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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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August 19, 2008
University President Is Arrested in Iraq's Restive Diyala Province
The president of Diyala University, in northeastern Iraq, was arrested by Iraqi troops today and led away from his home in a hood and handcuffs, the Associated Press reported. The Sunni party accused the government security forces of sectarian bias in the arrests of the president, Nazar al-Khafaji, and of a local poltician in Diyala province, who are both Sunni.
An unidentified official of the Iraqi army told the AP that Mr. al-Khafaji was a suspect in the killing of “several professors” at the university, but the official did not provide any evidence to support the allegations. The president’s nephew, who works for him as a driver and was in the house at the time of the raid, told the news agency that troops had also seized several computers and books.
The province of Diyala, whose population is mostly Sunni Arab, has a Shiite governor and “has proven among the most difficult of Iraq’s 18 provinces to pacify,” according to the AP. Shiites dominate elected offices, it said, because Sunnis boycotted the 2005 provincial elections.
Academe has suffered in the sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shiites. University campuses have been the targets suicide bombers, and according to the AP, nearly 400 Iraqi academics have been assassinated in the strife. —Aisha Labi
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Well…..that’s one way to avoid a faculty vote of no-confidence.
Situations like this are precisely why protecting our higher education institutions from becoming political instruments is so important.
— JS Aug 20, 12:58 AM #