Non-redacted Dickinson State survey released
January 1, 2013 at 3:01 pm in Grand Forks Herald
Dickinson State University and North Dakota University System officials have released in full an employee comments section of the 2012 DSU Campus Quality Survey following an open records request by The Forum News Service in late December. Continue Reading
There is a difference between having a robust debate and personal attacks. I would like to use the recent thread on Valley Dairy as an example. A fellow blogger referred to the woman who is currently operating this local chain of small stores as arrogant, full of herself, and snobby. The comment didn’t pertain to the topic which was the growth of Valley Dairy. I got the impression this was the blogger’s chance to “get back at” this woman. I thought it was beyond petty. Thankfully my fellow bloggers buried this person’s comment. I’m proud of them for doing so.
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….and bringing all this up again here did exactly what insofar as keeping the personal attack buried?
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To make the point that most bloggers don’t like negative energy.
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There STILL has not been one arrest of DU staff involved in the Charmin Diploma Debacle.
There STILL has not been one firing of DU staff who knew about the fraud, but said nothing.
CLEAN HOUSE AT DU.
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Its an educational instituition. Nobody is held accountable.
Even though hundreds of thousands of small children, will be psychologically scared their entire life. Even though millions of taxpayers hard earned money was squandered. We all learned.
That is the typical response from the educational establishement, when they mess things up.
The best thing is for people to boycott the University. Donors/alumni stop donations. Potential students go elsewhere.
The people that did this fraud knew what they were doing. Certain employees could have sent anonymous complaints to the appropriate state officials, to tip off the scam.
Its past due to start cleaning house at that corrupt instituition.
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Its an educational instituition. Nobody is held accountable.
The lack of accountability has nothing to do with the fact it’s an educational institution. Almost any work system has the dynamics operating that have the potential to have what happened at Dickinson, happen. There was a person who stepped down from his position and one who committed suicide. We – on the outside of that system – can’t really know all that has happened, including IF there were in fact, anonymous notes.
What needs to be examined (and ultimately changed) is what it is about our systems that enable, even encourage, what happened at Dickinson. That’s no easy solution as most of us are conditioned by our authoritarian, hierarchical work systems – systems that ‘say’ they have an “open door” but anyone who has walked through that proverbial “open door” of Human Resources to try to address an issue knows darn well that that office is there to protect the system or certain ‘power’ structures in the system and NOT look out for the rights of individual employees. I don’t care what the issue is. For example, if the current Dickinson ‘power’ system would like the current HR head to leave, they can use the negativity (including the anonymous personal attacks) to push some agendas. Otherwise, that power structure will likely protect the HR head or leave her on her own. Just depends.
Colleges are systems that blatantly allow workplace bullying/abuse.
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The structure of universities has not changed since they were formed in the Middle Ages. They continue to be hierarchical, a reflection of the feudal period in which they were born. Like secular and ecclesiastical ssytems, they are top-down in decision making, with administrators making unilateral and often inane decisions. But their authority is never to be questioned. The charming myth of faculty governance is just that.
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