[82lsju]

I think mr Cavelli is way off
But don’t care enough anymore.

We added many women’s sports.  We build great facilities that have to be maintained

If those who care now and are grads should have pointed this out strongly before now after the fact.

I'm not sure he's way off, but his comments apply to the University as a whole as well

- significant upgrades in facilities, I graduated in '82 and the new chemical engineering building (opened ~5 years ago) is so much better than the old one, I'm sure it enables much better work, it is also more expensive and probably part of the "engineering school arms race", would the department be "better off" in the old building....no, would the old building make it harder to recruit faculty and grad students...yes.  The facilities arms race seems to be mostly in athletics and the sciences as I'm not sure the english dept (or many "fuzzy studies" departments) have seen a similar ramp in cost of facilities/infrastructure/OPEX

- organizational inefficiency/bloat, this pretty much happens in all orgs over time, and I'm sure it has happened in the AD, the University at large, and even the chemical engineering dept.  It is easy for this to happen when times are good and money flows freely, in downtimes not so much.  

If the good times go on long enough when there is a retrenchment the cuts are harsh, at least they have been where I have worked, and that's what I think we're seeing now in the AD.  The good times were not going to last forever and "management" needed to plan for when they were not, of course management may not have really be in for the long run given the average time in place for management so planning for a "rainy day" might not have be popular path to follow.......

[82lsju]

I think mr Cavelli is way off
But don’t care enough anymore.

We added many women’s sports.  We build great facilities that have to be maintained

If those who care now and are grads should have pointed this out strongly before now after the fact.

I'm not sure he's way off, but his comments apply to the University as a whole as well

- significant upgrades in facilities, I graduated in '82 and the new chemical engineering building (opened ~5 years ago) is so much better than the old one, I'm sure it enables much better work, it is also more expensive and probably part of the "engineering school arms race", would the department be "better off" in the old building....no, would the old building make it harder to recruit faculty and grad students...yes.  The facilities arms race seems to be mostly in athletics and the sciences as I'm not sure the english dept (or many "fuzzy studies" departments) have seen a similar ramp in cost of facilities/infrastructure/OPEX

- organizational inefficiency/bloat, this pretty much happens in all orgs over time, and I'm sure it has happened in the AD, the University at large, and even the chemical engineering dept.  It is easy for this to happen when times are good and money flows freely, in downtimes not so much.  

If the good times go on long enough when there is a retrenchment the cuts are harsh, at least they have been where I have worked, and that's what I think we're seeing now in the AD.  The good times were not going to last forever and "management" needed to plan for when they were not, of course management may not have really be in for the long run given the average time in place for management so planning for a "rainy day" might not have be popular path to follow.......