The Roanoke Slant

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NEW NEWS From Gov. McDonnell   June 22, 2012

RICHMOND- Governor Bob McDonnell today issued the following statement on the University of Virginia presidency. He also sent a letter to the Board of Visitors this afternoon. The letter is available here: http://www.governor.virginia.gov/utility/docs/LetterToUVA-Board.pdf.
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In the letter, Governor McDonnell writes: "But let me be absolutely clear: I want final action by the Board on Tuesday. If you fail to do so, I will ask for the resignation of the entire Board on Wednesday. Regardless of your decision, I expect you to make a clear, detailed and unified statement on the future leadership of the University."
http://www.governor.virginia.gov/news/viewRelease.cfm?id=1304
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Roanoke Times, 6-19-12, Pg 1, 12: Campus roiled by board’s actions (to remove UVa President).
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Board member Dragas said: Contrary to some ‘critics’ suspicions, the governing board “has never, nor will we ever, direct that particular programs or courses be eliminated or reduced. These matters belong to the faculty.”
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Based on that statement it’s clear the Governor should replace the entire board and appoint members who do exercise direction over a system that it totally out of financial management controls. No wonder the tuition costs are exploding way beyond the inflation rate. And whatever happened to economy of scale? Shouldn’t unit costs decrease as volume increases? Apparently not at UVa!
Courses should be dropped and tenured obsolete practitioners with them! Why aren’t most textbook now online? Why aren’t most courses keyed to the coming job opportunities?
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Why has Pres. Sullivan spent over one-half million tax dollars fighting the Mann-FOIA requests? Just release the documents as required by Virginia Law! She should be fired for that malfeasance alone!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/05/uva-and-global-warming-alarmists-court.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/05/hypocrisy-of-uva-faculty.html
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Our public colleges and universities are totally out of fiscal control and accountability. We need to install business people into the management structure who understand the basic concepts of value and productivity and have a track record of making sound business decisions.
Having tenured faculty in charge of the universities is like have the inmates in charge of the asylum.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/07/virginia-college-tuition-runaway-train.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/college-new-welfare-state.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/11/feed-hungry-beasts.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/04/vt-tuition.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/01/expensive-textbooks.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/04/tuition-explosion_03.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/03/vt-costs-skyrocketing.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2005/02/freedom-for-public-colleges.html
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