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<blockquote data-quote="Tommy_Taylor_1972" data-source="post: 999053" data-attributes="member: 6776"><p>When I was a Tech 1968-72, it was IPTAY "I pay ten a year" for Clemson. I agree with you about GT not putting students last. Making them stand outside in the freezing cold until on hour before basketball game time, along with all the handicapped and elderly alumni and visitors. Of course the contract our the operation and event management at the basketball games and GT leadership are all inside warm. They even treat the faculty as bad, making them pay for faculty parking spaces at $800 per year and having no parking places for football and basketball games, since they hire out a parking company who sell all the spaces. And they treat women faculty like they did in the 1960's, underpaid and overworked and under-promoted. Non-tenured men with masters degrees make twice as much as tenured women professors. My personal situation is my niece, who came to Tech in a masters in industrial design program and finished her education being the first PhD in Industrial Design. She worked her way up from assistant professor to a tenured associate professor in the school of Industrial Design and associate chair. As well she was underpaid as well as receiving harassment from male supervisors. She was recruited and offered the chair of the industrial design school in the world's #1 industrial design college in London. She put up with Tech for 20 years and will never return. Georgia Tech misses so many opportunities for doing what is right for the students and faculty. It's all about the shiny object growth from industry, the department of defense in research funds, and recently wealthy donors. Hence we gent Hyundai field and expansion beyond the budget, which invites more industry to pour in money. Before I retired from the military-industry complex, around the early two thousands, I began to see the swing of GT from focus on student and faculty to focus on growth and development, led by those with a management style of building and hoping they will come and not doing proper risk assessment of return on investments. Tech's heritage began to be whitewashed over and every part of Tech became a profit-loss center, which usually does not fit well with a charity tax-exempt entity. Now it is about survival through getting more money to pay the bills, and pay athletics bills through a richer big donor fan/corporate experience. I hope I am wrong in hearing that the now Letterwinners Club (former T-Club) lounge at the north end of Grant Field will be the Hyundai suite after remodeling/destroying the Edge building. Industry, like most big donors, give big bucks so they can have a say in how things are run. The horse is riding the cowboy in an up side down new world world of business oriented management. Most business go out of business a long before Georgia Tech has been a well-respected academic institution. No point in complaining if you are just an military retired social security alumni. I am sure most of our 175,000 alumni can find other things to donate to if they are not appreciated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tommy_Taylor_1972, post: 999053, member: 6776"] When I was a Tech 1968-72, it was IPTAY "I pay ten a year" for Clemson. I agree with you about GT not putting students last. Making them stand outside in the freezing cold until on hour before basketball game time, along with all the handicapped and elderly alumni and visitors. Of course the contract our the operation and event management at the basketball games and GT leadership are all inside warm. They even treat the faculty as bad, making them pay for faculty parking spaces at $800 per year and having no parking places for football and basketball games, since they hire out a parking company who sell all the spaces. And they treat women faculty like they did in the 1960's, underpaid and overworked and under-promoted. Non-tenured men with masters degrees make twice as much as tenured women professors. My personal situation is my niece, who came to Tech in a masters in industrial design program and finished her education being the first PhD in Industrial Design. She worked her way up from assistant professor to a tenured associate professor in the school of Industrial Design and associate chair. As well she was underpaid as well as receiving harassment from male supervisors. She was recruited and offered the chair of the industrial design school in the world's #1 industrial design college in London. She put up with Tech for 20 years and will never return. Georgia Tech misses so many opportunities for doing what is right for the students and faculty. It's all about the shiny object growth from industry, the department of defense in research funds, and recently wealthy donors. Hence we gent Hyundai field and expansion beyond the budget, which invites more industry to pour in money. Before I retired from the military-industry complex, around the early two thousands, I began to see the swing of GT from focus on student and faculty to focus on growth and development, led by those with a management style of building and hoping they will come and not doing proper risk assessment of return on investments. Tech's heritage began to be whitewashed over and every part of Tech became a profit-loss center, which usually does not fit well with a charity tax-exempt entity. Now it is about survival through getting more money to pay the bills, and pay athletics bills through a richer big donor fan/corporate experience. I hope I am wrong in hearing that the now Letterwinners Club (former T-Club) lounge at the north end of Grant Field will be the Hyundai suite after remodeling/destroying the Edge building. Industry, like most big donors, give big bucks so they can have a say in how things are run. The horse is riding the cowboy in an up side down new world world of business oriented management. Most business go out of business a long before Georgia Tech has been a well-respected academic institution. No point in complaining if you are just an military retired social security alumni. I am sure most of our 175,000 alumni can find other things to donate to if they are not appreciated. [/QUOTE]
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