Monday, February 7, 2011

Dean's "dangerous and bizarre" decision. Letter to UC President Williams by founder of Computer Sci program Jerry Paul

 Dean Montemagno of CEAS has announced a town meeting to be held on Thursday,
Feb. 3.  It is my understanding that during this meeting he intends to announce a “plan”
for CEAS that includes the indefinite suspension of undergraduate admissions to the
Computer Science (CS) undergraduate program.  Since this is tantamount to cancelling
this program, I will refer to it as a cancellation in what follows.  I am writing to ask you
to consider the consequences of such a dangerous and bizarre potential action.
     The reason that I am writing to you directly is the failure on part of the Dean to
properly inform the CS faculty of his plan......


A good part of my academic career was spent building up the computer science
program here at UC (see www.cs.uc.edu/~jpaul).  The CS program has enjoyed
remarkable success, in spite of the unconscionable lack of support that it has received
since being moved from A&S to the College of Engineering (COE now CEAS) in 1994.
This lack of local support can be well documented, and flies in the face of local, State,
and National priorities.  I would be happy to provide detailed documentation if desired......

Read more at: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16466720/PresidentLetter.pdf

1 comment:

  1. This is an eye opening letter that tells a whole lot of things about the sinister plans against CS that have been deliberately into work in UC since long.

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