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I nominate Dr. Carolyn Ellis Stanton to be the next President of USM.

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Hu's on first

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"I nominate Dr. Carolyn Ellis Stanton to be the next President of USM."


So she is who, exactly.....

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" So she is who, exactly....."

No "n"  in her name - sorry.


Provost at Ole Miss - read the interview.



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Robert Campbell

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Right here:

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050424/OPINION/504240323/1007

RC

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Robert Campbell

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You'd need to know something about Staton's management decisions, before giving her a 100% endorsement, but she speaks a lot more positively about the life of the mind than many provosts I'm familiar with. I've yet to hear the current provost at Clemson (who also promotes interdisciplinary research, etc.) talk about the books she's been reading.

Would Staton want to move to an institution as badly in need of rebuilding as the post-Thamesian USM is going to be? Though Ole Miss faces its own resource limitations, there are some ambitious (and, I assume, realizable) plans in the works that you'd expect a top administrator at Ole Miss to want to stay with.

Robert Campbell

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I really don't know anything about her.  I read the article this morning and thought it was a refreshing change of pace -- for a brief moment it made me forget that I was on the wrong side of the looking glass. 



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stinky cheese man

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i'd also talk with some people at Ole Miss. i know some who have and they aren't all that enthralled with her.

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"You'd need to know something about Staton's management decisions, before giving her a 100% endorsemen.l"

I agree with Professor Campbell. It would be important to check with responsible Ole Miss contacts before getting too enthusiastic. As we have learned the hard way, talk and PR are cheap. Word is she may be a bit autocratic and not a big hit with the Ole Miss Faculty or Faculty Senate. I've heard she has been the source of campus controversy. Her background is in the law, not in the arts, sciences, business, or any of the other traditional academic disciplines we know at USM.
 

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stinky cheese man

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i also found it interesting that when she talked about the "life of the mind" she referred to her husband, not herself.

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All right already, my bad!  There will more appropriately be time for this in the next life.  It was just nice to hear from a university administrator who was not spouting world class hype.



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stinky cheese man

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draft pick--maybe it just shows how hard it is going to be for administrators (maybe anyone) in the post-Thames era.

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Waste Management

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"draft pick--maybe it just shows how hard it is going to be for administrators (maybe anyone) in the post-Thames era. "





There will be lots of unfortunate aftermath. It will not be an easy job for anybody. It may be nessary to outsource the cleanup job. 


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"draft pick--maybe it just shows how hard it is going to be for administrators (maybe anyone) in the post-Thames era. "
so true

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Jubal Early

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"draft pick--maybe it just shows how hard it is going to be for administrators (maybe anyone) in the post-Thames era. "
Amen to that.  The shortage of competent administrators nationwide is really depressing.  I've watched the meteoric rise of some administrators at other places with wonder.  These are just decent, minimally competent people, not superstar administrators.  Unfortunately, people like these wouldn't touch places like USM with a barge pole.  They have too many options elsewhere.  When SFT and his minions finally go, be prepared for the depressing nature of the candidate pools that follow.  We've just about run off all the local talent like Chuck Bolton and Alvin Williams.

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Jubilee Cornporn

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"Unfortunately, people like these wouldn't touch places like USM with a barge pole.  They have too many options elsewhere.  When SFT and his minions finally go, be prepared for the depressing nature of the candidate pools that follow."
You couldn't pay me enough to try to repair the immense damage that's been done to USM over the past three years.

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Jubilee Cornpone

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Uh oh. I meant Jubilee Cornpone, not Jubilee Cornporn. I hope mamma isn't reading the board this morning.



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Invictus

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"i'd also talk with some people at Ole Miss. i know some who have and they aren't all that enthralled with her. "


Um, is anybody ever enthralled with their provost? Methinks I remember that a lot of folks who regard Myron Henry rather highly now didn't think dirt of him as provost.

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Invictus

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"Uh oh. I meant Jubilee Cornpone, not Jubilee Cornporn. I hope mamma isn't reading the board this morning."


I thought that was Jubilation Cornpone, although I kinda thought "Cornporn" was better...

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Little Abner

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" I thought that was Jubilation Cornpone, although I kinda thought "Cornporn" was better..."
I think you're right, Invictus. Jubilation was the first name. I guess that Jubilee was just overanxiously awaiting the big coming out party.

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I am feeling so much better after a wonderful weekend and only three more weeks to go in the term, that the person or persons who have to clean up the train wreck here at USM matters least to me today, as long as THIS entire administration GOES!!!  Let's get them swept out of the dome, way down Hardy Street and celebrate for as long as we need to..........the work of rebuilding will happen, those of us who have struggled to stay here when our better judgement was to cut and run--we will invite all of our former colleagues who have left and have the party of the decade!   The worst president in Mississippi academic history has failed in his quest to defeat us...he has lost, as we knew he would.


"His" successor is of no importance to me, not today.  I am just concentrating hard on being in the zen moment of spring and hoping that instant karma is moving around the Dome. I can't remember, should we be looking for white smoke or black smoke as a sign??? Wakka Wakka 


 









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