… is what professors at the University of Kentucky call the entire academic side of their university.
If you’ve read University Diaries for any time at all, you know UD has long argued that only prodigious bourbon intake can explain the way the school is run.
Now, UK goes from the valley to the Peek — Joe Peek, UK professor of finance and newly-elected faculty member on the university’s absurd board of trustees.
Peek talks all kinds of amazing shit. Here’s some of it:
At the June Board of Trustees meeting, the budget that was approved included another $6 million for Coldstream [Research Park]. …My understanding is that Coldstream was supposed to be profitable long ago, and UK has already invested over $11 million in it. …I have heard, but do not know for sure, that an evaluation of Coldstream is on the agenda. Why would UK give Coldstream more money and only afterwards evaluate it?
Is UK really number 129 [on the US News and World Report ranking]? … Facts [like this one] don’t cease to exist because UK administrators choose to ignore them. … We are supposed to be Kentucky’s flagship university; it is about time we start acting like it.
Readers’ comments on the article are also intriguing:
[UK] has been held captive by basketball for as I long as I can remember (5+ decades).
UK [:] excellence in pharmacy and basketball…
Lets work together to end UKs idiotic sports obsession…
September 8th, 2010 at 3:20PM
Their prez, Lee Todd, is supposedly packing it in after this year.
September 8th, 2010 at 3:24PM
Yes, tp, I just read that. If it were any other campus, I’d say it means an opportunity for change. Not Kentucky.
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