My personal thoughts on the whole Kilgarlin Center / UT Austin debacle coming real soon. In thinking about the seven stages of grief — 1) Shock or Disbelief, 2) Denial, 3) Bargaining, 4) Guilt, 5) Anger, 6) Depression, 7) Acceptance and Hope — I think I’m about a 5.4-5.7 as of today. My anger and depression, you know, they’ve got a beat. I can dance to it. Pretty major earthquake. They don’t make hurricanes this strong.
Actually, I’m kinda waiting to respond to a formal announcement on this whole mess that I’m hoping that Dean Andrew Dillon of the School of Information will issue soon. Oh, and I really hope it includes further details about the democratization of the elite field of conservation b/c I’m dying to make someone a superhero cape. While I’m not banking on this press release to be timely or to move me directly to the “hope and acceptance” phase, I am hopeful that another institution will see value in the direction the conservation studies track at the Kilgarlin Center was heading and will plunk it up and off and to a brighter and more supportive future. Too bad, Austin is a great town in which to be young, culturally inquisitive, and poor.
More on that later. Now, Friday night BBQ.
September 4, 2009 at 11:41 pm
Will there be a formal announcement? My email to the Dean has been waiting for a response for over a week, and I am starting to suspect that he is waiting to issue a statement until it is too late for anyone to say anything of import.
Bah!
September 6, 2009 at 5:57 am
I’ve been waiting a couple months for a reply to my letter to him. I also wrote the Provost, no reply. My library’s director wrote to Dillon, too, after I asked her to do so, no reply. The only reply I’ve seen to anything is a very disturbing, self centered, nasty-toned email a friend of mine (and another alum) got via email from Dillon. I nearly called him that day demanding he apologize to her, but I didn’t.
Maybe we should start taking bets on whether any information will come directly from Dillon, the iSchool, the Provost or anyone. Why should they start communicating now?
I posted my thoughts on PCAN (www.pcan.wordpress.com) but no responses have been posted there by anyone either. Alas. If you hear anything, please post!