The following letter to the editor appeared in today's Blade (formerly known as The Toledo Blade)..........



Upon the 10th anniversary of the UT/​MUO/​MCO merger, it’s time to thank and honor former Blade publisher Paul Block, Jr., and other visionaries whose wisdom and fortitude founded MCO, and former UT presidents Dan Johnson and Lloyd Jacobs, plus many others, who made it happen (June 13, “UT marks merger with plans for future”).

It is also time for The Blade to stop referring to UTMC as “formerly known as the Medical College of Ohio.”

DICK EASTOP

Sylvania



Thank you Dick Eastop for reminding The Blade, formerly known as the Toledo Blade, they can stop using that old, old, old reference to MCO.

(06-16-2016 09:43 AM)Rocket65 Wrote:  The following letter to the editor appeared in today's Blade (formerly known as The Toledo Blade)..........



Upon the 10th anniversary of the UT/​MUO/​MCO merger, it’s time to thank and honor former Blade publisher Paul Block, Jr., and other visionaries whose wisdom and fortitude founded MCO, and former UT presidents Dan Johnson and Lloyd Jacobs, plus many others, who made it happen (June 13, “UT marks merger with plans for future”).

It is also time for The Blade to stop referring to UTMC as “formerly known as the Medical College of Ohio.”

DICK EASTOP

Sylvania



Thank you Dick Eastop for reminding The Blade, formerly known as the Toledo Blade, they can stop using that old, old, old reference to MCO.

Agree with you about the MCO reference, but calling Lloyd Jacobs, who did his best to destroy UT, a visionary is absurd.

(06-16-2016 11:47 AM)DetroitRocket Wrote:  

(06-16-2016 09:43 AM)Rocket65 Wrote:  The following letter to the editor appeared in today's Blade (formerly known as The Toledo Blade)..........



Upon the 10th anniversary of the UT/​MUO/​MCO merger, it’s time to thank and honor former Blade publisher Paul Block, Jr., and other visionaries whose wisdom and fortitude founded MCO, and former UT presidents Dan Johnson and Lloyd Jacobs, plus many others, who made it happen (June 13, “UT marks merger with plans for future”).

It is also time for The Blade to stop referring to UTMC as “formerly known as the Medical College of Ohio.”

DICK EASTOP

Sylvania



Thank you Dick Eastop for reminding The Blade, formerly known as the Toledo Blade, they can stop using that old, old, old reference to MCO.

Agree with you about the MCO reference, but calling Lloyd Jacobs, who did his best to destroy UT, a visionary is absurd.

Destruction??? All I saw was growth........

(06-16-2016 12:25 PM)Terry Wrote:  

(06-16-2016 11:47 AM)DetroitRocket Wrote:  

(06-16-2016 09:43 AM)Rocket65 Wrote:  The following letter to the editor appeared in today's Blade (formerly known as The Toledo Blade)..........



Upon the 10th anniversary of the UT/​MUO/​MCO merger, it’s time to thank and honor former Blade publisher Paul Block, Jr., and other visionaries whose wisdom and fortitude founded MCO, and former UT presidents Dan Johnson and Lloyd Jacobs, plus many others, who made it happen (June 13, “UT marks merger with plans for future”).

It is also time for The Blade to stop referring to UTMC as “formerly known as the Medical College of Ohio.”

DICK EASTOP

Sylvania



Thank you Dick Eastop for reminding The Blade, formerly known as the Toledo Blade, they can stop using that old, old, old reference to MCO.

Agree with you about the MCO reference, but calling Lloyd Jacobs, who did his best to destroy UT, a visionary is absurd.

Destruction??? All I saw was growth........

Not to belabor this, but:

1. Jacobs promised to increase enrollment substantially, but it went down every year under his administration.

2. He was a bully, who made enemies at every level of the university.

3. He was fired.

4. He wasted huge amounts of money on his pet projects while ignoring the real economic problems. Example: renaming and reorganizing colleges that turned out to be a mess that the current president is working to undo.

5. Using Scarborough (now the fired president at Akron) to do his bidding, and we see what a mess he made at Akron.

6. Jacobs promised to raise the national profile at UT and it never happened.

....................

I was hoping this was going to be a thank you for 50,000 retweets, drat.

(06-16-2016 01:21 PM)DetroitRocket Wrote:  

(06-16-2016 12:25 PM)Terry Wrote:  

(06-16-2016 11:47 AM)DetroitRocket Wrote:  

(06-16-2016 09:43 AM)Rocket65 Wrote:  The following letter to the editor appeared in today's Blade (formerly known as The Toledo Blade)..........

Upon the 10th anniversary of the UT/​MUO/​MCO merger, it’s time to thank and honor former Blade publisher Paul Block, Jr., and other visionaries whose wisdom and fortitude founded MCO, and former UT presidents Dan Johnson and Lloyd Jacobs, plus many others, who made it happen (June 13, “UT marks merger with plans for future”).

It is also time for The Blade to stop referring to UTMC as “formerly known as the Medical College of Ohio.”

DICK EASTOP

Sylvania

Thank you Dick Eastop for reminding The Blade, formerly known as the Toledo Blade, they can stop using that old, old, old reference to MCO.

Agree with you about the MCO reference, but calling Lloyd Jacobs, who did his best to destroy UT, a visionary is absurd.

Destruction??? All I saw was growth........

Not to belabor this, but:
1. Jacobs promised to increase enrollment substantially, but it went down every year under his administration.
2. He was a bully, who made enemies at every level of the university.
3. He was fired.
4. He wasted huge amounts of money on his pet projects while ignoring the real economic problems. Example: renaming and reorganizing colleges that turned out to be a mess that the current president is working to undo.
5. Using Scarborough (now the fired president at Akron) to do his bidding, and we see what a mess he made at Akron.
6. Jacobs promised to raise the national profile at UT and it never happened.

....................

To be fair, problems #1 and 6 are fairly common, it's been tough times. But A LOT of the infrastructure UT now enjoys happened due to his uh.... forceful will, right?

You know, I couldn't make sense of the reorganizations, didn't see increase in efficiency or marketability and didn't particularly care for the public personalities of some of those around him but.... he left a lot for our new Pres to work with. Unless he did something immoral or blatantly disrespectful, I don't think I'd be on the posse trying to chase him away from the University.

(06-16-2016 12:25 PM)Terry Wrote:  Destruction??? All I saw was growth........

Hey Terry, one bit a growth that you did NOT see on the main campus was the new science building, the plans for which had already gone to the architect with bids soon to follow. One of the first things Jake did was pull the plug on that project and use the funds to renovate space at the health science campus in order to move Pharmacy from the main campus to the health science campus.

Not saying it was an illogical move, but it sure didn't go down too well with the sciences or with pharmacy for that matter and it sure didn't represent growth for the main campus (although it did for the health science campus).

(06-16-2016 02:15 PM)eastisbest Wrote:  You know, I couldn't make sense of the reorganizations, didn't see increase in efficiency or marketability and didn't particularly care for the public personalities of some of those around him but.... he left a lot for our new Pres to work with. Unless he did something immoral or blatantly disrespectful, I don't think I'd be on the posse trying to chase him away from the University.

The idea was to put the institutional emphasis on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Medicine) and the thought was that in order to effectively implement that strategy it would be necessary to break up the College of Arts and Sciences, by far the biggest college with the biggest voting block in many if not most University wide committees as well as the Faculty Senate and the local AAUP chapter and thus dilute the voice of the liberal arts who were sure to be hostile to a strong focus on STEM because, whether real or perceived, it also implied a de-emphasis of the liberal arts.

As to administrators in general:

Every new top level administrator's top priority is to put their own personal imprint on the organization they have taken over. They like to mark their territory very much the way a dog marks his but figuratively rather than literally. There is no glory, fame or fortune in simply being an efficient manager of the organization they step into, they must reinvent and recast the organization in their own image in order to either: 1) ensure their legacy (if they are approaching retirement) or 2) build an impressive resume for their next job as they climb the corporate ladder ever higher. This is not just Jacobs or just Academicians it the typical m.o. of every bureaucrat in every bureaucracy.

I most definitely would not favor devaluing liberal arts. On the other hand, based upon that recent efficiency report, probably good that Science building didn't get built. UT seems to have more main campus class and lab space than it can use?

I am also most in favor in duh'local getting their heads out their azzes and calling things by their present names. I'm sure that last 80 year old they're trying to impress can figure out what medical facility they're referring to.