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Cossack

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For the past three weeks, I have been convinced that Shelby was getting to heavy for the Board to carry. I also was convinced that the Board Office staff, including Croft, could see the huge task that lay ahead. They know that every day Thames is in office the task grows. The Board office will have to provide leadership, and many of members of the staff will have to spend time in Hattiesburg in addition to keeping up their routine duties. I do not disagree with the idea that most of the Board members wish to neutralize (even neuter) USM. They did and still do. What has changed is the expected cost of carrying it out. Their mistake was picking the wrong man to help them. Instead of picking Shelby, The One Man Wrecking Crew, they should have taken a longer view and picked an even weaker and more vacillating President then Fleming to succeed him. We would likely have imploded slowly with minimum outcry and even less chance to remove the weak President than we have with Shelby. By moving the One Man Wrecking Crew into the presidency, their plan backfired. Now the Board and the Board Office is living and breathing USM 24/7. This has created two problems. One, it has occupied the Board’s and saff’s time and reduced the time they have to help State and Old Miss. The Board and Board Office, plus the President of Ole Miss and perhaps State, can see that USM is getting most of attention. They also see that it is going to take money to fix the problem, particularly the SACS problem, and that money will be money that Ole Miss and State cannot get their hands on. Every day that Shelby stays ups the ante in time and money. He will be jettisoned soon. My concern is how well thought out the reclamation plan will be and WILL THE FACULTY BE PART OF IT. Indeed, I see that as our next major problem. A plan that is hatched in Jackson to remove Shelby and fix USM without faculty input is another recipe for disaster.

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"A plan that is hatched in Jackson to remove Shelby and fix USM without faculty input is another recipe for disaster."


I agree, but what do you suggest faculty do? After all of Klumb's derisive comments about faculty, he certainly isn't going to be enlisting faculty input. Crofts maybe.

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Left (formerly Leaving Soon)

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"One Man Wrecking Crew."

I love it!


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Cossack

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It will have to be the Board office. Once Shelby is dumped, I do not think the Board will want to be involved. Indeed, I think that Board members will be unusually quiet for some time after the Big Dump. In my view, whoever takes the reins, and I would prefer Croft for a period of time, will have to hire from 5 to 8 people to provide the talent to get SACS off our back. It will be those people who likely will try to get faculty and chairs involved in the process. They will want a preponderance of the faculty, colleges and departments to buy into the process.

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"It will have to be the Board office. Once Shelby is dumped, I do not think the Board will want to be involved. Indeed, I think that Board members will be unusually quiet for some time after the Big Dump. In my view, whoever takes the reins, and I would prefer Croft for a period of time, will have to hire from 5 to 8 people to provide the talent to get SACS off our back. It will be those people who likely will try to get faculty and chairs involved in the process. They will want a preponderance of the faculty, colleges and departments to buy into the process."

This is already underway, Cossack.  Just ask Amy Young and David Duhon about the faculty  involvement and all the committee work that's underway.  However, all of this is really for the next SACS review.  Joan Exline is working on the last review for which we are on probation. That is a different story because although some assessment plans exist, much of the assessment data doesn't.  Now that we know Malone started the MBA program at Jackson Co. without Doty's knowledge or the approval of CoB faculty, there isn't much that can be done without a "time machine" to go back and change it.  While we are back there we would also need to get Malone a degree in business for SACS guideline on credentials.  But other that that everything is fine at USM and we are moving forward to world class status.  Thanks for asking.


 



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"It will have to be the Board office. Once Shelby is dumped, I do not think the Board will want to be involved. Indeed, I think that Board members will be unusually quiet for some time after the Big Dump. In my view, whoever takes the reins, and I would prefer Croft for a period of time, will have to hire from 5 to 8 people to provide the talent to get SACS off our back. It will be those people who likely will try to get faculty and chairs involved in the process. They will want a preponderance of the faculty, colleges and departments to buy into the process."
I see that Krispy Kreme, once the fair-haired child of the investment community but not in financial distress, has hired an outside organization to help rehabilitate Krispy Kreme. Krispy Kreme's demise took only two to three years. This outside help they feel compelled to hire will cost Krispy Kreme a bundle. I suspect that, considering the sorry state of affairs at USM, the rehabilitation of USM will cost the Mississippi taxpayers a bundle also.  

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