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So, some thoughts on all this LSU Title IX stuff that comes from an angle I don't think has been discussed.
1/X, obviously
The state of Louisiana spent...oh, 10 years or so, completely slashing appropriations for higher education, LSU included. This will often get defended by people framing it as "fat tenured professors who want free vacations on the taxpayer dime" HOWEVER
Another result, in fact, the more common one, is that the university will struggle to hire and maintain qualified staff and administrators. The kind who's job it would be to work specifically these kind of situations.
The people who would field these allegations and make sure that the appropriate authorities are involved and the appropriate discipline administered. As opposed to emails and phone calls left unanswered.
Slashing budgets has a human cost. Good people leave for better opportunities (or in my case, get laid off). Replacing them often times means hiring somebody that's less qualified, but cheaper, or just shuffling duties onto other people with other jobs.
I can tell you at least one administrator that was hired despite leaving a former job with a discrimination lawsuit over their head. Certainly doesn't seem like a good move, right? Ah, but they would work for the pay offered, as opposed to other applicants. Wonder why?
That person has since moved on another job at another major university, because there's also "the club" aspect to this, of course.
But anyway, if you want to know why there was some massive breakdown in the system here, might I offer that the system is understaffed, underpaid and possibly underqualified, because the university is underfunded.
That's it, I'm done.
That's it, I'm done.
