New President at Iowa
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One thing I do like about him is that he says he is going to be hands off with the athletics
No, the only idiots out there are people like you who have a high and mighty attitude they know what kind of job someone will do when they haven't even started in the job yet.
If you don't want to support the guy, fine. However, my hunch is the BOR and Harreld have much more intelligence than do you.
I get pissed at someone who doesn't even know a person and right out of the gate calls him an idiot. Again, you are the idiot. ANd on top of that, he's the new University president despite protesters like you.
First, Where did I call the new president an Idiot? Second, you are calling me an idiot and don't know me so is it ok to do that or not? You are confusing me. Third, how am I protesting him? Fourth, are mentally ok?
Maybe Iowa could hire a Prez that can't figure out how to prevent research fraud.
Naw isu has cornered the market on that one.
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Good grief man. Seriously - do you really believe what your wrote here is accurate? Do you really believe the BOR would hire someone as unimpressive as you just described?
And by the way - in your crazy post you allege the plan/goal is somehow to cut funding from the state to the students. Why would the BOR want that? What possible advantage would they get by cutting more student funding? Do you think they personally benefit in some way? Maybe, just maybe, the BOR is tired of seeing the students getting railroaded by the out of control escalation of student tuition and realize it's time to bring in someone who knows how to create revenue in an organization - someone who can actually help the university find efficiencies instead of continuing to force the next generation to mortgage its future.
But hey - that's just me. Of course we could continue to do the same thing we've done the past two decades -- and just raise the tuition on the students some more. That seems to be all the rage among the current academic administration community.
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BirdistheWord
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Wow, the guy was financially secure after a very successful career at Kraft, Boston Market, IBM (major turnaround) and lecturing at Harvard B-School. I am pretty sure he could have had a "job" if he wanted one. Or he could have had some cushy, slow paced public sector job with low accountability. Yeah, that's the ticket!
Exactly. These guys must be very desperate to try to discredit him with such nonsense. The guy ran strategy for IBM - which is a company that has 380,000 employees and $92 billion in revenue last year. What he did at IBM is studied in cases at B-schools. (see: Organizational Ambidexterity: IBM and Emerging Business Opportunities)
I have no idea how this will turn out; I can't know. What worries me, though, is since it seems there is much opposition to this hire among the UI faculty, etc, that we'll see good people leave.
I admit I've been away from this recently. For people that know, why is the BOR seemingly resistant to giving money to the states top research institution? And, is it true, that this guy had around 3% support among the UI community, while the other finalists had around 87%?
I just don't wanna see the school I love get hurt academically.
I admit I've been away from this recently. For people that know, why is the BOR seemingly resistant to giving money to the states top research institution? And, is it true, that this guy had around 3% support among the UI community, while the other finalists had around 87%?
I just don't wanna see the school I love get hurt academically.
Obamas no idiot.
Liar and criminal would be more accurate, but that basically all pro politicians.
This. It is kind of the same with politicians. The bad ones always think the solution is just higher taxes. It is lazy and thr equivalent of malpractice.
I give the BOR alot of credit for going a different route.
The concern is with the Regents' plan to shift funding from UI to ISU and UNI based upon the percentage of Iowa resident undergraduate students each enrolls. Since UI attracts a much higher percentage of out-of-state and foreign students, as well as almost all of the professional students (medicine, dentistry, law, pharmacy, etc.), the formula works to the profound disadvantage of UI. I read somewhere that the plan would cost UI $47 million over five years. (The Iowa legislature has temporarily blocked the plan.) So, I think the folks at UI wanted someone who would be an advocate for the University and resist the defunding. Herrald said he would act in what he saw as the best interest of the State. The only problem with that is that ISU and UNI have leaders who are acting as strong advocates for their institutions, and UI will not have such an advocate.
Also, the hiring of faculty is highly competitive. (It's a little like football recruiting; negative recruiting occurs.) Although there are plenty of PHDs available, relatively few of them qualify for positions at institutions of the quality of UI. I would expect that the University's competitors will use this hire to suggest that, with an OJT MBA at the helm, the University is now business-oriented and no longer seeking to be an upper-tier research institution. We probably won't know for several years whether that has any effect, but my guess is that it will.
