Senators demand regents explain how University of Northern Iowa president search will be different

[Cairycat]

http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/education/higher-education/senators-demand-regents-explain-how-university-of-northern-iowa-president-search-will-be-different-20160816

A trio of state lawmakers has sent a letter to the Board of Regents expressing concern with its upcoming search for a new University of Northern Iowa president and calling on the board to provide “specific steps” on how this process will differ from last year’s University of Iowa search.

“The most recent presidential selection process at the University of Iowa did not adhere to the high standards Iowans expect from our Board of Regents,” according to the letter, signed by Democratic senators Jeff Danielson, of Cedar Falls, Brian Schoenjahn, of Arlington, and Rob Hogg, of Cedar Rapids.

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“As state senators, we have been contacted by Iowans who are concerned about different issues regarding the Board of Regents,” they wrote in the letter, sent Friday to Board of Regents President Bruce Rastetter and Executive Director Robert Donley. “One especially timely concern that has been raised is how the search for a new president at the University of Northern Iowa will be conducted. We share that concern.”

The Board of Regents last fall came under fire from UI faculty, staff, students, and other community members for its hiring of businessman Bruce Harreld as UI president. Harreld, a former IBM executive with no administrative academic experience, was among four finalists — including former Ohio State University Executive Vice President and Provost Joseph Steinmetz, who just months later landed a job as chancellor of the University of Arkansas.

I sure hope these state legislators can hold the Regents' feet to the fire and not end up with some slimy, secretive process and businessman buddy of Braindead's like Harreld.

[rurallib]

1. the board of regents is a cesspool of cronyism and corruption

but so is the whole Branny admin.

God those people make me sick

[Wednesdays]

2. Just one of many symptoms

of for-profit education, that even "state institutions" have become.