The University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees is expected today to announce the appointment of Thomas W. Cole Jr., a former president of Clark Atlanta University, as interim chancellor of the system’s flagship campus, in Amherst, The Chronicle’s News Blog reports.
For more details, see an article in The Boston Globe.
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One Response to Former Clark Atlanta President to be Interim Head of UMass-Amherst
annmariastat - January 9, 2012 at 2:24 pm
I had to laugh reading your article. Years ago, I left an academic position to go into consulting full time. The money and “academic freedom” are both much greater. I do a lot of contracted research and although I don’t publish as much it is because I only publish what I think is really new and useful, not to meet tenure requirements. I am so familiar with all of the reactions you mention. A few years ago, I was asked to speak to a group of new doctoral students. I emphasized the opportunities to learn programming, to “code your own stunts” and how much expertise in programming and statistics would help their future job prospects. Several of them told me, in no uncertain terms, that THEY were going to get full-time tenure track jobs at R1 institutions because that is what graduates from this fine university did. (Unspoken is that they were not going to be losers like me running a profitable consulting company.) I’d love to see where those doctoral students are now. As you say, they will learn.