U. of Houston Regents Pick New President

October 19, 2007, 11:15 am

The University of Houston’s governing board has unanimously picked Renu Khator, provost and senior vice president at the University of South Florida, as the only finalist for the job of UH system chancellor and president of the main UH campus, the Houston Chronicle reports. The regents are required by state law to wait 21 days before finalizing the appointment, the reporter, Matthew Tresaugue, writes. If confirmed, she’ll succeed Jay Gogue — who left UH this summer to lead Auburn University, his alma mater — in January 2008. John M. Rudley will continue to serve as interim chancellor and president until Khator takes office. See a press release on the UH system Web site for more details.

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4 Responses to U. of Houston Regents Pick New President

caesar - May 30, 2012 at 8:00 am

*the boss’s house

matias_addy - June 4, 2012 at 11:48 am

Plenty of the rich comprise tuna-casserole Costco shoppers (but perhaps using some ingredients culled from farmers markets and quality fishmongers); in fact you are probably bringing some misconceptions to the table, as you seem to be imagining a lot of rich-people tropes that don’t always hold true, at least in the U.S. Granted, the Romney’s of the one-percenters are out there, with their horse-dressages and third-home-that’s-bigger-than-your-first-and-only-home, but they might feel more self-conscious about their wealth than you realize.

loumac - June 7, 2012 at 11:16 pm

I relate to this a lot. I actually feel estranged from my own colleagues most of the time, based on differences in financial world views and resources. This started as soon as I started my job here – when colleagues asked what I paid in rent, and I told them, they would say things like “for that price you should buy a place.” And I wondered – I still do – what’s the secret? What’s the thing no-one is telling me, because apparently homeowning should be on my horizon of expectation? I had zero savings, zero family money (or willingness to help even if they had money), and paid rent from paycheque to paycheque. 10 years later, with tenure, I still don’t own a home and never will if I stay in this particular job (massive salary inversion issues): I can’t qualify for a loan. I find that academics are sometimes incredibly blinkered to their own privilege. Most own homes and take it for granted that they can, they’ve had significant family help along the way with cars, house down-payments, being able to live at home. And/or they are straight-married to other middle-class folks. I’m not an administrator, and I don’t have to hobnob with the 1 per cent, but just wanted to say that the feelings of class alienation even between people who look like peers (faculty in the same department) can be really intense.

kmlydon - June 24, 2012 at 10:32 pm

As the child of parents who were the first in their families to even go to secondary school (in Ireland in the late 50s) it seems unimaginable to me that anyone would assume that because someone is rich they would be interesting or smart. Without wishing to deny that all this is problematic and painful for many people, it seems tome to be part of a peculiarly American inferiority complex, the flip side of which is the insistence of so many other Americans (including radio talk show hosts and undergraduate students) that their total ignorance does not prevent their opinions from being just as good as anybody else’s