urbanpreppie05

I was talking with another friend who's also an Akron alum and works at a university as a dean about this...it really looks like he's wants to make a move to be back in his roots and probably near more people of his faith.

You want worse? a trend (that i'm very split on) in higher ed is courting more online/virtual students. The college could have easily hired a president that would have continued to court these students over physical, campus ones and taken over Kaplan, or worked with Phoenix. THAT would have been a disaster. As for Wilson...i honestly think this was a personal decision. Maybe the last few months have been a strain on his family.

And again...what has wilson done wrong that people are like, "Oh he's leaving a mess for someone else to clean up?"

So if someone wants to leave to better his or her family in higher ed, wouldn't it have looked much, much worse if he wasn't straight up with the Board anyway about an opportunity that came up that he felt he should apply for? I say this, because i did the same thing in my job in higher ed, 9 years ago. And there was no love lost, and i did my job at 110% until my last day. That's just how higher ed works. I

Changing jobs in Higher Ed is a little different. We are almost encouraged not to stay in a position for too long -barring your position doesn't change, or you receive new education/skills. You have to do what's best for you and your family- which it sounds like that's what hes doing. It doesn't mean he doesn't like the school any less or make him less loyal. And while you're right, things still aren't great- the school's in better shape at the end of his presidency than at the beginning.

In all seriousness, why? From everything i've seen he did a lot of damage control from Scarborough.

Of all times for me to return to posting....

My phone and feed have been blowing up here in pa. After the crap that happened this year, the school it's students, players and alums all needed this. GO ZIPS!!

I'm constantly refreshing the score via Google...and my stomach is in knots lol

It's only a $20 million deficit. The $60 million total includes $10 million in his initiatives and $30 million in capital planning- including that "main entrance"

There's always been a negative slant against UA in Northeast Ohio. Of course NONE of this helps any, but still.

So it looks like...No More Subway or Ohio Burger Company?

That was...terrible. How is this news? How?

It may be unpopular here, but that place had been losing money for a LONG time. That's why the owners (when it was Crowne Plaza) dumped it, and UA snapped it up. Still a little sad though. :-( As for the hotel situation, i used to work at City Center (when it was a Radisson). And as thankful that I am for them giving me a job that eventually got me working at another college FT, that place needs a MAJOR renovation- or least being put in the hands of someone who will fix it up. Thankfully, the market for new hotels is fixing that. (never thought i would see a downtown Marriott!)

I don't see them eliminating football because 1- info is barely five years old, cost quite a bit of money, and with a better marketing/strategy campaign and coach, could still draw bigger crowds 2- the huge black eye the university would get if they closed the program (and thus the stadium) What I do see them doing is: Hopefully, better and bigger student/community push Renting the stadium out for event use like the rubber bowl was Thinning out the sports to basic Mac sports and title 9 Barring that doesn't work, going down a division