Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Mathur's low, low road

This video provides an overview of the Sept. 22 board meeting (aside from the 40th Anniversary stuff).

The ending is pretty special. Mathur takes the low road. It's classic!

Click on the button in the middle!


My favorite part: Fuentes announces that Mathur will offer "ethics training" to other districts! (2:18)

ETHICS TRAINING?!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Williams' show-and-tell is pretty amusing. Mathur's slighting of faculty on the Accred group is infuriating.

Anonymous said...

Mathur is unbelievable. No wonder morale is lower than a barefoot rattlesnake.

Anonymous said...

That genuine, spontaneous, and yet somehow resigned laughter at 2:50 says more than any accreditation report possibly could about the source of our problems.

Re: the "labor of love": The trustees ARE paid, Chancellor. And they get a few nice pay items those hard-working faculty members on the accreditation team won't get, like lifetime medical benefits. Maybe we need an OC Register article about what the trustees' compensation is.

Re: John Williams: He, at least, loves the place. For all the disagreements in policy I've ever had with him, I've never doubted that.

It was the famous Bill Holston who was called into the President's Office for loosening his tie on a particularly hot day. Bill removed his tie immediately and dared them to fire him for it. That was the end of faculty ties for everybody. I miss Bill, and so do about 1,000 students a year!

Anonymous said...

Hello!

Oh yes, the great memories of the legendary Bill Holston. He has got to be one of my favorite teachers of all time, & alas when he retired he also sold his yogurt shop (I think in Laguna Hills), & supposedly went traveling. He really turned me on to History along with Bill Phillips (may the good bloke rest in peace). Teaching us all of the little tid bits of history that nobody knew about which he got through a book called something like ".....Of Ordinary Things." Bill loved his job & made a lot of his students pretty much worship at his feet. As far as I'm concerned both he & Phillips were the best of the best that Saddleback College had to offer. IMO it is sooo Bill Holston to stand up to the president & tell them that he dared them to fire him fully knowing that he had to be one of the more popular teachers on the campus. So glad tht b/c of him you all didn't have to wear those stuff ties any longer. While sure, some people enjoyed wearing them, but there shouldn't be a dress code, especially when the weather is just too warm out.:-)

Anonymous said...

I just know that when I was a student at Saddleback I took just about every class that Bill Holston taught just b/c he was teaching it. He just loved his job, and so he was a great teacher & so his students enjoyed attending his classes, including me. Believe me, there would have been hell to pay if the president of the college at the time had fired him. My sister became a History major b/c of him. Well, I suppose he had to retire sometime.

Anonymous said...

Ethics by Raghu. I've been thinking about it, and there's obviously an opportunity here for a whole portfolio of similar classes. If the faculty I suggest could be dug up (only one is possibly still alive) we could create a Masters of Undertaking Leadership in College Hierarchies (MULCH):

Keeping the Boss Happy
- St. Thomas More

Data Management
- Werner Heisenberg

Resumes That Work
- Niccolo Macchiavelli

Team Building
- John Brown

Inspiring Loyalty
- Marie Antoinette

Planning and Development
- Douglas Corrigan

Solving Conflicts the "Win-Win" Way
- Salvatore (Charlie) Luciano

Innovation and Technology
- Ned Ludd

Budget and Finance
- Ananais

Thinking Outside the Box
- Schrodinger's cat

At 3 units each, with Raghu's ethics course, that would make a full year's work, providing great background for the next SOCCCD administrator.

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