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Regents name first of four finalists for UI president

I don't think we have that luck. They'll make another uninspiring choice. Mason set the bar low for the university and the Regents will see this as a benchmark to expect less from their choice.
Scoff scoffity scoff scoff. Scoffery scoffing scoff scoffed scoffity...........scoff.

scoff:
- an expression of mockery, derision, doubt, or derisive scorn; jeer.

P.S. don't feel too bad. You're not the only one that has this problem.
 
Bet I make more than both of you. Maybe combined.
Yeah, ya know what...............




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His eyes seem to be slightly (just ever so slightly) too close to one another for his face...I don't trust him.
 
I hate to generalize and jump to conclusions, but I'm not sure what running a private college with under 3,000 students, no medical campus, no graduate or professional programs, and a small handful of marginal DIII athletic programs has to do with the University of Iowa. Was Wartburg's president too busy for an interview or something?



Bond....Oberlin College is one of the GREAT liberal arts colleges in the country.
I would think that Kr islov has an excellent idea of what a college education should be and what the direction of the U of I should be headed. I bet he's an "idea man" who has a skill at fund raising, too.
You sure as hell don't have to be currently employed by a "big college" to understand (and know) what needs to be done.
 
Bond....Oberlin College is one of the GREAT liberal arts colleges in the country.
I would think that Kr islov has an excellent idea of what a college education should be and what the direction of the U of I should be headed. I bet he's an "idea man" who has a skill at fund raising, too.
You sure as hell don't have to be currently employed by a "big college" to understand (and know) what needs to be done.
His experience at Michigan gave him more than enough understanding of how a large Big Ten university operates.

Those who keep saying he's obviously some "liberal loon" because he was president of Oberlin have absolutely no clue how the upper level administration of colleges and universities operate. It's quite similar to the corporate world in many respects.
 
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Bond....Oberlin College is one of the GREAT liberal arts colleges in the country.
I would think that Kr islov has an excellent idea of what a college education should be and what the direction of the U of I should be headed. I bet he's an "idea man" who has a skill at fund raising, too.
You sure as hell don't have to be currently employed by a "big college" to understand (and know) what needs to be done.

So by that rationale, you'd interview the basketball coach from Wisconsin-Whitewater for the head football job at Iowa because he is a good coach and has good ideas about running a college team?
 
His experience at Michigan gave him more than enough understanding of how a large Big Ten university operates.

Those who keep saying he's obviously some "liberal loon" because he was president of Oberlin have absolutely no clue how the upper level administration of colleges and universities operate. It's quite similar to the corporate world in many respects.

He was a lawyer there. I don't know a lot of corporate attorneys that are elevated to the CEO level, at least not at a similar sized company.
 
So by that rationale, you'd interview the basketball coach from Wisconsin-Whitewater for the head football job at Iowa because he is a good coach and has good ideas about running a college team?

Perhaps. Wisconsin refused to interview Bo for a couple of job rotations at UWMadison because "he was a D-3 coach at Plaatsville." See what happened when they gave him an opportunity.
If a guy can coach, I'm inclined to let him coach if he can qualify.
 
He was a lawyer there. I don't know a lot of corporate attorneys that are elevated to the CEO level, at least not at a similar sized company.

Since you don't know how major universities work, that's a huge benefit. As general counsel he would have a hand in everything from real easte transactions, to lawsuits over tenure, to contract negotiates, to labor law, to student explosions...basically every area an administration would touch.
 
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