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[School] University of Massachusetts Boston [Issue and Date] The current administration is so oppressive and the department so disorganized that we're losing people. We now rely on a 2/3 non-tenure-track faculty to teach our undergraduate program. But for the occasional gesture, we treat them as an invisible, inferior servant class who should keep quiet and know their place. I've seen it. This is, structurally, increasingly an apartheid-like situation, and I am morally appalled. The official administrative line is always a sunny "Let's move forward," but the cliche is true: doing things the same way and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. [posted March 2012] [moved from "Old Issues"]: Nice people, but had they never run a search before? Seemed disorganized. The audience for my job talk was composed only of the members of the search committee. Administrators repeatedly emphasized that it is a time of "growth" for the university to the point that it set off alarm bells in my head. [Feb 2012] May I say that, as a faculty member observing the most recent English searches, I was terribly embarrassed at the conditions in which the finalists for the searches had to speak. During one candidate's visit, construction was causing large metal objects to fall right outside the window next to which the candidate was speaking. Another candidate was continuously serenaded by jackhammers and power drills throughout his talk. And, no, that construction is not the sign of university "growth," but of a desperate attempt to repair a building that was constructed with substandard concrete (the graft involved sent state legislators to jail) and whose roof has blown off more than once, and whose ceilings flood with regularity. [Department] 
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