Let’s play with all this money from our students and from the government! You get some; we get some…
You remember the Karen Pletz story, the one that started with the news that an obscure osteopathy school boasted one of the nation’s highest-paid college presidents [Scroll down.]…
Well, the lies and resignations and firings and lawsuits are flying, and we’ll follow all of that on this blog, especially if people say amusing things. But here’s an inevitable feature of stories like this (See Benjamin Ladner, American University. Indeed, one of the whistle-blowers in this case “appended [to her ignored letter to the board of trustees] a lengthy article from Washingtonian magazine about extravagant spending by a former president of American University that led to a federal investigation.”) — a lengthy article about how for years tons of warnings, petitions, complaints, rumors, and letters were dumped on the board of trustees.
But – as was the case at AU – when the board of trustees is itself scummy, none of that makes any difference.
June 28th, 2010 at 4:54PM
More sleazeball administrators find some loopholes, which are more like triumphal arches.
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Why not cut the K-12 crowd in on the action