Yes, it’s basically a teaching school … there is no ambition other than to bring in the cash, otherwise how could they settle for just two weak seniors like that and then promote a post doc to lead the group.
Sydney University Finance toxic and corrupt
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Who's the "you" in "you've got money"?
Most deans and admin people are also trying to extract rent in Australian universities.I can’t understand how governance can be that hard. If you’ve got money and want a good department, then put the resources into getting quality people and give them an environment where they can feel supported and succeed. It’s not rocket science.
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Unfortunately there are only 2 decent people in their finance department. One is an arrogant baldy and the other is a hard-working European. The rest of the department belongs at pure teaching schools. Yet, the department as a whole is arrogant because the uni enjoys a good reputation Australia.
Nah - knock that count down to 1. The arrogant baldy was refused promotion to Level D despite 3 A* and two top 3 Finance, as well as winning the best teacher of the year award for the whole business school. The reason? Not enough 'Service'. A couple of candidates who did get promoted to Ass Prof had a grand total of 3 Economics Letters. Yep - 7,500 words of published research. I guess they knew how to provide a quality of 'service' to the Dean that the baldy simply wasnt able to.
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In many Asian schools, service is the most important contribution! They expect you to provide all kinds of benefits and service, otherwise, they will try their best to destroy you.
The service is not the issue. The real issue is whether you are happy to be the servant .
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After you have endures long enough being a low class servant, you get to be a high class servant (Dean or provost)
In many Asian schools, service is the most important contribution! They expect you to provide all kinds of benefits and service, otherwise, they will try their best to destroy you.
The service is not the issue. The real issue is whether you are happy to be the servant .
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After you have endures long enough being a low class servant, you get to be a high class servant (Dean or provost)
In many Asian schools, service is the most important contribution! They expect you to provide all kinds of benefits and service, otherwise, they will try their best to destroy you.
The service is not the issue. The real issue is whether you are happy to be the servant .
Thats exactly the problem! Doing 0 research and teaching 1000+ students per semester should not entitle you to be a professor. At USYD it seems all the administrators have 'served' their time as servants and now want retribution on the new staff - mostly to save them from doing any research or trading.
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After you have endures long enough being a low class servant, you get to be a high class servant (Dean or provost)
In many Asian schools, service is the most important contribution! They expect you to provide all kinds of benefits and service, otherwise, they will try their best to destroy you.
The service is not the issue. The real issue is whether you are happy to be the servant .
Thats exactly the problem! Doing 0 research and teaching 1000+ students per semester should not entitle you to be a professor. At USYD it seems all the administrators have 'served' their time as servants and now want retribution on the new staff - mostly to save them from doing any research or trading.
I believe the soon to be appointed Professor has not published anything or co-ordinated / taught a course since they were a Post doc in 2017. Just plenty of "service" by creating a toxic environment that is driving all the talent away.
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Not enough 'Service' == didn't kiss the ass of the Dean ad seniors in the department. Even though you indeed provided lots of real 'Service', they can unethically claim you didn't. Sick and toxic!
Unfortunately there are only 2 decent people in their finance department. One is an arrogant baldy and the other is a hard-working European. The rest of the department belongs at pure teaching schools. Yet, the department as a whole is arrogant because the uni enjoys a good reputation Australia.
Nah - knock that count down to 1. The arrogant baldy was refused promotion to Level D despite 3 A* and two top 3 Finance, as well as winning the best teacher of the year award for the whole business school. The reason? Not enough 'Service'. A couple of candidates who did get promoted to Ass Prof had a grand total of 3 Economics Letters. Yep - 7,500 words of published research. I guess they knew how to provide a quality of 'service' to the Dean that the baldy simply wasnt able to.
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I cant see any A/Profs with Economic Letters on the departments website. Admittedly the A/profs dont look that impressive, but at least they have A* pubs.
Unfortunately there are only 2 decent people in their finance department. One is an arrogant baldy and the other is a hard-working European. The rest of the department belongs at pure teaching schools. Yet, the department as a whole is arrogant because the uni enjoys a good reputation Australia.
Nah - knock that count down to 1. The arrogant baldy was refused promotion to Level D despite 3 A* and two top 3 Finance, as well as winning the best teacher of the year award for the whole business school. The reason? Not enough 'Service'. A couple of candidates who did get promoted to Ass Prof had a grand total of 3 Economics Letters. Yep - 7,500 words of published research. I guess they knew how to provide a quality of 'service' to the Dean that the baldy simply wasnt able to.
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what type of Service is needed？ Providing money, papers, or even SS a x?
Unfortunately there are only 2 decent people in their finance department. One is an arrogant baldy and the other is a hard-working European. The rest of the department belongs at pure teaching schools. Yet, the department as a whole is arrogant because the uni enjoys a good reputation Australia.
Nah - knock that count down to 1. The arrogant baldy was refused promotion to Level D despite 3 A* and two top 3 Finance, as well as winning the best teacher of the year award for the whole business school. The reason? Not enough 'Service'. A couple of candidates who did get promoted to Ass Prof had a grand total of 3 Economics Letters. Yep - 7,500 words of published research. I guess they knew how to provide a quality of 'service' to the Dean that the baldy simply wasnt able to.
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The Dean at Sydney University made a part time post doc (SA) who works in a low tier position at a low tier pension fund and a failed academic accountant (SVDL) joint Head of Department (HoD) of the Finance department 3 years ago. SA has never coordinated a course or presented at a conference. Both have weak research output. Multiple complaints of a toxic bullying culture under their ‘leadership’ have been ignored. SA and the Dean appear to be good friends. To legitimize SAs initial appointment as HoD, the Dean appointed SA to the spurious part time position of "Practitioner in Residence", the advertisement for the position never made public and he was the only applicant.
Sydney Uni are now advertising for a "Professor of Practice", because SA now wants to be a full time Prof. (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/en-au/listing/265538/professor-of-practice-in-finance/). No need to have ever supervised a PhD student, but you must work in industry but be a head of department, which narrows down to about 1 person in Oz that can apply.
Anyone thinking of joining save yourself the pain, practically everyone is looking to leave, the abuse of power is rife and the culture toxic. They are trying to drastically increase teaching load. There used to be a policy that staff do three deliveries. They scratched that policy and introduced a new one where the HoD allocates teaching at their full discretion – in theory you could be placed across 10 courses for a few hours tutoring on each.