Re: [MLUG] mlug?

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Jonathan King wrote:

>
>
> I doubt that migration to Exchange is anything that MLUG could have
> influenced given that there was some fairly vocal opposition expressed at
> the time by some departments and faculty...who in practice do have at
> least a bit more influence than your average sporadic undergraduate
> organization.


Actually I don't think faculty or departments have much influence.  Neither do 
staff it seems.  Had faculty or staff been properly involved in the decision, I 
don't think we would have adopted Exchange.  I also think that we would not have 
adopted PeopleSoft (if you speak to secretarial staff on campus, they complain 
bitterly about this new accounting package that has been wholesale forced upon 
the whole university).  I am told from speaking to people on the Faculty Council 
that they were not involved with these decisions.

These decisions all seem to come from the upper adminstration, and the way they 
arrive at their decisions seems mysterious.  These are the same people who 
control the hospital, which according to a recent state audit, lost about $12M 
over 2.5 years, because they did not file insurance claims in a timely manner, 
or properly preauthorise treatments.



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