Pratt SILS is so depressing

How can Pratt SILS market classes like “Usability” and “Information Architecture” while simultaneously having a disastrous website and an on-line registration system that doesn’t work semester after semester? What a bait and switch. Too bad the administration, especially the Dean, are so good at talking and so bad at understanding and doing. Especially doing. No one is interested in the Dean’s long winded explanations of why she can’t do or change something. I’d like to actually see some comprehension in her eyes before she begins yet another soliloquy.

Readers – where will Pratt SILS be in the school ranking in five years under the deanship of Tula? I look forward to your predictions.

The Thing That Made My Eyeballs Bleed Today

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. What do these photos on the Pratt SILS site say about our school?

Police Car with Hood Up: Welcome to the Neighborhood!

Students Crowded Around One Computer in Sad Common Area.

Yes, This is the Cyber Cafe We’ve Been Crowing About. No, Don’t Bother Bringing a Laptop Because You Will Have Nowhere Else to Use It.

Further Proof of Our Cutting Edge Technological Skills: We Can Use the Time Stamp Feature. Sort Of.

I don’t even want to get into the sad photos of our faculty because I don’t want anyone to think it is in any way a criticism of them. Seriously, we have some great faculty and they are represented in such a shoddy way. The faculty must cringe thinking about their friends and former colleagues googling them. I know I would.

The photos on and design of the faculty page send a message to current and potential students, as well as alumni and other library and information science schools — Pratt SILS doesn’t incorporate technology or design into its website or the curriculum.