Holy Crap: Harreld Named New UI President

[Huey Grey]

And I will be very happy to pick up where you left off. I am nearing a point in my life where I will be able to make substantial contributions to my university as well. I will never agree with everything they do but at no point outside of breaking a law or something equally as egregious will I go all high and mighty and pull my support. Some of you act like we just sold the university itself to McDonald's and will be officially changing our name to Evil Business University. There are thousands of great people at the university and I will not punish them for a self righteous I think I know everything stance. Take your precious money and your ego and go big fellow, your want of bee lobbyist influence is not wanted or needed. Go Hawks!

I don't think he's a terrible choice because he's business. IMO, one of Iowa's biggest weak spots is branding itself. Seems like it has just given up and decided to do the most stale and safe marketing possible. So if we, for example, would have gotten the marketing chief from Apple or Google, I would be excited. But IBM marketing is the same stale and safe stuff we're already doing. How does it help?

I hope this guy proves me wrong, but I'm not all that hopeful he will. His record is the marketing version of Kirk Ferentz.

 

[Chewback]

Mason came from purdue.

Nuff said.

 

[HallofFame]

I don't think he's a terrible choice because he's business. IMO, one of Iowa's biggest weak spots is branding itself. Seems like it has just given up and decided to do the most stale and safe marketing possible. So if we, for example, would have gotten the marketing chief from Apple or Google, I would be excited. But IBM marketing is the same stale and safe stuff we're already doing. How does it help?

I hope this guy proves me wrong, but I'm not all that hopeful he will. His record is the marketing version of Kirk Ferentz.

That is more than fair enough criticism.

 

[JRHawk2003]

They are literally losing MILLIONS with all the empty seats this year. Look for more of the same next year if Captain Gumchew is back.

The athletic department is in the black, mainly because of the BTN. Are they maximizing revenue? No. I don't want to turn this into another bash KF thread, there are plenty of those on the football board. I do get a kick out of the haters however who think someone can just wave a hand and a great coach will come and we will go 10-2 or so every year.

 

[icu81222]

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Um, no. basically, he isn't qualified for the job, and those who will have to work with him didn't have their opinions taken into consideration.

What made Obama qualified to run the most powerful country in the history of the world?

And you still support that dumba$$ too. what does this say about YOUR poor judgement? Maybe you should sit out the opinions on who is or is not qualified to run things.

 

[JRHawk2003]

Why does a non stakeholder care so much who leads the UI? As long as you can watch the Hawkeyes on TV, whats it to you?

 

[icu81222]

Why does a non stakeholder care so much who leads the UI? As long as you can watch the Hawkeyes on TV, whats it to you?

You don't know a thing about me. Do you. ?

 

[Old_wrestling_fan]

Then why go through the facade of a hiring committee, faculty survey and community meeting?

That's a good question. To me, one oft repeated mistake made by management everywhere is to communicate that someone will be part of a decision making process, so as to satisfy them, and then in reality...they were never going to be in the actual "decision making loop". Facade is an appropriate word IMO.

Now then, I don't know what was said to the UI "community" in terms of their role in selecting the next president, maybe people assumed too much, maybe the real decision makers sent out false signals to placate people, etc...but there is no freaking way that dozens, perhaps hundreds, or even more, people were truly going to be a real part of the decision to hire the next president.

Perhaps the "open" search notion was a fool's errand from the get go.

 

[Old_wrestling_fan]

You know, part of me feels sorry for this guy. Although making $600,000 a year tempers that a lot. He got in the middle of a war between Regents and the UI Faculty. Its a no win situation. There could be a no confidence vote by the faculty senate before he even takes office.

If that is true, then shame on the "community" for never really giving a newcomer a chance to prove themselves.

 

[icu81222]

Why does a non stakeholder care so much who leads the UI? As long as you can watch the Hawkeyes on TV, whats it to you?

As a non-gun owner, why should you care about 2A

 

[JRHawk2003]

You don't know a thing about me. Do you. ?

OK. I will ask you yet again; Are you a UI grad or have some other involvement in the University beyond being a Hawkeye fan?

 

[icu81222]

If that is true, then shame on the "community" for never really giving a newcomer a chance to prove themselves.

they don't care. Liberals are the least tolerant people in our society. You WILL conform to their beliefs, wishes and ideology or you WILL be destroyed.

We see it every day

 

[icu81222]

OK. I will ask you yet again; Are you a UI grad or have some other involvement in the University beyond being a Hawkeye fan?

Sorry, I don't disclose personal information to anonymous message board posters. Particularly ones with a history of being unstable.

 

[JRHawk2003]

Sorry, I don't disclose personal information to anonymous message board posters. Particularly ones with a history of being unstable.

Yeah, that's real personal...You can call me unstable if you want and attack me...It just seems to me you are afraid to admit you have no college at all. Its ok, really....

Whats it like to see the world through a simplistic left/right lens?

 

[JRHawk2003]

they don't care. Liberals are the least tolerant people in our society. You WILL conform to their beliefs, wishes and ideology or you WILL be destroyed.

We see it every day

Who exactly have liberals "destroyed"? Can you please provide a list?

 

[icu81222]

Who exactly have liberals "destroyed"? Can you please provide a list?

You haven't been paying attention, have you?

Chik Fil A is one very good example of someone the left tried to destroy. Of course, it back fired on them. It is going on every day, all over the country.

How about the people who own a pizza shop in Indiana? They didn't even decline service to anyone yet the left tried to destroy them.

Bakers, florists, photographers? People invited to speak on college campuses that have different views?

You aren't very good at this, are you?

 

[JRHawk2003]

Chick Fil-A isn't destroyed. Its running very well in Cedar Rapids last I looked. I didn't see any protesters there either. The others I assume deal with the gay marriage issue. Thats a pretty narrow single issue rather than a broad spectrum of beliefs. Lots of people speak on campuses, including the UI. Heck, Brother Jed spoke at the UI for years. Not sure who they tried to "destroy"...

I like Clint Eastwood and Bruce Willis and both have different political views than my own on some issues. It does not mean that I think they are bad people or don't enjoy their movies.

You over generalize a lot and seem very paranoid. I feel bad for you.

 

[icu81222]

JRHawk2003 said: ↑
Who exactly have liberals "destroyed"? Can you please provide a list?

icu81222 provides a list

JR: "but that's not fair"

icu8122 provides more:

 

[JRHawk2003]

Ohhhhh so thats how it is....take a fringe group and lump everyone together. Got it. I never said it wasn't fair. Stupid, That's another straw man. You love the straw men I notice. Its hard to tell if you are real or just playing. Who knows?


Also, you are defending a public employee who belongs to a union? Wow...wonders will never cease I guess.

 

[icu81222]

Also, you are defending a public employee who belongs to a union? Wow...wonders will never cease I guess.

Wait, I thought you said I was blinded by bias. Gasp....

Are you tired of getting owned?

You asked me to site examples of liberals trying to destroy others. I gave you many. there are many more. Do you want those too? (I could go on about the IRS targeting scandal if you like)

and, to stay with the topic of the OP....The liberals are already trying to tear the new U of I president apart. While we speak, professors and other democrat/liberals are fishing far and wide to try to dig up anything they can to discredit him. To try and get him booted before he even starts. You have even said as much.

It's the liberal way. They do it nearly every time they don't get their way or there is someone or something that they oppose or dislike.

 

[h-hawk]

And that's when tailgatIng went to hell. You make a strong argument that Purdue is infiltrating.

And as already pointed out, the U of I rankings have dropped under Mason. This is a conspiracy!

"They're here already...the Boilermakers are here!"

 

[WORTHYWISH]

 

[David1979]

Wait, I thought you said I was blinded by bias. Gasp....

Are you tired of getting owned?

You asked me to site examples of liberals trying to destroy others. I gave you many. there are many more. Do you want those too? (I could go on about the IRS targeting scandal if you like)

and, to stay with the topic of the OP....The liberals are already trying to tear the new U of I president apart. While we speak, professors and other democrat/liberals are fishing far and wide to try to dig up anything they can to discredit him. To try and get him booted before he even starts. You have even said as much.

It's the liberal way. They do it nearly every time they don't get their way or there is someone or something that they oppose or dislike.

lol

 

[JRHawk2003]

lol

Its a troll job. I will admit, he sticks to character well.

I am thinking he is also someone who used to post here under a different name

 

[cigaretteman]

The union representing the 2,300 graduate employees at the University of Iowa issued a blistering critique Thursday of the Iowa Board of Regents' selection of former IBM executive Bruce Harreld as the 21st UI president: .

"The Board of Regents' unanimous election of Bruce Harreld as president of the University of Iowa shows how far the Branstad-appointed board is willing to go to destroy public education at the University of Iowa. Harreld is completely unqualified for the position and his behavior during the public forum was deeply disturbing — from saying that he learned about the University of Iowa by reading Wikipedia to falsifying his credentials on his curriculum vitae. The hiring process was hijacked by the Board of Regents, resulting in a breakdown of the shared governance system with the University of Iowa faculty.

"This action by the Board of Regents is a clear continuation of their attempts to defund and defame the University of Iowa, while siphoning more money from the students they purport to serve. The board's hiring of Harreld underscores their view of the university as a business rather than an educational institution. As graduate student employees who teach the majority of classes at the university and conduct much of the research, we are opposed to a president who cannot effectively advocate for raising the quality of education at the University of Iowa, and who is neither qualified, nor equipped to fill the position for which the Board of Regents has appointed him.

"We support the faculty in their efforts to advocate for the appointment of a qualified, experienced president at the University of Iowa."

http://www.press-citizen.com/story/...choice-ui-president-harreld-regents/71698916/

 

[UKGrad93]

How much will Harreld's wife/husband get for salary from UI?

 

[icu81222]

Yeah, Rastetter wants to defund and defame UI. Yep. We normally see people donate $5 million right before implementing their plan to undermine it all.

Sounds legit.

Who wrote that? A fifth grader? What a juvenile hiss fit.

 

[icu81222]

lol

Go on.....

 

[DogBoyRy]

And how doe s a university president fix this? Besides firing a dean? And it seem like anyone should be able to do that.

Easy
Cut funding for crap like the Labor Center, etc. and all the other liberal bullshit stuff coming out of there.
Dean disagrees - there's the door.
Really - checkout the website for the crap they spew out.

 

[ANYCHawk]

Easy
Cut funding for crap like the Labor Center, etc. and all the other liberal bullshit stuff coming out of there.
Dean disagrees - there's the door.
Really - checkout the website for the crap they spew out.

So what I said.

And I really don't think you understand how a good University President. It certainly isn't to micromanage one department because of one story about finding a job.

Oh and cutting that Labor Center will save all of about $10. How is that $10 gonna help those 10 percent kids land jobs at big city firms?

 

[MikeyHawk]

Yeah, that's real personal...You can call me unstable if you want and attack me...It just seems to me you are afraid to admit you have no college at all. Its ok, really....

Whats it like to see the world through a simplistic left/right lens?

What is it like? you define your own question

 

[JRHawk2003]

If I was like icu, I would basically equate Fred Phelps group to all conservatives. I know some conservative folk who are good people. I dont make product choices based off my political beliefs. My objection to this guy is a total lack of administration in anything but the private sector. He has not been a CEO either. If he had a mixed resume with some public and some private, I would feel differently. I would not say that his resume is overwhelming either, I hope this doesn't blow up, but it could.

 

[icu81222]

If I was like icu, I would basically equate Fred Phelps group to all conservatives. I know some conservative folk who are good people. I dont make product choices based off my political beliefs. My objection to this guy is a total lack of administration in anything but the private sector. He has not been a CEO either. If he had a mixed resume with some public and some private, I would feel differently. I would not say that his resume is overwhelming either, I hope this doesn't blow up, but it could.

You have already established that I was going outside "my side" to defend a union person. Swing and miss. AGAIN.

you asked for a list to defend what I said. I provided a very long list. You keep crying. BAU.

Take your medicine and go lay by your dish. On second thought, go make me a sammich beotch.

 

[JRHawk2003]

No one on your list was destroyed. You keep making up things.

However I know you are just playing troll...so you can drop it any time.

 

[icu81222]

Yeah, several business were destroyed by leftists harassing and protesting their businesses. Several closed.

Darrin Wilson's life has been destroyed and Businesses were burned to the ground in Ferguson and Baltimore all based on a "hands up dont shoot" lie that went all the way to the top of the democrat party.

How about that guy who went to jail for over a year for Hillary and Obama's Benghazi "video" lie?

Ask the businesses destroyed by the occupy wall street riots. I am sure they were happy about it.

How many LEO'S have been executed based on the "black lies matter " scam promoted by liberals?

Stop digging. You suck at this. Huey sucks too but at least Huey is a big enough liar that he even believes his own lies and thus flails about hopelessly enough to at least argue.

 

[JRHawk2003]

But then again, its just a troll job so no need to take you seriously. I know you are making this all up.No one is that dense.

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

This is the correct response.

 

[Lone Clone]

I think thats the goal of the regents.

This is not a matter of who is best for the university. They dont care. This is about going after people you perceive as your political opponents. The regents were not supposed to be political. Well, thats gone. I realize TB and the Repubs set that agenda now, but the door will swing the other way eventually, and does a BoR under a Dem Governor go after the farm funding at ISU because rural Iowa is more conservative? This is a very bad precedent.

You people slay me. The sense of entitlement is beyond belief. The Regents have been trying to get the U of I to act responsibly for a couple of decades now, pretty much without success. The folks in Iowa City think if they cry and whine enough, they'll get their way -- and you can't blame them for thinking that, because it's what history shows. Most recently, hey got their pawns in the Legislature to overturn the Regents and an outside consultant.

If the new guy brings some real-world experience to ivory tower that is academia in Iowa City, the school and the state will be better off in the long run.

 

[Metuo Accipiter]

From Harreld's resume;

"Led the Business Transformation team that streamlined operations and re-integrated the global organization. Led IBM’s strategy unit that was responsible for the formulation and execution of the company’s overall strategy. Created and led the firm’s Emerging Business Organization that produced more than $15 billion in new, profitable revenue across 20 new businesses. Led IBM’s Global Marketing organization that was responsible for demand generation, coordination of go-to-market activities, and strengthening IBM’s brand, which is one of the most valued brands in the world."

Looking at that it appears to me he has great experience managing strategy -- something the university sorely needs. As for him helping guide a research institution - seems like he helped guide an institution that is closely tied to research and understands how to fund/monetize inventions. If you've not been paying attention -- monetizing new technologies is a BIG focus of the university (and most research universities) these days. It's a priority to help pay for the research -- and maybe, just maybe a guy like him can help solve the tuition escalation crisis.

IBM's wiki page states this:

"IBM has 12 research laboratories worldwide, bundled into IBM Research. As of 2013 the company held the record for most patents generated by a business for 22 consecutive years. Its employees have garnered five Nobel Prizes, six Turing Awards, tenNational Medals of Technology, and five National Medals of Science."

 

[Metuo Accipiter]

And for you folks that are freaking out about how unqualified he is -- here is a paper discussing what Harreld did at IBM - it's co-authored by Stanford and Harvard professors. You'll find a considerable amount of papers/research done by these profs -- and it appears in large part to be influenced by this 2006 paper. You can say that what Harreld did at IBM set the standard for the modern research/innovation company,

http://www.exed.hbs.edu/assets/documents/dynamic-capabilities.pdf