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December 03, 2008 01:41 AM UTC
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“Blasts” anything that doesn’t fit his narrow, little, shrieky agenda.
I hope CSU picks Karl Rove to be President.
Why does so much of modern conservatism seem to sound like, “What can we do to piss off liberals?”
But then we’d all just hate him. 🙂
because Huttner’s gang did such a great job in stopping Bruce Benson here at CU…
does not mean they were wrong. And putting someone who is both ineffective and anti-science like Allard will be very harmful to CSU.
The fact that they are even considering this is indicitive of how this state does not value education in terms of how they manage it.
it’s that on issues like this they’re, again, a day late and a dollar short.
This regularly scheduled meeting of the BoG has been on the CSU System website for weeks if not months. It’s been what, 3 weeks since Allard’s name started floating around this? And finally now Progress Now gets around to complaining? Now they want to start a petition to take to the BoG the day before they meet?! Hell, BoG committees are meeting TODAY in Denver and PN is just getting around to being outraged?!
To their credit, at least they’re not waiting until Allard is the sole finalist to say anything like they did with Benson…
Not only does the state not have it’s education priorities in order, neither do groups like PN when it comes to campaigning against this stuff.
Or were they just clueless for the last month? Neither answer speaks well of them…
They’re irrelevant. Like a Greek Chorus that’s talking about another drama altogether.
They had a press release out within 24 hours after Allard had his name floated, and all the coverage at the time had quotes. They blasted out some kind of petition to their list around that time too.
It’s been fascinating watching ProgressNow evolve and become more sophisticated over the past couple of cycles. Their current ability to get press and shape debate speaks for itself — they get results.
They’ve certainly been more organized and coherent on bashing Allard than anyone from the faculty or student body at CSU.
Relevant to you guys because you’re far lefties and are the exact people that PN caters to. In the mind of the middle, they’re wackos.
Allard was a vet. CSU is one of the top Veterinary schools in the country. His main job would be to raise money, and he’d be good at it.
I know you just celebrated a collective ass-kicking for the ages, but don’t let it cause you to overreach. The pendulum has started to slow already…
(Was that ominous enough?)
I’m fine with a very conservative individual who 1) would actually do something, and 2) Believes and supports the idea of scientific inquiry.
Allard is neither of those.
I doubt they have the name rec to be rated anything like that. Their effect is indirect by driving stories and upsetting the right’s media strategies. The fact they get under your skin is a sign of their effectiveness.
Allard may have gone to CSU, but CSU isn’t under any obligation to give him an office and a secretary just because he went there. And if Allard’s Senate career is any indication, he would be an indifferent and mediocre fundraiser and would do a crappy job of representing the institution.
I also have a feeling that the field of veterinary medicine left Wayne Allard behind a couple of decades ago. I don’t think the CSU Vet School needs Allard to continue building its well-deserved national prominence.
in Colorado decide to use our University Chancellor positions as “Golden Parachutes” for out of work politicians?
Is that really good for higher education in this state?
If so, any suggestions on where Marilyn Musgrave should end up?
along the line of research animal at CSU….
I truly loathe the woman (a term used losely to describe her).
the backgrounds of the President/CEO’s of CSU’s ‘land-grant’ peer institutions — like UC-Davis, Virginia Tech, Washington State, etc. Peer institution comparisons are used all the time by the university, the legislature and the Commission on Higher Education. These are the institutions for which CSU must compete for grant funding, faculty, graduate and undergraduate students.
The peers are listed in some recent CCHE reports. And I was going to do this today, but didn’t have time to look up more than one.
The current Chancellor (the head guy for the campus) of UC-Davis, the land grant university in California, is an accomplished teacher and research in an academic field, had several administrative jobs at different university in the U.S. before assuming this position and has been in that position for over ten years. The Davis web site says he’s stepping down next June.
Stature, experience, longevity… these are great qualities to have in a university administrator. Davis’ upper administration is a very serious and productive bunch of people and serve as stewards of its instructional missions and leader its ever-expanding research mission.
I’m betting that you don’t have many Chamber of Commerce presidents, former State Senators, and former whatever-Doug-Jones-was at the helm of these peers unless they have walked a significant teaching-and-research walk in higher education and have served serious trials as administrators in these behemoth institutions.
Sure you have the David Borens and a handful of other Senate retirees serving as University presidents but they are not the norm and their successes are limited. Shaking the money tree is the most often-heard justification… but where’s the beef? Politicians are good at fundraising when they have a carrot to dangle — access and the ability to advance the interests of private political donors. But this doesn’t follow them into retirement and the claims of successful fundraising by former politicos is mostly hype. If these guys (Allard, etc.)really loved these institutions, their service might come to better ends if they served on Boards of Governors where their prestige can burnish the legislature’s and the public’s image of universities.
I think these guys are just not guys who take higher education seriously or (when they do) take it as a serious threat to their control and the arrogant “Andy-and- Barney” lack of ambition that one always trips over in Colorado. I think we’re looking at a partisan attempt to hold on to CSU, after a decade of battling to capture it under Presidents Yates and Penley. If the institution suffers (and I can’t see that they really care too much about that possibility) why not? Seems like a species of the ‘wrecking crew’ mentality that reached its highest expression in the Bush-Cheney-Rove-Gonzales years in DC.
It would make a great diary, especially if you give a couple more examples and statistics. For example, how many times was a partisan hack with no graduate degree appointed President of a University after a failed search? I can think of one. Maybe two, if Senator Allard gets his wish.
Washington State, TX A&M, and VT. All three had doctorates, had been faculty at several institutions, administrators (Deans and VPs), and two of the three (TAMU and VT) had really distinguished research records. Certainly Allard doesn’t seem to fit in this company.
Allard has a DVM from CSU. Unless things were different in 1968, that’s a graduate degree…