Showing posts with label UniHi Failed Leadership. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UniHi Failed Leadership. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 16, 2024

To UniHi -- Bad KARMA, "What goes around COMES AROUND"

 Chaos/Turmoil follows UniHi, it's just a DISASTER!

"Great Engineering DISASTERS"
"Biggest Blunders in Military History"

"Life is 20% what happens to you, 80% HOW YOU RESPOND TO IT"
-- a wise man once said

To UniHi "upper Management":

Historically, UniHi has been CURSED with *persistent* problems.

You NEVER addressed the CORE problem -- YOU. It can be traced to U of Illinois "Curse of  Bureacracy" & its

DISASTER of Upper-Management

The seemingly ENDLESS trail of problems, now this

1 MILLION $$ Accounting FRAUD

where that Dr Jeff "Bum" Walkington is "Laughing All the Way to the Bank" with his RIDICULOUS

171.8K annual salary

while teachers are making 20% less-than-market race.

^^^ This is just FLAT OUT *INSULTING*

On top of that, the Uni teachers UNIONIZED themselves as "Uni Faculty Org", then

SUED U of Illinois (represented by that A-HOLE Dr Jeff "Bum" Walkington)

..sure enough U of I LOST, appealed, LOST THE APPEAL

"Bum" Walkington RESIGNED In 2019, a good FIVE YEARS after the Biggest SCANDAL in history of UniHI (2014) reported by

News Gazette, Daily Illini, Gargoyle (UniHi student newspaper)

which means "Bum" Walkington RAKED IN 171.8 x 5 = $859 .. nearly 1 MILLION $$

[ funded by hard-working Illinois tax payers ]

while acting as a "lame duck" principal.

SERIOUSLY, how does he show-his-face for FIVE F***G YEARS, does he not have

NO CONFIDENCE VOTE (teachers, students, parents, etc)

?? He needs to be SUED to get that .8 MILLION back, with plaintiffs:

Illinois taxpayers, students/teachers (past & present)


See below INSIDER ("peep"), whose Dad was offered U of I Presidency

Coach Juice box wrote:

Agreed, but on the outside looking in, I thought MT [ fired Athletic Director Mike Thomas ] had a stellar reputation and I didn't even know about the awards he won. I was actually shocked that anyone was able to convince him to come to Illinois. I really thought that he'd get some quality coaches here. As time goes on, I think the real elephant in the room is the top-level "leadership" we have; it's hot garbage. 

For example, my Dad has been offered by the UofI to interview for several high-level positions over the past 4-5 years, including the highest [ President U of Illinois ]. He also was formerly employed at the UofI for 20+ years, before moving on. His reply to the interview offers have always been, while chuckling,

"there's no way I'd ever work there now; the place [ U of Illinois ] is a disaster.”

My Dad seriously considered working for UNC

[ caught NCAA violations, 2005 NCAA Basketball final between UNC & U of Illinois — NULLED!!! ]

at a high-level position, recently. THAT'S how #$%&@!ed up things are at the UofI.  


To Reader:
FORGET  about U of Illinois (AND UniHi..now under U of I Provost) -- it has a Historic CHRONIC ("ingrained") problem with Upper Management

Bunch of F***G LOSERS..

U of I alumni are reporting back, they are getting FLAK:

"What is going on at U of Illinois? Are you NOT Embarassed?"





Mental Health issues, uptick in Suicide Rate!

Probably the most noted UniHi suicie was iris Chang, noted Historian


Iris Chang's suicide stunned those she tried so hard to help -- the survivors of Japan's 'Rape of Nanking' (sfgate.com)

Iris Chang - Wikipedia

She was the daughter of Dr SJ Chang

[ Harvard PhD Physics, advisor was Physics Nobelist Dr Julian Schwinger -- QED "Quantum Electro Dynamics ]

My family & Chang family were friends, as part of the close-knit Chinese-American professorial community at U of I

I can STILL remember my Mom..SCREAMING, as she received the News-Gazette -- article on Iris Chang suicide! I was visiting Urbana/IL at the time. My Mom arranged a follow-up meeting with

Joan Hicks (ex-wife of Dr Bruce Hicks, close family friend, whose son attended UniHi)

[  Caltech PhD Physics, advisor was 2-time Nobelist (Chemistry & Peace) Dr Linus Pauling  co-founder of CFD "Computational Fluid Dynamics" at U of I. My Dad (Aerospace Eng Prof, later Dept Head) joined this group, & took it over when Dr Hicks moved to

College of Education (CAI "Computer Assisted Instruction")

My Dad considered Dr Hicks as a mentor, which influenced him to gravitate towards Caltech alumni

( bringing in famed Caltech PhD Physics, Dr Stephen Wolfram, to U of I -- triple Math/Physics/CS appointment )

& collaboration

( leading a U of I  (College of Engineering) collaboration with Caltech/NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory )

The fact that their son Bruce went to UniHi, influenced my parents to send me to UniHi ]


She (Joan Hicks) told me

"There were a LOT of suicides amongst 60's UniHi students"

which implies that there was *talk* (networking amongst parents, friends, etc) about this uncomfortable issue..

"People talk (share information), WORD TRAVELS FAST"

This blog simply gathers what *I* have found in my "un-intentional History project of 70's UniHi"

sharing with other UniHi alumni. Get EACH CLASS talking, summarizing:

data-points, conclusions, suggestions for UniHi for IMPROVEMENT

"Sucess is 90% FAILURE"
-- Soichiro Honda

I attended my 20th UniHi '75 Reunion, where some class members ruefully mentioned SUICIDES!

Shawn Holliday mentioned the suicide of Chas xxx, UniHi '98 (Form 1). He was a U of I Physics major, who was on drugs. Ended his life, even made a

call for help to Mary Beberman UniHi '76

[ told to me by Mary himself ]

See post on Drug Abuse -- RAMPANT among UniHi students (70's classes). UniHi '75 especially, even other classes (early 70's)

"I did a LOT of heroine that night.."
-- leading Solar Energy figure (Santa Monica/CA), UniHi '76

"I did LOTS of drugs"
-- UniHi '72 (?), told at mini-UniHi reunion Dec/2014 (Christine Szabo's house)

^^^ OMG WTF. Recreational drug-use (small amounts) are excusable, but the ABOVE is "WAY OVER THE TOP"!!


My Take:

I put the blame SQUARELY on UniHi upper-management -- Principal, Vice-principal, Teachers, Counselor Office, etc

HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN??

Especially, with apparently RAMPANT drug use in certain classes. I DO remember a SHADY character (obviously NOT a UniHi student, likely a drug dealer) who was openly at the PLATO terminal room. He tried to pressure me to give him a PLATO sign-on, whereupon

Eric Gullerud UniHi '76

was waving his hands at me *frantically* saying

No Way..NO WAY!!

I DO remember '74 - '75 Principal Warren Royer (English Dept), walking into this VERY room late (6'ish) to CLOSE THE WINDOWS. How is it possible, a drug-dealer could be roaming the VERY SAME ROOM, the UniHi principal walked-in to close it up?

BACKGROUND:
UniHi was this *elite* school, which catered to

motivated/serious & bright students

who (along w/parents) wanted to part of this Noble Cause:

Curriculum Development Laboratory HS

[ pushing-the-limits toward Education 2.0 -- The Next Generation ]

UniHi was noted for being a STEM school, particularly Mathematics & Technology.

Dr Max Beberman (UICSM "U of Illinois Curriculum on Secondary Mathematics") co-led the (controversial) New Math movement, with Stanford Univ, at UniHI.

The PLATO computer (co-founded by Dr Don Bitzer/EE & Dr Gene Slottow/EE) was a pioneer in

CAI (Computer Assisted Instruction)

which is known today as MOOC (Massively Open Online Courseware). E.g., Coursera (Stanford origins), EdX (joint MIT & Harvard MOOC), etc

UniHi students made notable contributions (as system programmers) to PLATO:

Kim Mast UniHi '72

David Woolley UniHi '72

Dave Frankel UniHi '76


Other students were end-users (like myself), who developed Application Programs.