<p>[Embattled</a> engineering dean to step down - @Press](<a href=“http://media.www.studlife.com/media/storage/paper337/news/2008/02/26/press/Embattled.Engineering.Dean.To.Step.Down-3235688.shtml]Embattled”>http://media.www.studlife.com/media/storage/paper337/news/2008/02/26/press/Embattled.Engineering.Dean.To.Step.Down-3235688.shtml)</p>
<p>I heard it was really bad. My friends mom is a grad student there and she says it’s horrible.</p>
<p>I didn’t know it was this bad. Ouch.</p>
<p>I think the main problem with her was her pushiness to impose her ideas without listening to everybody else. She believed aerospace wasn’t necessary making this way her own changes in mechanical engineering feeding anger in the department.</p>
<p>Sounds not dissimilar to the Lawrence Summers meltdown at Harvard: a very bright, forceful administrator, lacking skills in building consensus, imposing his/her will on an organization that rebels.</p>
<p>The article in the Riverfront Times is somewhat shallow in its explanation of the why and how. Major changes in an established large institution are guaranteed to create anger and resentment in factions.</p>
<p>I’ll be watching closely to see how the current administration handles this.</p>