West Virginia State U. Faculty Senate Votes ‘No Confidence’ in President

August 16, 2011, 3:04 pm

West Virginia State University’s Faculty Senate voted “no confidence” today in Hazo W. Carter Jr., who has been president of the institution since 1987, the Associated Press reports. Tim Ruhnke, chair of the Senate, said faculty members were concerned with “institutional stagnation.”

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drangie

“. . . professors are dissatisfied with declining enrollment and a poor public image.” I wonder how a no-confidence vote is going to help the institution’s public image.
willynilly

We’ve heard this song before. Mr Carter has previously expressed concerns over “faculty stagnation.”
jesor

How does that old story go…the new college president meets his predecessor on his first day and asks for some advice. The predecessor says, I’ve left three envelopes for you in the desk. They contain the advice given to me by my predecessor. If you ever get into a mess you can’t figure out, open them in order.

Things go well for a while, but a campus crisis blows up after the first year and nobody is buying into his solutions. The president opens the first letter and it says “blame the students”. He follows this advice and sure enough things calm down. A year or two later another crisis erupts and nothing he does can calm it down. He opens the second letter and it says “blame the faculty”, he spends the next week publicly calling out the faculty on their privledges, grade inflation, and productivity. The crises then dies away. A year later another crisis erupts and this time he tries everything he knows, he blames the students, he blames the faculty, and nothing seems to work. Finally, with trembling hands he opens the last letter, it says “write three letters”.
blesstayo

President of WVSU since 1987??? Why won’t you expect “instutional stagnation” after 24 years??? Academic institutions need term limits on presidency. Now you can see why a new president of WVSU will need a brand new strategic plan!
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