The reason why staff growth was greater than enrollment was because the place was understaffed right from the beginning. Staffing levels were just getting caught up to the same as most Universities in Canada per student population. Kind of like how they are just now getting around to building a gym !

The reason the staff growth was greater than enrolment is because they continued to hire staff, and enrolments either dropped or remained static. Some classes had between one and five students. In any event they are now in a downsizing mode which was long overdue, and unless they can get their student numbers up this University has **peaked**

Blah, blah, blah!
What do you think the learned Dr. is going to say? "Things are not so good????"
Better to blow some smoke in our ears. Cheap spin!
The university and enrollment is going to be the least of our worries in Prince George.
Can you imagine the cost to have a professor holding a class with ONE student?
There will never be enough money to support this type of system.
Methinks Jado left at the right time!
Verdict--"not guilty."

S.O.S. UNBC

I think UNBC's board did a serious mistake in not hiring Dr Max Blaux instead of hiring the present president. UNBC suffers from serious cases of mis-managment and discrimination especially in UNBC college of of science and managment (CSAM). Max knew about all these and the other problems in UNBC. He seems a bit arrogant or proud in first contact, but he has very strong contacts with research organizations and other universities.

The new president is kind of lost right now and relies blindly on the advice and instructions of the VP Dr Howard Brunt who has a disappointing record in UNBC. The problem with Brunt is that he jumps into conclusion and once he has made his mind, he rarely corrects course despite any evidence to contrary. Hey, sailor a cliff is out there ....

Brunt is ready to overlook serious violations by college deans and goes to the extreme of covering up abuses in UNBC to protect them (e.g. hiring discrimination in Physics), not realising that the authority of the deans, program chairs and himself is based on law and agreed upon regulations and the law has priority over a dean or program chair who violates it.

And things are getting worse than under Jego. I won't be surprised that UNBC loses 20% of enrolments over the next 5 years. This university is like a ship in a storm with a number of drunk people administrating it. SOS UNBC.

Nowicki. I cant speak for the rest of your post, but based on the last 5 years, and on the demographics of North Central BC, decreased enrolment in Schools, decreased graduates from high schools, and little or no change in the population, I would have to agree that their will be a decrease in enrolments at UNBC.

I dont know what impact the Teaching and Learning Centre will have on enrolments, but I suggest that the Northern Sport Centre will have little or not effect.

Palopu I can't see where you get your numbers from for your 1-5 students per class claim. I think you made that up. The classes I have attended all had between 40 and 150 students per class. I have yet to attend a class that was not sold out. I realize the ism courses where experiencing declining enrolment and were axed as a result, but I don't think even those classes were at the levels you claim. The class would simply be cancelled if it had that kind of enrolment.

As for Nowicki, I think that person is wrong about their assessment of the new president. The rest of the rant has merit to it though and is something that I think this new president will have to address as he becomes more familiar with his new job. Obviously some, Deans’ and instructors should be rotated out as they got in with a young university and are not quite up to the standard.

"The problem with Brunt is that he jumps into conclusion and once he has made his mind, he rarely corrects course despite any evidence to contrary."

Hmmmm ... he is the guy who is heading up the Mayor's Air Quality Task Force. Not a good characteristic of an individual who is supposed ot give an objective report AFTER listening to all parties concerned.

I think UNBC is an asset to the community. However, I feel that there are too many in this community who appear to be in awe of those teaching at the UNBC. It is time more of us understood that these are just ordinary folks doing an ordinary job. Just as with any ordinary job position, there are those who do extremely well and those who do extremely poorly. University profs, administrators and janitors are no different.

I think we would have been better off paying someone to do the job of heading up the task force and asking for people to put in proposals.

Chandermando. Information I got was also from a student. The number one was my number the number 5 was his. You are in a better postion to comment on class size than I am, however I suggest that there might be a significant difference between part time students attending various classes and Graduate students attending classes, in any event the numbers for some classes were low enough to have the classes cancelled, however this was done later rather than sooner.

Much like the school district a number of years ago that had a large number of classes with very few students. They managed to keep the classes going much longer than necessary. To me it is more about employment that it is about education, however I could be wrong.

Jego had people like Max Blaux in Research to improve the portfolio of research in UNBC 600% in 10 years. Now he is gone to become president of Wilfrid Laurier university which was established in 1911. The same thing can be said about graduate studies in UNBC with more than 600% times improvement in 4 years. The person in charge is reportedly being replaced by Cozzetto. So what Cozzetto is saying about research/graduate studies may go down the tube in the coming years too.

The new president Cozzetto is losing those people in administration whose performance was very good or excellent and keeping those whose performance was not satisfactory, sometimes very bad (in terms of numbers). Why?

For example how many grievances have been filed against Dean McGill in last 2 years? 30 or more? How many this year so far? 5? And his enrolment numbers in the college are flat for last 5 years. You don't keep someone with 0% improvement and 15 grievances per year and remove someone with 600% times improvement and no grievances in his record. This is the real catasroph in UNBC.

Cozzetto must start rewarding those people with good performance and replace those with bad performance with new ones very fast, so that people start improving their performance and this will improve the overall performance of UNBC. This is the very very basic thing in managment of human resources. Evaluation based on performance has been replaced by evaluation based on politics and friendship. It is like marking your students based on how much they are friendly towards you rather than what was their overall performance in exams.

Therefore, I say Cozzetto is not leaving a very good first impression (because of the above) and failing to form his own judgment independent of his VP Dr Brunt by looking into troubles and issues raised in UNBC.

He needs to change course very fast, before good people start jumping his ship.
Hey, sailor a cliff is out there ....

What grievances were filed against McGill? How come students never ever hears news about that in UNBC (unless you're chummy with a faculty member or one of the Admin bldg staff)?

What grievances were filed against McGill? How come students never ever hears news about that in UNBC (unless you're chummy with a faculty member or one of the Admin bldg staff)?

This is weird. My message got posted twice. What's even weirder is it's just 12:43 p.m. right now (while I'm typing this) and yet the time stamp on the duplicate message is 12:53 p.m.
???????

There is a divide between the student body and faculty in a university and there is a divide between faculty and administration in a university which is filled by the faculty association.

The grievances against Dean McGill are fully documented by the faculty association in UNBC and all of these have been reported to the VP Dr Brunt to deal with. Dr Brunt is supposed to deal with these grievances otherwise the faculty association has the option to go into legal battle with university and the public will become aware of the abuse and wrong doings.

Dr Brunt is not doing his job, otherwise the grievances against Dr McGill would not have continued for 3 years. Now if Dr Cozzetto wants to start in UNBC in a good footing, he needs to hold accountable the VP Brunt and Dean McGill for their actions. Instead of being a passive manager, Cozzetto needs to stand up for UNBC interests and tell the VP and Deans that you guys need to do your job right, there is a new boss in town.

I gave an example of this in discrimination in hiring in Physics program in UNBC. If this discrimination has happened in another university, the program chair of Physics, the responsible Dean Dr McGill would have been fired for it by the VP. What role Dr Brunt played in covering up this discrimination and abuse instead of instructing Dean McGill to reverse the discrimination?

Dr Cozzetto can ask this simple question from Dr Brunt. Cannot he? There was a grievance filed by the candidate who should have been hired.

The day we hear Dr McGill has been suspended pending an investigation into his misconduct, then we know that UNBC's ship is changing course and is not heading towards the cliff.

Hey, sailor a cliff is out there ....

I just talked to a friend about a bizarre
accident that happened in UNBC last week and faculty are talking about. Last week in the cafeteria of UNBC a professor insults another yelling "fucking .... ". The irony is that the guy saying the F word is no one but the grievance officer of the faculty association in UNBC! I will dig into the story.