In one of the subcommittee meetings last week passionate arguments were given to add both a PROGRAM SPECIALIST to the FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT and a new ASST. DIRECTOR OF CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION POSITION for the HUMANITIES.
While I have a great deal of empathy for both of these areas (not only as a POET but the Chairman of the CHEMISTRY department at WV WESLEYAN{who was from MIT} taught HUMANITIES), I am concerned about the creeping expansion of the administration and the direction away from the students. I am well aware that we are getting overwhelmed with all of the accountability requirements and we are being held hostage by the numbers. That doesn't mean I have to like it or agree with it and are prevented from pointing out the educational injustice of actuaries actually hijacking purpose.
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