviews when exiting this institution. No ombudsman to hear complaints and resolve conflicts. No…

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