Changes at the GSB in 2014

 

 From Ateneo scholar - appointment of Dean Ang at AGSB by Fr. Jett

Welcome 2014, welcome new Dean Ang at AGSB!  Best wishes Dean Albert!

In March , Dean Albert will retire, and in comes the new Dean Rudy Ang.  I met him last week, and was going to teach Marketing that day.

Just what is going to happen to AGSB?



I understand 2 cluster heads will join Dean Buenviaje, and so with other part time instructors (not really professors, as we call them, strictly speaking because they do not have tenure;  only service record, as their contract is only good for a semester, quite good for a school of business, management that teaches compliance to regulations and ethics.  I wonder if I will/they will call me again for next semester.  It may be a good time to hang our gloves while still "young"   Just concentrate on business.  I think I lost traction with seizing opportunity while engaged with teaching at AGSB.  It was prestigious, it was nation building, but I missed many at least 12 business opportunities.   The lure of the business world and opportunity to make more money is tantalizing.

Changes

As a school which espouses change, as an educator of entrepreneurship (I am now careful to use the word professor) innovation, new is always welcome. The school must change to adopt with the times.  We saw that:

Physical

1,  Toilets are now well lighted, and have been repaired.  Still trouble with soap and tissue.

2.  The registrar's office has been beefed up and a system and IT guy is there permanently to see things are going well, when Jayjay is away.

Security

As usual, their motto is no ID no entry. They require me, to id myself everytime I enter the APS building, despite the fact that I have been here for the last 13 years.   No wonder, a lot of students are complaining especially with the P200.00 fine for not bringing in their ID

Personnel

I am sure that AdeMU, as announced in the last Faculty Conference  last August in Crimson Hotel will promote efficiency to the hilt when it implements full integration of AGSB with Loyola.  It was annnounced by the President that resources, personnel, teaching facilities and methodology will be shared.  In line with the PAASCU accreditation, more PHDs will be hired.  Younger staff will take over;  it is good for students and the learning process, and AGSB will fare well with PAASCU.

What happens to the old fogs? (like me)

Well, what gets old must be discarded. We cant call ourselves Professors; we might not be even be eligible to be called lecturers under the University classification.  Why, we do not have tenure.  As Professional School faculty, we are all part time and our contract with the school is every 90 days (OK lang because that makes sense, we can go anywhere where we want to, because we have consultancy, and day jobs).

Our only advantage with academicians is we have working knowledge of what we teach.  (That is why AGSB is professional school;  it is manned by many faculty members who are practitioners of their trade)  Compare that with let us say an HR professor, who has not managed more than 3 people in his lifetime, or a SCM PhD who has not signed any PO, or MRF before.  I guess the students can sense when practice is lacking in the man who professes knowledge.

I hope our academicians PhDs resonate well with the working class/MBA students..  But I am sure the GSB students will be enriched with theories, stats,  and research./methods

We understand that the new leaders will shift to content vs context right now, as part of quality education rather than some assessment criteria on leadership, character, value formation, personal mastery of graduates student, and adopting departmental exams (content oriented mindset -  how do students remember/memorize basics?   If I remember correctly when I was an undergrad at Loyola, we were made to understand that as Liberal Arts students, our goal was to discover how to get arrive at knowledge and truth to be man of this world. You can acquire more knowledge this way, if you open your mind to the truth.

 The accelerated programs would likewise be  under strict scrutiny and evaluation and criticism.  

But as true missionaries, as has been taught to us, we submit to the mission.  We can only obey the superiors, and accept the changes.  The mission identity for Ateneo AGSB,  that Dr. Bengzon tried to build is perhaps but now a memory, part of history.

But as we look back on our experience and as we change, were our efforts, our competence not worth it?  Have we not made better business leaders and entrepreneurs.  I hope that the Loyola way is not not the only way.  We wonder. 

Thanks Dean.  For being a boss and a friend at AGSB