(10-15-2015 09:16 AM)wavefan12 Wrote:  

(10-15-2015 08:32 AM)upstater1 Wrote:  

(10-14-2015 04:10 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(10-14-2015 12:37 PM)DrBox Wrote:  

(10-14-2015 07:45 AM)Zipfanatik Wrote:  It's a national trend to bring in a CEO/business type as president to provide fiscal management, rather than an accomplished PhD education administrator for academic cred. Especially with the public schools which are receiving less support from squeezed state budgets; rising costs of course affect all schools.

U of Iowa picked a non-academic..COO of Boston Market I believe. Iowa Faculty immediate delivered a no-confidence vote to its BOT. Faculty don't like it, but it's the trend.

Tulane's provost was finalist for that job; but now I believe he's out at Tulane via the housecleaning.

Academics don't like being held to corporate standards and productivity. Weird world imho.

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Probably because the guy doesn't now WTF he's doing.

Selling chicken is different from research.

His name is Michael Bernstein and I was his grad TA for a class. He earns his pay and works his a$$ off.

His comment was re the Boston Market guy, not Bernstein. Note "selling chicken"