It's not the IT people who are tenured. It's very often the Dean's,
Asst. Deans, Dept. Chairs, Research Directors etc. and they control the
budgets, hiring, staffing and direct the IT Managers.
And smart the are! ... but diddly they really know about IT in the real
world ! :)
As a student, besides being a young inexperienced very junior tech at
that time without the experienced professional vision you have now, you
just weren't exposed to the level where the problems that were being
discussed / complained about earlier in this string, originate from and
are handled.
db.
Tom Piwowar wrote:
You are being naive Tom.
As a past major university computing specialist I can tell you that
isn't so.
I was much involved in IT management issues when I a grad student was at
Penn. I was also one of those 20-hours a week students as an undergrad
and my son worked IT support for 20 hours a week at William and Mary. So
I'm not unfamiliar with the issues. I have never heard of a university
where the IT manager had a tenured position. I know bad management when I
see it.
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