… but don’t forget the even more scandalous Southern Illinois University group, presided over by pitiable president-for-life Glenn Poshard. (Put his name in my search engine for years of background.) U Va’s misery will probably end today; SIU’s trustees are the gift that keeps on giving.
You can sense this student journalist trying to grapple with the Beckettian absurdity of her school’s inept president and non-functional trustees as everyone fights with everyone – in public. “It’s just plain bullshit, and he knows it. He is only trying to deflect the truth of what’s going on at that university.” That’s the recent chair of the board talking about the president of the university.
Read the whole article if you want to get the particular piquancy that is the SIU leadership at work: A combination of emotional immaturity, political hackery, and organizational cluelessness.
June 26th, 2012 at 12:53PM
The terms of a number of trustees end next January, and I expect the governor will appoint new ones that are not so controlled by Poshard. Maybe he will see sense and resign before then to avoid further embarassment for SIU.
June 26th, 2012 at 1:49PM
keycat02: I think you’re right that this is the only promising scenario – that Poshard will be simply overwhelmed by a very different board, and that he is forced to resign. My problem is that my reading of the man over many years is that he’ll die before resigning.