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Post by Class of '83 on Feb 4, 2017 13:08:34 GMT -5
This isn't necessarily a sports topic but I think it is very important to athletics going forward at Wright State. We need a president committed to athletics if we want our athletic department to move in a positive direction. We are down to 3 candidates. The first of which recently toured both WSU campuses and was interviewed below. I would be concerned for athletics if we hired him. He seems more concerned with cutting spending to balance the budget and make education cheaper for students. I want a president that is interested in growing the university, not someone that wants to make us a cheap glorified community college for local students. Wright State presidential candidate Dennis Shields says his focus is on students webapp2.wright.edu/web1/newsroom/2017/02/03/wright-state-presidential-candidate-dennis-shields-says-his-focus-is-on-students/ |
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Post by Class of '83 on Feb 4, 2017 13:10:56 GMT -5
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Post by Class of '83 on Feb 4, 2017 13:12:21 GMT -5
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Post by Raider Alumni on Feb 5, 2017 19:44:24 GMT -5
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Post by Class of '83 on Feb 6, 2017 21:35:46 GMT -5
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Post by mrose on Feb 8, 2017 12:38:33 GMT -5
I'm curious how these 3 became the finalists for the position. None of them have any experience with a D I athletic program and more importantly none of them have any experience with a teaching medical school within their respective institution. Currently they all have leadership positions with smaller, rural, non-commuter schools...The antithesis of Wright State. I'm not sure how that experience translates to WSU.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2017 14:57:54 GMT -5
I don't like the smell of this ... www.theguardianonline.com/news/2017/02/08/chancellor-dennis-shields-moves-to-fire-whistleblower-professor/Chancellor Dennis Shields moves to fire whistleblower professor The first presidential candidate who visited the Wright State University campus is facing speculation after making statements of the firing of a University of Wisconsin-Platteville faculty member. Sabina Burton, associate professor of criminal justice, assisted a student who felt sexually harassed by another professor. Burton claims the administration robbed her of due process rights. Four years later, Burton faces the threat of losing her teaching position. |
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Post by ohiopirate on Feb 9, 2017 17:28:36 GMT -5
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Post by Class of '83 on Feb 9, 2017 21:13:39 GMT -5
I'm curious how these 3 became the finalists for the position. None of them have any experience with a D I athletic program and more importantly none of them have any experience with a teaching medical school within their respective institution. Currently they all have leadership positions with smaller, rural, non-commuter schools...The antithesis of Wright State. I'm not sure how that experience translates to WSU. The firm we hired to run this sucked. |
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Post by Cheerfan on Feb 9, 2017 21:30:05 GMT -5
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Post by Raider Grad on Feb 9, 2017 21:37:58 GMT -5
There is no way in hell we should even think about considering Shields. It's embarrassing we even interviewed the schmuck. I really don't like the other 2 candidates either. Why in the hell aren't we looking at someone who is already a president of a university. We are looking at administrators at small schools. We should at the minimum be able to recruit standing university presidents at smaller schools.
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Post by mrose on Feb 10, 2017 11:15:48 GMT -5
My confidence with the Board of Trustees is deeply shaken. It is their responsibility to know what is going on within the University/Administration and to oversee their directions are carried out according to their instructions. Yet over just the last couple of years we witnessed the following:
*Debate Debacle
*U.S. Visa abuse/manipulation
*Budget Problems
Now we are presented 3 weak finalists for the Presidency and one of them has potential legal baggage he could bring with him...SMH.
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Post by raiderrunt on Feb 10, 2017 14:22:50 GMT -5
I do not think you could find three candidates for WSU president worse than these three.
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Post by wsupunjabi on Feb 10, 2017 14:39:31 GMT -5
I agree. All these are from smaller schools too. I think we are a big and reputed enough to get a someone of the rank provosts/asst chancellors from better and bigger schools.
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Post by Raidermania on Feb 10, 2017 15:14:34 GMT -5
I do not think you could find three candidates for WSU president worse than these three. And we paid Academic Search around $120,000 to narrow it down to those 3. Unbelievable. |
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