The Tennessee Senate plans to hold hearings over the controversial decision earlier this month by the state’s Board of Regents to name an aide to the governor as its new chancellor. In order to hire John Morgan, the board dropped a requirement that applicants have a doctorate degree. Mr. Morgan’s highest degree is a bachelor’s from Austin Peay State University. Some lawmakers are also questioning an $80,000 raise Mr. Morgan received.
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5 Responses to Tennessee Lawmakers to Hold Hearings About Chancellor Pick
honore - August 13, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Apparently CHE articles of the UW-Madison’s very recent journey down this SAME filthy path didn’t make it to Tennessee…same end game, different players.
dgray2525 - August 13, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Honore, I am missing something. Chancellor Martin at UW-Madison is a traditional academic whose immediate prior post was provost at Cornell University. She holds a Ph.D. from UW-Madison. So, I don’t see how the two situations are parallel.
blue_state_academic - August 13, 2010 at 4:24 pm
The Tennessean in Nashville has done a good job describing how the search appears to have been wired for Morgan.http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100807/NEWS04/8070332/Regents-name-John-Morgan-as-new-chancellor
tgroleau - August 16, 2010 at 9:22 pm
dgray2525, I think honore is referring to the hiring of Michaal Morgan as a UW Sr. Vice President:http://chronicle.com/blogPost/U-of-Wisconsins-Quick-Hiring/25201/Remarkably similar situation.
honore - August 16, 2010 at 11:23 pm
tgroleau…ditto…to which i would add, Morgan did not apply, circumvented the U’s own hiring policy and made a sham of the U’s pretense to “equal access”, “affirmative action” and EEO fictions.