I think the management did all the adjustment after it was caught paying full-time pay to someone who was seldom here. Thanks mate

PHMC director contract is renewed last week and he got a huge raise…Beleive me its damn huge..

(deleted comment: absentee heads and directors. do you know how many, chairman?

From auditor posted on ugc 17-09-2011 [20:02:36]:

How many absentee heads and directors are there on the payroll of CityU? The PHMC director has been with the university for almost as long as the president. He started as the director and professor. When people started to notice his absence and other abuses, his director’s title was taken over by an acting director and his professor’s title changed to visiting professor. The management did all the adjustment after it was caught paying full-time pay to someone who was seldom here.

The head of the new department was hired in 2011, also by the president, from Michigan but this full-time head is very seldom in the office or in Hong Kong. Question is, his bosses (the assistant provost and the dean of college) work in the same department and know he is not doing his job. They don’t say anything, because they don’t care or they don’t dare.

How many more absentee heads and directors are there in the university? Does their privilege (get paid but do little or no work) come from their friend, the president. Are they above PBPR? Or are they under the impression that they do not have to do the work they are hired to do as long as CityU gets to count their papers and citations as its own to blast the ranking into to the top 100?

Is this the way the university, paid by the taxpayers’ money, prepare for the 334 reform? Wasting public fund is one thing; trashing the education of our children will not be tolerated.

Mr. Chairman, is this the future of governance in Hong Kong?

There are other jarring examples of mismanagement. The CityU management cut one engineering department into two departments several months ago. The President hired another friend of his to head the new one. The FoP has done much damage within a short time even though he is hardly ever in town.

What is wrong with this university? What is wrong with this president? Who has taken the Hong Kong taxpayers for a ride by treating the University as a (private) welfare institution?