Hey WSU2:
glad to hear there are other alums plugged in. Wish there were more
I reckon we can disagree about the meaning of "faculty" here, but 6 folks who taught last year (& were quite capable and popular) won't be teaching next year. The school will replace LW dir (good luck finding someone as good), and has been having one hell of a time finding a single tenure track person who will come. As for "authorization" to replace, there's a big diff bet authorization to replace and replacing (esp at WSU, as you know), and as i mentioned before, I think Wayne has lost more than it has hired for a while, now. (Who's Litman's replacement? Bambauer? How's that working? How about Dannin's replacement? Liebowitz? If she doesn't count, then I guess there isn't one. Shouldn't Detroit's law school have a labor law prof?). Glad to hear that they are thinking of replacing the Admissions director (why did it take a year?), but they'll still be staffed far below UDM/MSU. See above for students' persistent customer service complaints. I didn't hear about any more staffing in career services or other student service depts, so i guess there won't be any. Wayne has jacked up tuition about $7K or so in the last few years for profs it can't keep in the hope of fudging its US News #s. The #s are worse than ever (thank god we made it back to TTT, tho nowhere near where we were), but students are still paying the higher freight. Sad fact: we're #3 in MI, behind MSU, and nothing is going to change that
PS: Is it true that our 1st choice Dean turned us down for MSU, and then MSU turned her down? I know the 1st 1/2 is right, but curious about the 2d
Cheers