He has never shown he knows how to do it, but Missouri Southern State University President Bruce Speck is the co-editor of a newly-published book on fundraising.
In addition to his editing responsibilities, Speck wrote the first chapter of Perspectives on Fundraising entitled "The Growing Role of Private Giving in Financing the Modern University."In his chapter, Speck notes that without tenure faculty would have to take a more realistic view which would bring about "a greater focus on teamwork and the corporate good."
The tenure part comes up in relation to the extra money Speck says it costs to have tenure. Faculty at Missouri Southern will not be surprised to know that Speck has written those words.
Having Speck classified as some kind of an expert in fundraising might surprise the people at the university, however. Speck was brought in, as you may recall, as the only candidate actually interviewed for the post, and supposedly one major reason he was hired was because of his expertise in fundraising.
That expertise apparently left him after he arrived. From that point on, everyone who was hired for any post at the university was brought in because of some kind of skill at fundraising.
In a letter written by Speck last year, he described his vision. Though he was brought in as a fundraising wizard, his idea of raising funds apparently was to bring in other people who could raise funds:
Second I have articulated components of a vision. In particular, I have talked about MSSU being an entrepreneurial campus regarding fundraising. In my efforts to make that vision a reality, I have found a learned helplessness that has caused me to revise the vision to include significant training in how departments can reach out to the community. When the VP for development arrives in November, I will continue my discussions with him about organizing training sessions so that departments understand what it means to be entrepreneurial in fundraising.
As I wrote before, Speck has not shown he could raise money with a forklift and two automatic weapons.
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this man is a riot!
Sorry, Southern
After the way Missouri Southern has treated people who work there - firing and forcing into retirement anyone who makes above a certain wage, and making all the rest who have tenure squirm -- plus the reduction of benefits and erosion of any good feeling a person had about his/her job, I wouldn't give them a dime. So they can talk about fundraising all they want -- but they are not getting any of my money. Any other college in the area would be a better bet for anyone's money. What they should do is just close the school down and turn it into a prison.
In his chapter, Speck takes an indirect shot at Dr. Peter Johnstone, who was a finalist for the Vice President for Academic Affairs position at MSSU in November. Speck writes: "I recently heard a candidate for an academic administrative job say, 'A president's role is to bring in the money; a provost's role is to spend the money.' Of course, such a view is naive at best, and dangerously misleading at worst, as if a provost controlled the entire university budget."
Speck completely missed the point Johnstone was trying to make during his interview at MSSU. The university president should spend the majority of his time out raising money, rather than staying on campus and micro-managing the university's daily affairs. Speck seldom leaves the campus, and as a result has raised nothing and alienated all the faculty along the way.
Apparently, this pissed off the folks at Southernwatch. Guess who is back on the interweb?
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bring on the hate! anything to bring on the hate since the haters can't find more postive things to do...
how very, very sad and for all you second guessers, I have never laid eyes on the president of the school so you don't need to start calling me his friend of a friend of D. Douglas...
just really turned off by the hate....and happy the new leader of the faculty seems to have some sense and self control...
Signed: a graduate of the school
Bruce Speck overturned the decision of the Tenure and Promotion committee to deny the new faculty senate president's application for tenure. Rather than earning tenure, Speck gave it to her. Perhaps that accounts for her support of Speck's policies, which, ironically, include a rejection of tenure. There is no integerity in MSSU's president.
he complains about faculty tenure in his b ook but he has no qualms in oveturning the negative tenure decison for the new faculty senate president.
The denial was from a faculty academic committe that deemed her not worthy at this time of tenure, but Bruce overturned the decision and gave her tenure anyway...
Wonder why?
the man has no shame...
anonymous 10:24...
Isn't it obvious why the decision was overturned? Will the Faculty Senate demand a resignation? Perhaps stepping down at the first meeting would be a wise decision. In the "corporate world" this would be called a conflict of interest. The leadership at this university plays by "corporate rules" when it serves them well and skirts them it does not.
You're not serious, are you? Bring on the hate? You equate criticism with hate? Do you really believe Speck is above criticism? That and the fact that you think you know enough to praise the new faculty senate president shows you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
"As I wrote before, Speck has not shown he could raise money with a forklift and two automatic weapons."
Another example of Turner taking cheap shots at people from behind a computer even though he states that he doesn't. This is why people think he is a joke. Looking at the recent release of MAP scores, I see that you continue to do damage to the students in the Joplin school system. Your MS Comm Arts scores are still awful as stated many times in the past by current administration.
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