Re: Persee in danger. Please support it.

[jean.claude.guedon@umontreal.ca]

The best I can reconstruct is that it is based on individual 
conflicts making use of institutional politics: apparently, one 
individual (the U. president) is seeking to harm the career of 
another person (a former president) by attacking one of his more 
important projects. It appears very petty and very nasty.

The official excuse is that it costs too much and the 
university's role is too limited.

The official manoeuvre is presented as a transfer to another 
institution, in this case an umbrella institution for all the 
universities in the Lyons area. The problem is that this 
structure was conceived to help coordinate university endeavours, 
not to manage projects directly. It does not have the mandate to 
do so; it does not have the room, equipment and experience to do 
so. This will scatter a team that has worked on the project for 
now eight years.

All in all, a stupid and sad story.

Jean-Claude

Le vendredi 11 mars 2011 a 16:34 -0500, Joseph Esposito a ecrit :
> Jean-Claude,
>
> Can you shed some light on why the support from the University of
> Lyon is being removed from this project?
>
> Joe Esposito
>