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Date: Jan 21, 2005

Baylor Prez Sacked

Date: Jan 21, 2005

Hey, at least their Board of Regents voted...was there ever such a public vote on SFT from the IHL?

Plus, isn't Baylor a private univ.? From what I've learned working at Vandy, public and private universities are about as much alike as apples and oranges in that respect.

Date: Jan 21, 2005

I found a bit more info. It was reported that he "stepped down" today effective in May. He will assume the position of chancellor which reports to the president and which engages in fund raising and other off campus activities. The regents are expected to endorse the change this month. It appears that, technically, he was not sacked. The Baylor faculty voted no confidence in December with an 85% no confidence vote.

Date: Jan 21, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Curmudgeon
"The Baylor faculty voted no confidence in December with an 85% no confidence vote."

I have observed that votes of no confidence usually forecase the demise of presidents at good universities. Not long ago there was Auburn. Today there is Baylor. Those are only two examples of recent vintage. Sometimes the no-confidence vote is taken more than once before the institution's governing board pays sufficient attention. Good governing boards recognize that a university can not be properly run when faculty confidence has eroded to such an overwhelming level.

Date: Jan 21, 2005

It took them nearly ten years to get rid of him and it included the wrath of the regents over a $2,000,000 airplane he purchased. When they came down on him he sold it and purchased a $1,000,000 airplane. The exhausted Baylor AAUP members are celebrating today! They have been in the trenches fighting tooth and nail!

Date: Jan 21, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: TInyFish
"It took them nearly ten years to get rid of him ..."

Oh, Lord. Ten years. What if . . .?

To answer Truth's question: yes, Baylor is a Southern Baptist school. The Texas equivalent of Mississippi College in some respects.

Date: Jan 21, 2005

baylor, to some, is considered the notre dame of baptist universities.

Date: Jan 21, 2005

Baylor refugees at my new school are dancing in the halls, just as USM refugees all over academia will when SFT is gone.

Date: Jan 21, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: ram
"
Oh, Lord. Ten years. What if . . .?
To answer Truth's question: yes, Baylor is a Southern Baptist school. The Texas equivalent of Mississippi College in some respects.
"

Yes, but the first no confidence vote was in September, 2003.

Date: Jan 21, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Con Man
"I have observed that votes of no confidence usually forecase the demise of presidents at good universities. Not long ago there was Auburn. Today there is Baylor. Those are only two examples of recent vintage. Sometimes the no-confidence vote is taken more than once before the institution's governing board pays sufficient attention. Good governing boards recognize that a university can not be properly run when faculty confidence has eroded to such an overwhelming level. "

both auburn and baylor had problems in athletics....so there maybe a common thread for university presidents job security and issues with the athletic dept

Date: Jan 21, 2005

Please, not a decade, there won't be many of us here with any kind of AAUP or institutional memory to remember why anyone would even dance...please, let us not deprive ourselves of that victory dance...why not take another vote? Where is our spirit to "take to the Dome" for another rally? Do we really have to wait for our "defining event", such as another unjust, catastrophic firing or worse, dissolution of the Senate, etc.? Why are we waiting? As Frank would say, will there be anybody left, when security comes to our office door with chains and a padlock???

Miss "I see fleeing faculty" Cleo