Jonathan Beller, FT faculty
Jonathan Beller, Associate Professor, English & Humanities
I am interested in finding ways to streamline senate processes and increase the ability of the senate to fulfill its mandate, specifically, to serve the interest of the faculty, the students and the institute in creating an exemplary learning environment. In my own view the senate spends far too much time reflecting on its own process, revamping its internal structure and rehearsing its historical trauma and too little time on issues of substance such as how money is allotted and spent and what kind of institute-wide changes might usher Pratt into the 21st century. With much of the difficult organizational work already accomplished, the senate, rather than being mired in its own bureaucratic process, should address with greater imagination and focus issues that have for a long time been avoided, including financial transparency, the hiring of more teachers and scholars with specialties outside the Western canon, the creation of an endowment, and an overall upgrading and updating of Pratt.
If you would like to send a message of this kind to the senate and to the campus at large then vote for me; if not, then clearly it is in your interest to vote for someone else. :-)
I am interested in finding ways to streamline senate processes and increase the ability of the senate to fulfill its mandate, specifically, to serve the interest of the faculty, the students and the institute in creating an exemplary learning environment. In my own view the senate spends far too much time reflecting on its own process, revamping its internal structure and rehearsing its historical trauma and too little time on issues of substance such as how money is allotted and spent and what kind of institute-wide changes might usher Pratt into the 21st century. With much of the difficult organizational work already accomplished, the senate, rather than being mired in its own bureaucratic process, should address with greater imagination and focus issues that have for a long time been avoided, including financial transparency, the hiring of more teachers and scholars with specialties outside the Western canon, the creation of an endowment, and an overall upgrading and updating of Pratt.
If you would like to send a message of this kind to the senate and to the campus at large then vote for me; if not, then clearly it is in your interest to vote for someone else. :-)
1 Comments:
Jon Beller, you would have my vote if I were in your category.
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