Comments on: The Case of the Coup at UVA http://thebillfold.com/2012/06/the-case-of-the-coup-at-uva/ Everything About Money You Were Too Polite To Ask Sat, 18 May 2013 16:35:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: crickethill http://thebillfold.com/2012/06/the-case-of-the-coup-at-uva/#comment-7485 crickethill Thu, 21 Jun 2012 02:37:23 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=6618#comment-7485 The worst of it is the secrecy. I can take personnel decisions for what they are, even if they're poorly informed ones. But at a public university, ain't no excuse for the kind of total lack of transparency we're seeing in this situation. I sat and waited out the Board of Visitors (pretentious goddamn term) in the lobby of UVA's Rotunda with the rest of the Charlottesville press corps the night of their epic meeting, and the whole thing just felt ridiculous. Just spit it out, y'all: You're a bunch of CEOs who have no clue how to run an academic institution. The only nice bit is that despite the Board's trying to time this so that nobody would be around to freak out, everybody came together to freak out. The worst of it is the secrecy. I can take personnel decisions for what they are, even if they’re poorly informed ones. But at a public university, ain’t no excuse for the kind of total lack of transparency we’re seeing in this situation. I sat and waited out the Board of Visitors (pretentious goddamn term) in the lobby of UVA’s Rotunda with the rest of the Charlottesville press corps the night of their epic meeting, and the whole thing just felt ridiculous. Just spit it out, y’all: You’re a bunch of CEOs who have no clue how to run an academic institution.

The only nice bit is that despite the Board’s trying to time this so that nobody would be around to freak out, everybody came together to freak out.

]]> By: Ed@twitter http://thebillfold.com/2012/06/the-case-of-the-coup-at-uva/#comment-7245 Ed@twitter Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:37:23 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=6618#comment-7245 ugh some faculty are already resigning.... http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/06/19/comp-sci-prof-william-wulfs-resignation-letter/ ugh some faculty are already resigning….

http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/06/19/comp-sci-prof-william-wulfs-resignation-letter/

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