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Date: Dec 9, 2004

IHL Board Addresses

Date: Dec 9, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Pony Express
"Does anybody have the snail mail addresses of the IHL Board members? "

This was posted by Sympathizer on the fixed address thread at the top of this page. If you can't get the IHL address from their website it can probably be obtained with this information:

CRUCIAL: IHL CONTACT INFO

Email:   Ms. Suzanne Sharpe, Chief of Staff
            Phone: (601) 432-6661
            ssharpe@ihl.state.ms.us

Date: Dec 9, 2004

Thanks. What's needed is home addresses because I suspect that some of last spring's mail to their board addresses never was read.

Date: Dec 9, 2004

Thanks - I just sent a letter off....

NO QUARTER!!!!!! Not now, not ever!

Date: Dec 9, 2004

I don't know how current this is, but here's the list from the Faculty Senate webpage (can someone from AAUP or FacSen update these?):

Board of Trustees, Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning

Mr. Thomas W. Colbert, President

P.O. Drawer 1869

Brandon, MS 39043

Mr. Roy Klumb, Vice President

P.O. Box 2466

Gulfport, MS 39505

Mr. William S. Crawford

P.O. Box 849

Jackson, MS 39205

Dr. L. Stacy Davidson, Jr.

530 Hillcrest Circle

Cleveland, MS 38732

Ms. Ricki R. Garrett

112 Cedar Crest Drive

Clinton, MS 39056

Mr. Bryce Griffis

1433 Pinecrest Road

Starkville, MS 39759

Dr. D. E. Magee, Jr.

1151 N. State Street, Ste. 515

Jackson, MS 39202

Dr. Bettye H. Neely

1040 Pine Street

Grenada, MS 38901

Ms. Virginia Shanteau Newton

22 Old Oak Lane

Gulfport, MS 39503

Mr. Carl Nicholson, Jr.

P.O. Box 15099

Hattiesburg, MS 39404

Mr. Scott Ross

P.O. Box 332

West Point, MS 39773

Ms. Amy Whitten

The Whitten Group

P.O. Box 12707

Jackson, MS 39236-2707

Commissioner

Dr. David Potter

3825 Ridgewood Road

Jackson, MS 39211

Date: Dec 9, 2004

Some of these are members who went off. Can someone update us?

Date: Dec 10, 2004

My letter, just sent off...

I wrote to you last spring to express my concern about the unrest at the University of Southern Mississippi. At the time, I requested that you demand that President Thames get his house in order. I suggested removal of members of his inner council and indicated that this action would result in his getting better advice and making better decisions. Although it was important for those individuals to go, there has been no meaningful change for the better on the part of Dr. Thames. In fact, with the recent ratings drop and accreditation news, a bad situation has become deplorable. I now ask you to remove this failed president from office.

As I indicated in my last letter, I am a retired executive out of a high technology industry. I am an Eagle Club member, a donor, and an advisor to the university. Having been associated with academic administration for two decades, I speak with knowledge and expertise about university/industry collaboration. Dr. Thames has been a terrible disappointment to all of us who had hoped to see innovative leadership. He is not capable of running a university because he has abandoned the basic principles of the Academy. In his quest to run the university “like a business” he has ignored the business of running a university. All he has done is to recklessly waste resources, alienate faculty, deceive friends and lower the value of the university's intellectual and reputational capital. Some 15,000 current students, their parents, spouses, and children as well tens of thousands of alumni deserve better.

It is time, in fact it is past time, to bring in a professional interim administrator from the outside to lead the University of Southern Mississippi. Decisive action on your part, as those entrusted to uphold the academic integrity of this state, must be taken now.

Date: Dec 10, 2004

We still need some help on this. We need the woman from Laurel ( Robinson?), the guy from the coast (Ed __?), and two more and the names of the four who went off in May. We also need the name of the new commissioner.

Date: Dec 10, 2004

Isn't this the current list? You might try the phone book for Robin Robinson (though I seem to recall last spring her phone directory address was incorrect).

[James Roy Klumb, President]

[Ed Blakeslee]

[Thomas W. Colbert]

[Dr. L. Stacy Davidson, Jr.]

[Dr. D.E. Magee, Jr.]

[Dr. Bettye Henderson Neely]

[Virginia Shanteau Newton]

[Bob Owens]

[Aubrey Patterson]

[Robin Robinson]

[Scott Ross]

[Amy Whitten]

Date: Dec 10, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Former Executive
" In his quest to run the university “like a business” he has ignored the business of running a university. "

Good line, Former Exec. Really good!

The whole letter is well written, but that one sentence sums it up for me.

Date: Dec 21, 2004

Kick!

Bored and frustrated with holiday shopping? Bloated with too much holiday food? Bummed out contemplating the visit with the in-laws? Take a break and write a letter to the IHL Board members. As has been recently pointed out on another thread, short and concise letters, emphasizing the probation issue and omitting the Glamser-Stringer debacle, are more likely to have an impact. You can think of your letter a holiday present to all the concerned people on this message board who care about USM's future. That's going to be my motivation as I do my letters, so happy holidays to all of you.