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"Some college administrators seem so distracted with fund raising, academic infighting, and community initiatives that they set up their emergency communications departments very poorly. Training is poor to nonexistent, secretaries are pressed into service with tremendous responsibilities for running 'notification systems' 24/7 and on weekends because no one else knows how to do it and the administration won’t pay for additional staff. Procedures are seat-of-the-pants and dependent on HIPPO (highest paid person’s opinion), except when something like Virginia Tech happens and there is some sort of scramble to do something different." --Donna
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Sonoma State U. Foundation May Lose $350,000 on Loan to Former Board Member
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May 30, 2006
Wisconsin Officials Said to Have Threatened to Pull Business From Bank
University of Wisconsin System officials considered canceling a contract this year with a bank that declined to sign on as a corporate sponsor of a university sports conference, according to a report in Monday’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The officials also pushed a vice president at the company, U.S. Bank, to reconsider the $20,000-a-year sponsorship, noting that the university did a lot of business with the bank.
An auditor with the state’s Department of Administration called the sponsorship episode “more like a demand” than a request, but a review determined that neither ethics laws nor procurement policy had been violated.
U.S. Bank declined in January to become a sponsor of the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, which is an arm of the Wisconsin system and includes the nine state universities that are in Division III of the NCAA. Soon after, the University of Wisconsin at Superior’s chancellor, Julius Erlenbach, chairman of the athletic conference, sent a U.S. Bank vice president a letter saying the firm should reconsider. A conference official and a Wisconsin associate vice president also looked into pulling the conference’s business with U.S. Bank, the newspaper reported.
Regardless of the audit’s findings, the incident was more bad publicity for the university system, which in recent months has faced criticism over a six-year, $26-million snafu with its payroll software (The Chronicle, May 5), its continued employment of felons (The Chronicle, April 10), and its granting of backup jobs and other perks to top officials (The Chronicle, November 25, 2005).
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