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in The Biology Files
A plant pundit comments on plants, the foibles and fun of academic life, and other things of interest.
Narrow-minded, short-sighted university administrators
One is tempted to ask, "Are there any other kind?" Actually, yes, for which TPP is most grateful for his. But admini-minds at the Univ. of Louisiana, Monroe, are the worst kind. Biologists were given 48 hrs to solve an insoluble problem of where to relocate their natural history museum to, and of course no justification for keeping it was going to be accepted. According to their web page, these admini-minds could "find no value in the collections and no value of
the collections to the university." "The College was given 48 hours to suggest an
alternate location for the collections so that Brown Stadium can be renovated
for the track team." In this case the collections involve 5 million fish specimens, a very major collection, and over 500,000 plant herbarium specimens. That's pretty close to 10 time the size of TPP's herbarium. The stoopid arrogance of such admini-minds is astounding. We cannot image a use or find a value to having such collections, so they must be junk, and if not relocated the collections will simply be trashed!!! Yes, decades of biologists efforts, irreplaceable data and specimens, and out it all goes unless the biologists can find a home for them, elsewhere! Naturally another use for the land has been found, the very valuable track team. The ignorance of such admini-minds is boundless. And a 48 hrs deadline is just infuriating; clearly no solution was wanted. You think climate change may affect Louisiana and the distribution of fish and plants as a result? No value to historical records at all. Sad!
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The set of tasks that administrators perform (organizing, scheduling, report writing, staff meetings, office politics, recruiting, etc. etc.) are not work for a first rate mind. For that reason the best people seldom go into administration. The whole command hierarchy structure is flawed. www.robert-w-jones.com
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