Gary Miller steps down

[ZipCat]

1 hour ago, zippy5 said:

Sorry, call it "industry" experience and not "real world."

 

Tomato tomahto

 

It's not mutually exclusive. That's the point. We don't need to insult other people's professions to make ourselves feel better. Especially with something as utterly clueless as, I don't know, educators being at Universities. What a joke.

[LZIp]

On 8/5/2024 at 9:21 PM, ZipCat said:

 

It's not mutually exclusive. That's the point. We don't need to insult other people's professions to make ourselves feel better. Especially with something as utterly clueless as, I don't know, educators being at Universities. What a joke.

Educators are valuable, but also need to know when to stay in their lane. My recollection is that there was pressure by the educators to hire Scarborough over Tressel as President due to lack of doctorate or whatever, and that may very well have been the worst hire in University history.

[egregiousbob]

Scarborough hire was entirely on the board and, in particular, the board president. Idiots.

 

[ZipCat]

On 8/8/2024 at 8:10 AM, LZIp said:

Educators are valuable, but also need to know when to stay in their lane. My recollection is that there was pressure by the educators to hire Scarborough over Tressel as President due to lack of doctorate or whatever, and that may very well have been the worst hire in University history.

 

When your options were Scarborough or a Football Coach, your selection committee has failed you.

 

And lets be real here: Scarborough was hired to be a hatchet guy. Period. Fullstop. He wasn't hired for any other purpose. To be a hatchet person for an incompetent BoT made of political appointees.

Edited August 12, 2024 by ZipCat

[johnnyzip84]

Like so many, I was quite dismayed when Scarborough was brought in, and I was thankful that his stay was brief (who can forget the presidential home and the $556.40 olive jar). But in retrospect, maybe UA would have been better off in the long run had those deeper cuts been made at the time - get the bleeding over with so the healing can begin?  Just a thought.

 

It may take some more time, but I believe the U can be "right-sized" eventually.

Edited August 14, 2024 by johnnyzip84

[Reslife4Life]

https://signalakron.org/university-of-akron-president-pushed-into-retirement-emails-show-gary-miller-r-j-nemer/

 

Really don't know what to think of this. To me, the provost almost sounds like he knows Gary was planning on leaving. But I could be interpreting it wrong

[GP1]

5 hours ago, Reslife4Life said:

https://signalakron.org/university-of-akron-president-pushed-into-retirement-emails-show-gary-miller-r-j-nemer/

 

Really don't know what to think of this. To me, the provost almost sounds like he knows Gary was planning on leaving. But I could be interpreting it wrong

Good read. Thanks for posting. 

 

At Miller's age, his departure was no surprise. It's was reasonable concern about whether or not he was the guy to make the cuts. 

[Blue & Gold]

Here are links for the 3-part series on Dr. Miller from Signal Akron

 

Part 1: U of A president Gary Miller pushed into retirement, emails show

 

Part 2: 'Time is not our friend': Board moved to cement Nemer as new University of Akron president

 

Part 3: Despite pushback over presidential search process, R.J. Nemer takes helm of University of Akron