When it comes to mental health services on CT college campuses, “There’s a very large discrepancy between the haves and the have-nots.”
Southern Connecticut State University
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CT prof on CSCU’s Ojakian: Scorched earth, not warm feelings
The Mirror’s recent article on CSCU President Mark Ojakian portrayed him as a good listener, a mediator, a reasonable man, and a really nice guy. But the warm feelings engendered by the Mirror’s puff piece should not be allowed to obscure the fact that the contract proposals put forward by his Board of Regents are nothing short of a scorched-earth attack on the faculty of Connecticut’s four state universities and the students they serve.
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Two tiers in Connecticut higher ed: UConn and everyone else
I have the hard-earned privilege of being a professor at Southern Connecticut State University — a major regional educational institution whose research and teaching provide an immediate and enduring benefit to New Haven and the whole state. I am proud of my students, colleagues, and school; at the same time, I am disappointed with system politics and Connecticut’s willingness to construct a two-tiered system for its students in higher education: The University of Connecticut and everyone else.
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Online courses poor substitute for faculty at Connecticut state universities
More online instruction is a poor replacement for college classes staffed by caring faculty members. If that’s what it has in mind, Connecticut’s Board of Regents for Higher Education should rethink its plan for transforming the Connecticut State College and University system.