The Uni Wollongong vice chancellor leaves end June but is still letting staff now what he thinks

Yesterday Professor Wellings had a go at the campus branch of the National Tertiary Education Union for a survey which he rates an “F”.

The comrades invited staff to answer questions about UoW after a decade of Wellings and offer comments. The responses were not enthusiastic, the best positive rating was 26 per cent for “supporting research.”

To which Professor Wellings responds that such surveys “are flawed by design, method, and analysis” and provides examples rebutting its conclusions.

The NTEU and Professor Wellings have not always been best friends. There was a long-running dispute over the university accepting course funding from the Ramsay Western Civilisation Centre. And last year a management COVID-19 savings-plan opposed by the NTEU was rejected by staff before they accepted a joint proposal from the university and campus unions. Last month the union attacked management changes to the membership of academic senate, suggesting the university was not treating it “as the peak body for academic matters.”  (This last argument isn’t over).