Clyde has a lengthy and somewhat curious history.
Clyde did a cable segment of 'Commonwealth Journal' with Senator Pacheco, during which he swore 'independence, no connection to the industry...' blah, blah, blah. [Always curious that his footnotes credited other Casino Shills.]
I video taped that segment and suppose I need to wade through the dust to determine the date....
It happened to be AFTER Ryan Adams had posted links of Clyde's 'consulting firm' at Clyde's home address to MAINE. [Must have been the aliens!]
Clyde threatened to sue...never defining the 'pseudo blogs' he intended to target.
I sent Ryan's links to Maine to Senator Pacheco who responded 'Not so.'
Clyde is a minor sleaze, of little importance and credible journalists don't quote him.
Clyde used to count license plates at out-of-state Slot Barns.
Now who's gonna do it?
As a curious side note, Clyde did a polling on the Brockton Power Plant that was widely criticized for its failures. Clyde threatened to sue. [Maybe still archived by Brockton Enterprise....if anyone cares.]
The bottom line is: Don't believe an 'expert'!
Previously posted:
Clyde Barrow: Duh?
Casino Shill Barrow Exposed -- Again! #2
Casino Shill Barrow Exposed -- Again!
Some Facts
DARTMOUTH — "Why are so many of the institution's most successful faculty all deciding to leave at the same time?"
That's what UMass Dartmouth professor Clyde Barrow asks in a public resignation statement titled "The Book of Exodus" that he submitted to the provost Monday.
After 27 years at the university, the prominent director of the Center for Policy Analysis said he will retire effective July 31, joining "several others" who he alleges have left in recent months having "grown tired of Chancellor Divina Grossman's habitually abusive treatment."
University spokesman John Hoey denied the allegations and said Barrow's statement is riddled with "factual inaccuracies and misleading statements."
"I am known for telling the truth, and my colleagues will back me up," Barrow said.
"He is well known on campus for embellishing criticism of the administration and his fellow faculty members," Hoey said.
Hoey said he is not sure if it is a coincidence that Barrow's angst comes at a time when the administration has been asking "hard questions" about the financials regarding his center and "his relationship to his consultancy firm."
Barrow, whose salary is $185,000, said there have been no questions raised that he knows of. He said he has a signed letter of authorization from the UMass General Counsel's Office "authorizing my consulting activities as not being in conflict with my directorship of the Center for Policy Analysis" and that he has regularly filed quarterly conflict-of-interest statements with the provost's office since 2006 "and no one has ever raised a single question."
"This is exactly the problem. Rather than dealing with issues directly, they turn everything into a personal attack," he said. "These types of unwarranted and malicious attacks on faculty are exactly why people are leaving the campus in such large numbers."
Bal Ram Singh, biochemistry professor and director of the Indic Center at UMass Dartmouth whose multimillion dollar Botulinum Research Center was shut down by the administration, said Barrow's departure will be a loss.
"It's very sad. He's a very prominent scholar and an internationally known figure who has done a lot of important work in this community. I don't think there'll be much left of the Center for Policy Analysis when he leaves," Singh said.
Barrow pointed to several faculty members who he said have "been pushed out" in recent months.
They include former director of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture Frank Sousa, who is now at UMass Lowell; Susan Jennings, who quit last fall after her office of sustainability studies was dissolved; former management professor Susanne Scott, who is now associate dean of the School of Business at Brooklyn College, City University of New York; former chair of the Teaching and Learning Department Joao Rosa, who is now at Bridgewater State; and Karen O'Connor, director of the center for University School Community Partnerships, who Barrow said is retiring soon.
"It is important to mention that no one is leaving UMass Dartmouth because of last year's tragedy," Barrow said in the letter, referring to the Boston Marathon bombings. "Instead, the real underlying problem at UMass Dartmouth continues to be an administrative crisis that is getting worse as senior administrators literally isolate themselves from the campus behind multiple walls of glass, key code security systems, and body guards."
The "most egregious" of Barrow's statement include allegations of a safe house and bulletproof glass for senior administration that Hoey said are not true. However, the university did provide about $7,200 in security upgrades like key card access to the administrative building, that includes the chancellor's office, which is "fairly common," he said.
Lester Cory, director of Center for Rehabilitation Research, who Barrow said in his letter "retired due to a lack of campus support," denied it. He said he retired five years ago because it was time but remains director of the center he founded.
"The administration had no role to play in my retirement," Cory said. "I think the university has been very supportive of the work we are doing."
Cory also said he is aware of "a couple of disgruntled center directors" but thinks the university has hired "some very good people" in recent years and is "making progress."
Grant O'Rielly, faculty senate president and physics professor, said people are leaving due to retirement or advancement in their careers. There will be more people retiring in the future due to demographics, he said.
"It is true that there are a number of senior faculty leaving the university this year, possibly more than in an average year, but this is not that unusual in any large organization," he said. "Others (like Professor Barrow) may well be disillusioned, it is certainly true that some groups saw their level of support change under Chancellor Grossman compared with what they got from Chancellor MacCormack."
This is an opportunity for the university to hire new, young faculty to replace its outgoing senior members, O'Rielly said.
"If we don't see this happen, then I would be worried that the departure of so many senior faculty does indeed not bode well for the future of the institution," he said.
Hoey was unable to immediately provide a number for how many faculty members have left in the past year but said that many of them either retired or moved to better opportunities as is "the nature of the higher education market." He said the university continues to look to hire qualified people "committed to transformative teaching, research and community engagement."
This is not the first time the UMass Dartmouth administration and faculty have butted heads.
Last year, faculty members called for increased dialogue at one of several faculty and student panels organized. Many called the administration "deaf to their concerns" and "several placed the blame on faculty members themselves or called for changes to the university's bureaucratic management structure," according to an article in The Standard-Times on April 30, 2013.
Correction
This story was modified on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, to reflect the following:
Lester Cory's name was incorrect in an article in The Standard-Times on Monday. Clyde Barrow's last name was incorrect on two occasions in the same article.
Text of Clyde Barrow's resignation statement
The Book of Exodus (from UMass Dartmouth): and an open letter of resignation
Almost one year ago, the Boston Herald (05-06-2013) published an excellent and insightful editorial documenting how the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev terrorist incident at UMass Dartmouth opened a window onto the entrenched “moral bankruptcy” of our senior administration. Unfortunately, the only thing that has changed since Rachelle Cohen's brutally truthful editorial is that UMass Dartmouth has continued sinking deeper into organizational and programmatic chaos, and each day ushers in a new reminder of the institution's disintegration and decay. Consequently, I will be resigning (actually retiring) from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, effective July 31, 2014, to accept a new faculty position as department chair at a doctoral-granting research university in a sunbelt state that is dedicated to conducting “applied research to address critical local, state, national, and global needs.”
During my 27 years at UMass Dartmouth, I have twice chaired the department of political science, founded a department of public policy, and reestablished the Center for Policy Analysis as a resource for state and local governments, school departments, non-profit organizations, labor unions, and private businesses. I have served as President and Treasurer of the UMass Faculty Federation, Director of the Master of Public Policy Program, and chaired the national Caucus for a New Political Science. However, like so many other senior faculty at UMass Dartmouth, I have decided to exit the campus, despite profound misgivings about leaving friends and colleagues that I have known for many years. In addition, I have had the opportunity to work in partnership with people in virtually every city and town in Massachusetts and I learned a great deal from every one of those individuals. I look forward to continuing those constructive partnerships as I will be maintaining an active presence in New England through Pyramid Associates, LLC, a private consulting firm which I founded in 2006.
Over the past several months, I interviewed for nearly 20 jobs at universities in nine states from coast to coast. One of the first questions posed to me in each interview was: “Why would you leave UMass Dartmouth at this stage of your career?” My answer was that “the real question is not why am I leaving UMass Dartmouth, but why are so many of the institution's most successful faculty all deciding to leave at the same time?”
And that list gets longer every day.
It includes the former co-director of the Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Institute, who despite being a world renowned fisheries expert who brought millions of dollars in federal dollars to UMass Dartmouth, finally retired in frustration with the current administration. It includes the former director of the Center for Portuguese Studies, who raised millions of dollars in endowments, helped established a new department, and founded a Portuguese-American archive. He left to take charge of a new million dollar center focusing on the same subject at UMass Lowell. The former director of the Center for Botulinum Research and the Indic Center has taken a sabbatical and will retire to pursue his internationally recognized research through an independent non-profit organization. A former professor of management and associate dean of the Charlton College of Business left to become an associate dean at Brooklyn College. The former director of the Center for Rehabilitation Research, which has generated millions of dollars to support the development of custom designed technology to assist the physically challenged, has retired due to a lack of campus support. The director of the Kaput Center for Innovation in STEM Education is leaving to become a dean of education at Southern Connecticut State University. The former chair of the now defunct Department of Teaching & Learning left to accept a position as the director of a multi-million dollar research center at Bridgewater State University. The founder and director of UMass (Dartmouth) Lisbon left to accept an executive position at the multi-billion Luso-American Foundation. After generating more than $10 million in grants to support K-12 teacher training, the director of the Center for University and School Partnerships (CUSP) is retiring to pursue other career alternatives because of the administration's “ambiguous” responses to proposals for future development.
This is not the entire list of refugees, which also includes many promising but discouraged junior faculty who left as soon as it became evident that the new administration was dismantling UMD from the inside, and more by ineptitude than by design. And I should not forget the exodus of numerous and talented professional staff, who have simply grown tired of Chancellor Divina Grossman's habitually abusive treatment. This will not be the end of the exodus, because once marketable faculty and professional staff accept the reality that their friends and colleagues have actually left, it will set off a second wave of departures next year. Meanwhile, Provost Mohammad Karim, ostensibly the university's chief academic officer, has responded to this intellectual meltdown with practiced indifference.
It is important to mention that no one is leaving UMass Dartmouth because of last year's tragedy.
Instead, the real underlying problem at UMass Dartmouth continues to be an administrative crisis that is getting worse as senior administrators literally isolate themselves from the campus behind multiple walls of glass, key code security systems, and body guards.
Yet, hiding from the truth does not change the fact that the individuals who are leaving UMD account for millions of dollars in grants, fundraising, and public service contracts, as well as hundreds of scholarly publications, and thousands of media mentions that will no longer carry the UMD imprimatur. Further, each of these individuals carries a story into the wider world of academia that will be retold in scholarly articles, discussed at professional conferences, passed around in emails and social media, and become part of the global academic grape vine that will impact UMD's future funding and academic reputation.
More people -- from the UMass Board of Trustees, to constitutional officers and state legislators, to a media that should expect more from a state university system that singularly belies our reputation as the world's center of educational excellence -- need to start asking what's wrong with UMass Dartmouth? And UMass President Robert Caret has an obligation to step forward and accept responsibility for this academic disaster.
Clyde W. Barrow is [WAS] the Director of the Center for Policy Analysis at UMass Dartmouth.
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