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Mark Kennedy new, but soon to be old CU President - Official CU president Thread
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Board of Regents/ flesh light cross promotional gone awry.
Great idea honestly. Buy tons of sex toys and litter the regents yards, symbolizing how they ****ed us.
SuperiorBuff
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No ****. Actually, for some reason he loves it down there.
He's going to lead us into the 21st century!!!!
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What’s the process to initiate recalls on a regent? Regardless of political affiliation, pretty much every regent abdicated their responsibility to every stakeholder except their voting base. There was no consideration of the input of students, faculty, or alumni.
Hasn’t communicated a vision for or an understanding of issues facing CU.
Hasn’t shown a track record as a fundraiser and his UND relations with boosters raises red flags.
Has no ties either politically or socially to Colorado.
He has no experience at a peer institution.
This was not a good choice. I’m shocked at how bad.
My main takeaway from this is that CU needs to lobby hard to change its BoR so that it’s no longer a board of politicians. Peer boards are mostly comprised of representatives of the various stakeholder groups (alumni, faculty, boosters, state, etc). This is the real problem at CU.
55 cents a mile for 25,000 miles $13,750
CU lobbying to change a system that produced its President is a bad look.
Unfortunately, any effort to change how the leadership of CU is selected needs to come from the ballot box. The reality is that the vast majority of Colorado residents don’t give two ****s about CU and couldn’t care less how the President is chosen. In addition, with how polarized we’ve become, any effort to change the political nature of the governing board will certainly be met with substantial resistance.
We are in a bad spot. I don’t know how to fix it.
Unfortunately, any effort to change how the leadership of CU is selected needs to come from the ballot box. The reality is that the vast majority of Colorado residents don’t give two ****s about CU and couldn’t care less how the President is chosen. In addition, with how polarized we’ve become, any effort to change the political nature of the governing board will certainly be met with substantial resistance.
We are in a bad spot. I don’t know how to fix it.
It does sound like some difficult choices had to be made at UND when he took the job. I wonder how much of the fundraising short falls during his time there are related to changing the mascot name and the blowback from boosters and alums because of it, in addition to the cuts in athletics that were made during his time there. Certainly there are some things about Kennedy that are concerning, not least of which is fundraising for a university in a state where state funding for higher education leaves a lot to be desired.
Because of my disdain for some of the Dems on the BoR, and knowing how over the top liberal faculty and students can be, I'm going to give Kennedy a chance. Having said that its interesting to me how fast the BoR 'pubs fell along party lines when Kennedy was first announced. Both sides of this suck. This was a hire the BoR really needed to come be united on and they blew it.
You could be correct. Don’t know. But I think an allowance is pretty standard.
Put more simply, you’re not sure?
Bliff Cranch
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The BoR will never be united. On anything. It is a poisonous committee. A sign of the times.
Not sure how to fix it. But I do know this: the decision has been made. We can choose to bitch and moan about it or be Buffs and work to make CU better. Whining about the decision at this point serves no purpose. We made our voices be heard by the Regents and they were ignored. That’s on us for electing them in the first place. We can wallow in self pity or choose a more constructive path.
Typically done instead of a mileage reimbursement. At least at my company (although our President does not get one even close to as nice as Kennedy got).
I can surely get behind that.
Taken from CNN:
Top 10 earners among public college presidents in 2013-2014
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Bitch all you want but Kennedy's pay is around the norm for college presidents these days especially at a school like CU.
Top 10 earners among public college presidents in 2013-2014
| Name | Organization | Total compensation |
|---|---|---|
| Rodney Erickson* | Pennsylvania State University | $1,494,603 |
| R. Bowen Loftin* | Texas A&M University | $1,128,957 |
| Joseph Alutto* | Ohio State University | $996,169 |
| Elson Floyd | Washington State University | $877,250 |
| Paula Allen-Meares* | University of Illinois at Chicago | $872,458 |
| Francisco G. Cigarroa* | University of Texas System | $864,660 |
| Renu Khator | University of Houston | $850,000 |
| Patrick Harker | University of Delaware | $800,156 |
| Charles W. Steger* | Virginia Tech | $745,195 |
| Robert Witt | University of Alabama | $745,000 |
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Bitch all you want but Kennedy's pay is around the norm for college presidents these days especially at a school like CU.
This makes it worse. By his second year, he will be the #6 earner on this list. Regardless of his political non-sense, nothing in his CV should put him anywhere near this list.
I don't know if a list of the top 10 highest salaries for university presidents is really the "norm." More so it's even more baffling that in year 2 he will be the 6th highest paid president in the country for public universities and he's had all of 3? years prior experience as a president of a university. Fan ****ing tastic.
I agree, although Jalapeno’s point is valid. This is the going rate for a University President at this level. We just hired a guy who didn’t do anything to demonstrate that he deserves the job.
Everybody has worked with somebody who they look at and say “how the Hell did you ever get this job?” Well, THAT guy is now the President of the University of Colorado. That doesn’t change the accepted pay scale for a person in that position.
Dude, that is from six years ago. Surely those salaries have risen as well.