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| 1 | John Guilfoil | I simply could have not worded it better than Nick Daniloff in regards to the school of journalism not renewing Mr. and Mrs McKie’s contracts.
"This is unbelievably bad administrative management," Daniloff told the News May 23. "I have to ask myself, 'Do I want to work for such heartless and inept university management?'
This is indeed unbelievably bad administrative management.
I have to ask myself:
Do I really want to be associated with such heartless and inept university management?
Do I really want to donate money to a university with such heartless and inept management?
I graduated May 5 from a much different university than I entered in 2002.
Northeastern is certainly better, and certainly worse.
At the end of my middler year, I still had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. That was until I took a public relations course with Gladys McKie, on a whim.
By the end of the semester, I was so enamored with the media, so intrigued with it all, that I took on a double major in journalism, outside of my native College of Criminal Justice and put off what would have been an early graduation.
Professor Gladys McKie, who like most in journalism doesn’t like being called by the formal title, motivated me when no one else could. She is the reason I have come to find some meaning in my whole education.
Because of Gladys McKie’s teachings, personal motivation and the amount of time she dedicates to bettering her students, I came out of college and walked into a managerial role as online editor/coordinator at the Attleboro Sun Chronicle newspaper, one of the top newspapers in the state.
Hundreds of us in the school of journalism will be successful in out careers and in our lives because we found professors like the McKie’s who challenged and engaged us and forced us to realize our potential.
I don’t need a piece of paper hanging on a wall to be motivated. Indeed, the worst professor I ever had at Northeastern was a PhD fresh out of school.
I don’t follow degrees. I follow experience. I follow success. I follow gifted public relations practitioners. I follow journalists who were held captive as political prisoners in Soviet jails. I follow Emmy award-winning producers. I follow authors of definitive books on sports journalism. I follow one of Boston’s most read blogs.
The Northeastern University school of journalism currently has all that.
They should thank their lucky stars that they do.
We, the suffering students, get a pat on the back and a “there, there.” The administration tells us that it’s all going to be ok as they climb to the highest peak and shout “academic investment plan” to all that can hear them.
Screw the academic investment plan.
Northeastern needs a student investment plan. It’s high time they started asking what the customers wanted. |
| 2 | Carrie Knific | |
| 3 | Chet Murray | This is an outrage! She helped me get a job in PR. Whoever made this decision, should be ashamed! I hope this decision gets reversed!!!!!! |
| 4 | Jennifer Nelson | Two fantastic, popular professors shouldn't be taken away from their students like this. |
| 5 | Briana King | |
| 6 | Kara Stafford | This is outrageous. For a university that so highly expounds upon the merits of experiential education this is a terrible maneuver, a great error that disregards the acheivements of both professors' careers and sends current and future Northeastern students a message quite contrary to the supposed "Northeastern Difference." The administration needs to think about this decision long and hard and consider whether they want future students and alumni alike to question the true value of the experiential education they attend this university for. |
| 7 | Jocelyn Fielding | We need to keep Gladys..how are journalism students interested in public relations going to be able to take pr classes if she leaves? It'll definitely make more people switch out of the major if they can't take PR classes. |
| 8 | Jordyn Linsk | |
| 9 | Lauren Fatovic | |
| 10 | Megan Jicha | |
| 11 | Emily Werchadlo | Link McKie is an extremely helpful professor. |
| 12 | Imanuela Costiner | I want NU to keep these outstanding professors! |
| 13 | Tony Hyppolite | |
| 14 | Lindsay Hirdt | |
| 15 | Caitlin Gambee | Link McKie was a great teacher! He taught me how to function in a real life newspaper situation. I understood the hard work and constant deadline that goes into making a newspaper. It was such a valuable experience that I will never forget. |
| 16 | Stephanie Shore | |
| 17 | Stephanie Therrien | At a school that prides itself on experience combined with education, what better than to have experienced professors? In journalism, experience is what makes the class beneficial. |
| 18 | Adam Riglian | Do not rob other students of a chance to meet such fine teachers because they lack an insignificant piece of paper. |
| 19 | Amy Lorenz | |
| 20 | Joanna Simon | |
| 21 | KRISTINA | |
| 22 | Sara O'Malley | |
| 23 | craig rodriguez | |
| 24 | Erika Carrubba | |
| 25 | Rachel Slajda | |
| 26 | Cassidy Carlson | |
| 27 | Lauren LeClaire | |
| 28 | Sarah Buchine | |
| 29 | Daniel Schwartz | |
| 30 | Kelly Tharp | |
| 31 | Meghan Lynch | |
| 32 | Anonymous | |
| 33 | Christian Waters | Did work study for 5 years at the Dept. of Journalism. Worked with Gladys briefly freshman year. Both were two of the nicest and most knowledgable people I knew at the university and were very popular among students and faculty. |
| 34 | Kimmy Nevas | fuck northeastern |
| 35 | Alyson St. Amand | |
| 36 | sarah taylor | |
| 37 | John LeRoy | Apparently being a good teacher and mentor just isn't good enough these days. |
| 38 | John LeRoy | Apparently being a good teacher and mentor just isn't good enough these days. |
| 39 | mariko howe | |
| 40 | Matt Collette | |
| 41 | Peggy Koenig | |
| 42 | Michael Satow | |
| 43 | Meghan Colloton | |
| 44 | Elise Ramsay | |
| 45 | Ryan Menard | Journalism is a trade.
No amount of classroom study can provide the experiential training of a class like Lincoln McKie's "Newsroom Practices," no more than a carpenter would learn artisanship from a textbook. Such an intensive apprenticeship as his course is for many students the laboriously earned backbone to a courseload that is unrealistic at best and hypothetical at worst.
The University's disgraceful actions best exemplify this deficiency. That such highly qualified and educated executives prefer statistical advertising to the quality, experiential education the school trumpets belies a reckless disregard for the education of their students and the welfare of an entire family.
This decision was undoubtedly enacted with boundless greed and makes me ashamed to know the bachelor's degree I am receiving, along with two years of steady outside work as a reporter, means so little to the signatures gracing it. |
| 46 | Nikki | |
| 47 | Nicole | |
| 48 | Jessica Torrez-Riley | |
| 49 | Jewel Della Valle | This is absolutely ridiculous. Journalism and public relations are not so much about books and degrees as they are about experience and Link and Gladys have the experience to be excellent professors. |
| 50 | Leah Fielding | Academic titles may trump experience at other colleges, but this is Northeastern we're talking about. So much for being "Illuminated," it seems we're rather dull and common. Experience apparently isn't all it's cracked up to be according to our beloved administration. Let's all stop going on co-op then. |