Retirement Incentives for WMU Professional Support Staff
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Morgan Wolford
6 years ago
Treat the WMU staff with the respect it deserves. All of Kalamazoo benefits when the university sets the proper example.
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Anonymous
6 years ago
I think the professional support staff should be offered the same retirement incentives as those being offered to the faculty.
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Anonymous
6 years ago
We need equity for all employees
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Robin Nott
6 years ago
WMU alumni B.A. 1973
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Beenish Kulsoom
6 years ago
The professional support staff has always been very helpful to all the students. But to international students they have been extremely generous with their time and support. WMU must not leave their professional support staff at this time of crisis. Decisions by the WMU Board today will have deep impact on how the WMU shall be remembered, perceived and judged in future. Please give staff the help that they demand!
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Manuel Soque
6 years ago
Human capital is the most important resource of any serious organization. Professional support staff are an integral part of WMU. They add value to our University and thus must be treated with dignity and paid what they deserve.
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Gay Walker
6 years ago
Makes such sense to treat staff the same way faculty are treated.
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Vilitcia Barghouti
6 years ago
From my experience as a Ph.D. student at WMU, the professional support staff have always represented the beautiful face of the university, by providing and sharing their indefatigable patience, support, and wisdom, in all respects, to the faculty, staff, and students. If the institutional leadership can work to support the faculty in various ways, they should do as much, if not more, for the support staff. Too often leadership feels at one with others in their socioeconomic class rather than be truly dispassionate, and thus, they are “un-business-like” with their socioeconomic colleagues. However, because the leadership are emotionally, psychologically, and financially distant from their support staff, with whom they do not feel any sense of sincere collegiality in contributing to the overall educational and developmental human resource potential of the student body as the fundamental mission of WMU, the leadership feels they should be dispassionate and "business-like" with the support staff and expect the support staff to swallow whatever is done to them regardless of the dedication and honorable conduct by the support staff. The leadership feels that the vulnerable because they are vulnerable should not make the lives of the less vulnerable leadership uncomfortable even though the vulnerable are the ones most damaged by COVID-19 and by the leadership. As long as the class dimension is not recognized, the easier it is for the leadership to abuse the most vulnerable who are often the most dedicated. As leadership likes to joke . . . “never let a good crisis go to waste” and after all the support staff and even graduate students are really just to be seen and used as "slaves" of, by, and for the system which is all about the leadership and the leadership’s deep convictions about their own entitlements and deserved distinctiveness, especially during a crisis. Vilitcia Barghouti
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Vilitcia Barghouti
6 years ago
From my experience as a Ph.D. student at WMU, the professional support staff have always represented the beautiful face of the university, by providing and sharing their indefatigable patience, support, and wisdom, in all respects, to the faculty, staff, and students. If the institutional leadership can work to support the faculty in various ways, they should do as much, if not more, for the support staff. Too often leadership feels at one with others in their socioeconomic class rather than be truly dispassionate, and thus, they are “un-business-like” with their socioeconomic colleagues. However, because the leadership are emotionally, psychologically, and financially distant from their support staff, with whom they do not feel any sense of sincere collegiality in contributing to the overall educational and developmental human resource potential of the student body as the fundamental mission of WMU, the leadership feels they should be dispassionate and "business-like" with the support staff and expect the support staff to swallow whatever is done to them regardless of the dedication and honorable conduct by the support staff. The leadership feels that the vulnerable because they are vulnerable should not make the lives of the less vulnerable leadership uncomfortable even though the vulnerable are the ones most damaged by COVID-19 and by the leadership. As long as the class dimension is not recognized, the easier it is for the leadership to abuse the most vulnerable who are often the most dedicated. As leadership likes to joke . . . “never let a good crisis go to waste” and after all the support staff and even graduate students are really just to be seen and used as "slaves" of, by, and for the system which is all about the leadership and the leadership’s deep convictions about their own entitlements and deserved distinctiveness, especially during a crisis.
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Anonymous
6 years ago
Staff should be offered the same retirement incentive as faculty.
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Dr James Leja Professor and Chair Emeritus
6 years ago
This is absolutely the right thing to do!
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Abi Chamlagai
6 years ago
A must
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Shannon Penny
6 years ago
Equality ?>??
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Anonymous
6 years ago
I know money is tight, but this is the right thing to do and will leave a better impression than any dollar sign.
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Shannon McMorrow
6 years ago
Staff are critical to the mission of WMU and deserve options just like faculty are getting.
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Jeannyne Depoian
6 years ago
Retirement incentives for staff are only fair.
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Darcy Wilkin
6 years ago
As a former WMU student and a current volunteer at WMUK, I support the extension of retirement benefits to support staff.
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Joe VanDerBos
6 years ago
Extending the early retirement incentive offer to staff would go a long way toward shoring up morale and showing that the University values all employee contributions.
Treat the WMU staff with the respect it deserves. All of Kalamazoo benefits when the university sets the proper example.
I think the professional support staff should be offered the same retirement incentives as those being offered to the faculty.
We need equity for all employees
WMU alumni B.A. 1973
The professional support staff has always been very helpful to all the students. But to international students they have been extremely generous with their time and support. WMU must not leave their professional support staff at this time of crisis. Decisions by the WMU Board today will have deep impact on how the WMU shall be remembered, perceived and judged in future. Please give staff the help that they demand!
Human capital is the most important resource of any serious organization. Professional support staff are an integral part of WMU. They add value to our University and thus must be treated with dignity and paid what they deserve.
Makes such sense to treat staff the same way faculty are treated.
From my experience as a Ph.D. student at WMU, the professional support staff have always represented the beautiful face of the university, by providing and sharing their indefatigable patience, support, and wisdom, in all respects, to the faculty, staff, and students. If the institutional leadership can work to support the faculty in various ways, they should do as much, if not more, for the support staff. Too often leadership feels at one with others in their socioeconomic class rather than be truly dispassionate, and thus, they are “un-business-like” with their socioeconomic colleagues. However, because the leadership are emotionally, psychologically, and financially distant from their support staff, with whom they do not feel any sense of sincere collegiality in contributing to the overall educational and developmental human resource potential of the student body as the fundamental mission of WMU, the leadership feels they should be dispassionate and "business-like" with the support staff and expect the support staff to swallow whatever is done to them regardless of the dedication and honorable conduct by the support staff. The leadership feels that the vulnerable because they are vulnerable should not make the lives of the less vulnerable leadership uncomfortable even though the vulnerable are the ones most damaged by COVID-19 and by the leadership. As long as the class dimension is not recognized, the easier it is for the leadership to abuse the most vulnerable who are often the most dedicated. As leadership likes to joke . . . “never let a good crisis go to waste” and after all the support staff and even graduate students are really just to be seen and used as "slaves" of, by, and for the system which is all about the leadership and the leadership’s deep convictions about their own entitlements and deserved distinctiveness, especially during a crisis. Vilitcia Barghouti
From my experience as a Ph.D. student at WMU, the professional support staff have always represented the beautiful face of the university, by providing and sharing their indefatigable patience, support, and wisdom, in all respects, to the faculty, staff, and students. If the institutional leadership can work to support the faculty in various ways, they should do as much, if not more, for the support staff. Too often leadership feels at one with others in their socioeconomic class rather than be truly dispassionate, and thus, they are “un-business-like” with their socioeconomic colleagues. However, because the leadership are emotionally, psychologically, and financially distant from their support staff, with whom they do not feel any sense of sincere collegiality in contributing to the overall educational and developmental human resource potential of the student body as the fundamental mission of WMU, the leadership feels they should be dispassionate and "business-like" with the support staff and expect the support staff to swallow whatever is done to them regardless of the dedication and honorable conduct by the support staff. The leadership feels that the vulnerable because they are vulnerable should not make the lives of the less vulnerable leadership uncomfortable even though the vulnerable are the ones most damaged by COVID-19 and by the leadership. As long as the class dimension is not recognized, the easier it is for the leadership to abuse the most vulnerable who are often the most dedicated. As leadership likes to joke . . . “never let a good crisis go to waste” and after all the support staff and even graduate students are really just to be seen and used as "slaves" of, by, and for the system which is all about the leadership and the leadership’s deep convictions about their own entitlements and deserved distinctiveness, especially during a crisis.
Staff should be offered the same retirement incentive as faculty.
This is absolutely the right thing to do!
A must
Equality ?>??
I know money is tight, but this is the right thing to do and will leave a better impression than any dollar sign.
Staff are critical to the mission of WMU and deserve options just like faculty are getting.
Retirement incentives for staff are only fair.
As a former WMU student and a current volunteer at WMUK, I support the extension of retirement benefits to support staff.
Extending the early retirement incentive offer to staff would go a long way toward shoring up morale and showing that the University values all employee contributions.
I agree wholeheartedly.
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