[Alumni-chat] Antioch Pres. is CEO of University if Chancellor Posit

[alanbenard (alanbenard at pobox.com)]

>On Monday August 20, 2007 alan bernard wrote:
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>>>leaders' hubris as they used the University as a laboratory for their
>>>experiments in higher-education management.
>>Yes, and when Guskin made himself Chancellor and Crowfoot remained president
>>for a VERY short tenure and longstanding BoT's jumping ship back in mid
>>1990's (vonMatthissen for one--any others?)  Chancellor Guskin quickly
>>stepped down and retired to Seattle.  There was also a 7 year effort by Katy
>>Jako to bring about Antioch College's independence with pages of alumni
>>signing up.  Who at the College chose not to work with AIF?  Who preferred
>>Al's master plan?  Was it just the BoT?  Who has characterized AIF as
>>elitist snobs?  Yes, Alan, Antioch has become a laboratory for
>>experimentation in higher education management on ALL fronts including AC
>>leadership over the years. There have been plenty who got salaries and
>>expense accounts who did not do their job.  At least BoT are volunteers.
If you're talking about your favorite whipping boy, I'm pretty sure he was too busy raising funds and increasing enrollment while suffering from the effects of chemotherapy to write white papers about higher education management and then radically restructure entire universities on a whim. 

Whipping boy always struck me as a conservative gradualist. I do know that during the brief time we discussed Dr. Guskin he was curious as to the source of my distrust and anger. I'm not sure he appreciated it -- I've heard he and Dr. Guskin got along pretty well. I'm sure sure he'd appreciate what have to say about Dr. Guskin now. 

Reasonable people can disagree.

By the way, your team's favorite way of whipping Whipping Boy and his friends -- snarky comments about integrity and insinuations about alleged wrong doing -- make you look like an jerk. Spelled with six letters.

Alan Benard