Chancellor Keon and his administrative hanger on, and many professional tenure professors, are consciously planning the end of Purdue Northwest (PNW). The plan is to get rid of NWI students to the point they will not be a factor anymore. It is succeeding beyond their wildest dreams -- especially with the new Chinese virus on the loose.
Remember that before the Chinese virus hit, PNW's enrollment for both campuses was down more, by far more, than the national average. PNW went down about one third or more; the national average was about 2 to 3 percent every year for at most the past five years, that is a total of fifteen or so percent. It is not going down, rather up, for Hispanics and other minorities. Look at the national figures for enrollment and high school graduation rates. You will quickly get to see that all of Keon's people and arguments are a total fraud. (Could be Mitch Daniels, President of Purdue University as a whole, as well.) Remember, in addition, over ten percent of PNW's students are from China and India, i.e. foreign students. They have pushed out NWI students. The plan is to get all of NWI students out of Calumet and North Central.
Over three years ago they had planned to get rid completely of Purdue North Central. But they found out that there were too many people at North Central that could present a problem to the closing of North Central. So what did they do? They, Chancellor Keon etc., shifted all the significant North Central people to Calumet slowly over the past three years. Like Swartz who is academically incompetent by is now Vice Chancellor of the Honors Program. Go figure. A complete know nothing is in charge of the Honors Program at Purdue Calumet. But he is not at North Central anymore. North Central never has contributed anything to Calumet. But supposedly the two were put together. Makes no sense unless you want to get rid of Purdue North Central.
There is not a student in their right mind who chooses PNW as their first school. You may choose it for a number of secondary reasons; but not for academic reasons, with the possible exception of nursing. PNW is planning to close -- when is anyone guess. I suspect it is while this Chancellor is chancellor. Maybe not. But PNW will close soon. DO NOT VOLUNTARILY COME HERE EVER!!! Remember the region has Indiana University Northwest (IUN) which more than fills the bill for you. It is not threatening closure that PNW is. Academically, PNW is generally a used to be academic institution. It is no more. It is totally a fraud. The value that you got from PNW is that you could lie and say that the really was a Purdue, West Lafayette, degree. No more can you lie. You received your so called degree from PNW not Purdue, West Lafayette. It is useless in most areas. Almost all areas. That is why most students in the know, advanced students or foreign students, transfer to West Lafayette on their second or third year.
When PNW closes there will only be IUN and Purdue Calumet. Mitch Daniels has already said, many times, he does not want anything to do with PNW. It will become part of IU. Purdue Global will take over Purdue North Central -- lock, stock, and barrel. There is no question about it. Only a question of time for the administrators to get enough of their money out of PNW. Remember the Chancellor of PNW makes over $450,000 per year. For what? No one knows.
Chancellor Keon and his hand selected team, of know nothings and make a lot of money, type of people, are going to see the end of Purdue Northwest in total. They already know it is true, which is why they are behaving the way they are. What is that behavior? They are all maximizing their pay, their power, their glory, while the school is vanishing as a school, i.e. so called university. How do I know this? The enrollment of both campuses, Calumet and North Central, is less than what it was when I started teaching there. This was after Combs and during Yackel. The real growth came under Combs when all the students came to PNW. That was only, and I mean only, because Combs cared about PNW. Keon and Mitch Daniels never have and never will. As my students have told me over and over again, Keon lives in Chicago and all he cares about is how many women he has had on PNW. That is what they tell me he has bragged about when they ride the train with him from Chicago on most mornings.
He wants its demise. He makes a lot of money for doing nothing and never has done anything for PNW. He names really useless people like Richard Rupp and Jonathan Swartz to "university" positions, when they do not even qualify to clean my academic office. Never mind the deans who are all left wing lunatics. He cannot even keep a Senior Vice Chancellor. None of they can stand any kind of competition. Regrettably, that includes the current chancellor. He is bad all around. I repeat no one has done anything for Purdue Calumet or Purdue North Central.
They have all come up with a "plan" of a two year old to cut the budget to save them money to pay themselves. Also a few people who favor them and support them. That is all. The plan they have is that if they are short so many dollars as a percent they will reduce everyone equally
To: Faculty and Staff
From: Thomas L. Keon
Chancellor
Date: February 25, 2019
RE: PNW Budget Impact for remainder of FY 19
For the second consecutive year, Purdue Northwest began the 2018-19 academic year with improved retention rates and full-time student populations. However, fall 2018 enrollment was 6.1 percent lower than budgeted. Furthermore, enrollment has declined an additional 1.1 percent, compared with the projections on which our general fund budget was based, from fall 2018 to spring 2019.
The general fund budget is projected to fall short $1.4 million over the course of the current fiscal year as a result of the fall enrollment decline. Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Steve Turner and his staff have been able to find the initial $1.4 million in savings through such measures as pulling back the tuition contingency fund, reducing bank fees, reducing contract service repairs, and reducing property insurance and utility costs.
Budget impact on faculty, staff, and students
Steps are underway to adjust to the additional shortfall of $1 million now impacting the spring semester. Each of the division units are being asked to reduce their recurring costs proportional to their reliance on the general fund. These changes are expected to be implemented in spring semester 2019.
Divisional Unit |
Recurring Funding Base |
Percent of Funding Base |
Revenue Shortfall |
Chancellor |
$3,072,071 |
2.93% |
$29,304 |
Institutional Advancement |
$2,700,828 |
2.58% |
$25,763 |
Enrollment Management and |
$9,991,992 |
9.53% |
$95,313 |
Finance and Administration |
$17,492,104 |
16.69% |
$166,857 |
Information Services |
$8,959,441 |
8.55% |
$85,464 |
Academic Affairs |
$59,838,304 |
57.08% |
$570,797 |
Athletics |
$2,778,179 |
2.65% |
$26,501 |
Total General Fund Base |
$104,832,919 |
100.00% |
$1,000,000 |
The leadership of each division will determine how to best approach these reductions. Measures may include:
In addition, we are seeking approval from the Treasurer of Purdue University to offer a targeted Early Retirement Incentive Program (ERIP) for faculty in some academic units.
Purdue Northwest is taking measures to ensure that we continue to stay fiscally solvent. These steps are evidence of our continued focus to make adjustments that are responsible.
That is not a plan. That is a game you develop while you are drinking.
Political scientist Elizabeth Oldmixon is nothing but a left wing nut case. She passes herself off as an academic; but there is nothing academic about any of her views. They are ALL left wing tropes that she has been taught over and over and make her fit into the academic setting, political scientist of religion, that she is has become known. She does not know much of anything about Christianity, but she claims as though she does. Find out what from her what Christians overall think about end of time? Or Jews. Or Israel. She only repeats the liberal leftist ideas that she has bred in her from her mother's milk. She hates Jews, period. What is sad is that she is viewed as a leader in Religion and politics. She was even head of the Religion and Politics section of the American Political Science Association.
Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, And U.S.-Israeli Relations
By Daniel G. Hummel
University of Pennsylvania Press, 352 pages, $49.95
Evangelical Christianity remains one of the few topics about which it remains permissible, and possibly even praiseworthy, for a Jewish liberal to know nothing. Take evangelical attitudes toward Israel. Almost every time the subject comes up, someone will explain that Christian Zionism conceals, under a cloak of philo-Semitism, a nefarious agenda. Christian Zionists support Israel, supposedly, to hasten the end-times, when, as Bible professor Candida Moss writes, “Jews must convert or die.” Political scientist Elizabeth Oldmixon explains that evangelicals are part of “movement in Christianity that’s as old as Christianity itself,” and want to hasten “a millennium in the future,” in which “the Jews, will convert” or be damned."
In a recent column by Jerry Davich in the Gary Post-Tribune, he called Purdue University Calumet professor David Detmer some kind of knight for taking on Mitch Daniels and Purdue University over Howard Zinn the author of the "People's History of the United States." Davich as usual is wrong on all fronts. (Remember he is Croatian. He hates Jews and other minorities. It is part of his upbringing. Look at his recent column. Zimmerman is one of his families last names. Although he says he is related to Robert Zimmerman, Bob Dylan, he never explains how a Jewish name, or person, came into his family. Could he be ashamed? Or as is true of all Croats, he denies it could ever be. Remember that Croatians, beside killing Serbs, loved to kill Jews. That was their goal in life.) via www.academic.com
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I am not about to tell you how tomorrow's election will turn out. The polls and talking heads are enough for that. Nor will I tell you that the end of America's economic growth will happen, no borders, abortion at will, etc. Although all are a possibility and many more when the Democrats take over the House. President Trump was a short, if not complete, slow down of the end. But he neither will end nor begin a continuation of the American values. It has been many, many years in denial. (Included in that was a younger self.) He cannot do it by himself. The best option is for Americans to have another civil war, with real weapons, since for once the country seems to be divided 50/50. Personally I thing a good civil was is what the United States needs.
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The big debate, or joke, now on going is about how the Purdue Board of Trustees has finally made its point by Purdue Northwest no longer being allowed to give out Purdue University Diplomas. It was a promise made over the past fifty years to incoming students. But hey the major student/faculty complaint is only that they did not "ask" for student/faculty input when they made their decision. What is so funny is that the students and faculty still think their input matters in any way. As though it will somehow be input into the decision -- for real. I really cannot stop laughing at this belief.
It is not because Purdue is money hungry, although it is, it is because the students' and faculty's views do not matter any more. Chancellor Keon, himself, is the biggest make believe in this area. He was kept on as Chancellor of Northwest because he can speak to students and faculy as though he cares when actually he never has. It was never to make Northwest Great Again. He never ever tried to do that or achieve that goal. Only make money for Hammond's mayor. Chancellor Keon as far as students and faculty are concerned has always been a fraud. Not just to his wives -- although that is a different story.
Remember he was found by a jury of his peers guilty of harassment of an individual on the basis of that person's national origin when he was dean at Southern Illinois University. He does not care in any shape or form except about himself. If you doubt what I say, then look at his hires and what he has not accomplished at Northwest. Keon has only done what Mitch Daniels asks and Hammond's Mayor wants. Since the merger Northwest has lost over 5,000 students. Northwest officially, according to its own news release, has 10,750 students on the two campuses during the fall 2018. Northwest in Hammond, by itself, had that many students in its days before Keon. But he will tell the students and faculty, and anyone else who would listen, that he cares only about the Purdue Northwest students and faculty. He never has and never will.
Rather than blogging about him, let us try blogging about the new none Purdue diploma. What Keon and Purdue West Lafayette is telling Northwest is that you are not as good as we are. It is also telling that to Purdue Fort Wayne. From now on their diplomas will say it is from Purdue Fort Wayne; not Purdue University. It is a fact that finally after all these years they actually get to say. If you are attending a small mirror of the main campus then you are not attending nor are you getting the education deserving of a Purdue University diploma.
That is the most important thing one must understand. They do not think that the education at Purdue Northwest is up to the quality of the one you would get at Purdue University in West Lafayette. In fact you do not. Having been at both, I know that it is not true that PNW is the same as Purdue University West Lafayette. Never has been. Therefore they are finally fixing the misconception. You are just not getting the same education (whatever Keon says this week.)
It does make a difference, i.e. not just the school you go to but the diploma itself. You are not longer graduating from Purdue. You are graduating from the second rate school. As all of the faculty and administrators know. By the way to get students, i.e. numbers, was accomplished by lying to students and telling them it is really the same degree because your diploma will say Purdue University. The joke is on the students and faculty. The administrators got their wish -- early Christmas.
Dean Elaine Carey is the Dean of CHESS, College of Humanities, Education, and Social Science. Compared to anyone else who works for a living she makes a lot of money and has a lot of benefits. And....and she can never ever be removed. Nonetheless she is evil and at the same time ignorant for and academic. Especially one who claims to be an historian.
With the help of people like her, which is saying all of Purdue University, never ever send your child there unless you already believe that the United States is and should be done for. It is evil.
This is the Zinn approach to American History. It is promoted by Carey, Tobin, Lerner, all the historians, all of the English Departments and all of the Sociology Department. And let us not forget Dr. Swartz as one of the most evil people in academia. He will force your children to hate the United States. It is what he does best. It is true in all of Purdue one can find some exceptions -- but their silence is what really brings the truth the the fore front. The academia of Purdue University hate the America that has created the number one country in the world politically, economically, and religiously. This is what makes the United States inherently evil. It's very creation. This is what your children will be taught. The United States creation and everything that followed from that is inherently evil.
I will be talking and telling you about the so called fake historian of the United States called Howard Zinn tomorrow (Sunday).
Contrary to the view of the snowflakes and their allies in academia (almost everyone in the professorial and administrative ranks), in point of fact the Indiana Appeals Courts never ever found that anyone at Purdue University and the University itself ever did not do the things that I have accused them all of doing. By all, I mean, the President, the Board of Trustees, Purdue Northwest Chancellor Thomas Keon, and many faculty members. My basic accusation is that they interfered and colluded to undue my G-d given rights in the American Constitution's First Amendment and in the Indiana Constitution's First Article.
The only thing the courts found is that they were not liable for bad and unconstitutional decisions they may have made. In other words, were I had thought and the rest of the American Judiciary thought that they had limited immunity from prosecution what the appeals court ruled is that they all had absolute immunity. Just like judges do. Only in Indiana is this held true for University administrators and all State employees. It even makes them immune from challenges to their decisions that breach the Federal Constitution.
This freedom from responsability of academics has led to their going after those who filed a court document(s) against them. This has been done specifically by Dean Elaine Carey of CHESS (College of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences), now college is a above school or organization. There are no students; but it is an impressive title: "I am dean of a college."
No one really believes this. It was all done by people who did not want Purdue's President Mitch Daniels to be shown for what he is. A social values coward in all of his behavior. This was shown way back in the Howard Zinn affair and his attempt to hold the raises of administration down. All failed because he, as always, is a coward when it comes to public criticism. As I have said before, it does not seem he has any backbone for any principles. He is like his mentors George Bush and Luger.
Here is the statement from FIRE, the Foundation of Individual Rights In Education,:
Indiana court invokes absolute immunity in denying professor's Free Speech Claims
I challenge everyone to read this analysis of the decision. This is the organization that the President of Purdue University Mitch Daniels said was the most accurate of in their evaluation and Purdue would follow their lead. As usual he lied. Not only about Purdue University but also his own view of free speech, its chilling, and his support of it. None of it came for no backbone Mitch.
Evil in Indiana higher education begins (but is not limited to) with the President of Purdue University Mitch Daniels (this by the way includes people working under him and the Purdue University Board of Trustees who does his bidding.) The second evil man is PNW (Purdue Northwest) Chancellor Thomas Keon. He is truly evil. There is none like him. The second evil person is College (now there is a joke) of Humanities, Social Science and Education (CHESS) Dean Elaine Carey, and finally the truly evil person, because he carries out what he is told, is former acting Department Head Jonathan Swartz. As a payoff for doing what the administration wants, i.e. Mitch Daniels, Thomas Keon, Elaine Carey, he has been rewarded, do I understand, (G-d knows he has no qualifications), with an assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Mueller. This I believe is completely true since it came after he forced me, in collusion with the Dean, to retire.
The details of why all these people are evil to students and the citizens of Indiana is forthcoming in daily posts to this blog. We will start with Mitch Daniels. In many ways the worst of the lot.
The Associated Press seems to agree with the position that I took in class. This is what I was teaching my American Government students when the course was taken away from me by the looser Jonathan Swartz. I was teaching, which was new to students, that Obama almost always lied. Unlike Trump who may lie about irrelevant things, Obama lied about important policies, such as "if you like you doctor you can keep your doctor."
All he was about, i.e. Obama, was lying about policy and now we learn that he lied even more about the Iran deal -- thanks to his belief with Valerie Jarred, that Iran was the center of the universe.
Associated Press on Obama's Lying on Iran
I was forced to retire because I toled the American Government the truth and Swarts and the administrators, such as Chancellor Keon, did not like it.