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http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061005/COL0411/610050304

Ole Miss under Khayat gets sterling recognition

...The College Board, an eclectic and unwieldy group of appointees, picks presidents. The board, unfortunately, has embraced his penchant for secrecy. In the coming months, members will be hiring replacements for Dr. Clinton Bristow, who was putting Alcorn on the academic map before his untimely death this summer, and Dr. Shelby Thames, a brilliant scientist and not-so-brilliant administrator under whom the University of Southern Mississippi was put on academic probation....

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That's an interesting piece.  I'm glad to see credit being given to Bobby Khayat,  who was nothing short of visionary when he took the reins at Ole Miss.  The only bone I'd pick with this article is the characterization of Shelby Thames as "a brilliant scientist."  Sez who?


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Austin Eagle wrote:

That's an interesting piece.  I'm glad to see credit being given to Bobby Khayat,  who was nothing short of visionary when he took the reins at Ole Miss.  The only bone I'd pick with this article is the characterization of Shelby Thames as "a brilliant scientist."  Sez who?


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At least he got the "not-so-brilliant administrator" part right.

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I just had to link two statements made in this article:

"For perspective, understand that the Chronicle is the bible of academia. Workaday Mississippians love to loathe the pointy-headed thinkers of higher education. Yes, most of them are wacky liberals and, yes, many of them couldn't change a flat tire. They may not read Field & Stream, but they do read the Chronicle. They live by its words.

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Call it cruel or unfair, but the state's reputation for ignorance and poverty reflects on its higher education institutions."

Again the media publishes the "liberal, disconnected professors" idea. But at least it also publishes Mississippi's reputation for ignorance and poverty.

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The Clarion-Ledger does higher education in Mississippi no service when it mouths a descriptive that fits the stereotype most Mississippians have of educators--a sterotype that is demonstrably untrue of a huge majority of faculty, particularly those at USM. (Heck, I certainly can change a tire--and could when I was working!) The writer should spend a week or so following faculty on the job.

Last week the New York Times did a feature on Ole Miss game day in the Grove. I was struck then at the huge gap betwen them and us, a gap that has widened substantially over the last four years.

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Some would argue that the widening of the gap was planned by the IHL when they selected Thames as USM president. While Khayat was moving his school to #1 in enrollment, USM drifted down to #3. Khayat quadrupled his university endowment while Thames ignored his. While Khayat was attracting National Merit Scholars, Thames was running off half his faculty. The IHL (with the tacit approval of the USM boosters) kept USM on the back burner while Ole Miss prospered. The damage has been done, and the IHL and the alumni stood by and watched.

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Some would argue that the widening of the gap was planned by the IHL when they selected Thames as USM president. While Khayat was moving his school to #1 in enrollment, USM drifted down to #3. Khayat quadrupled his university endowment while Thames ignored his. While Khayat was attracting National Merit Scholars, Thames was running off half his faculty. The IHL (with the tacit approval of the USM boosters) kept USM on the back burner while Ole Miss prospered. The damage has been done, and the IHL and the alumni stood by and watched.


What better to dramatize the contrast between Bobby Khayat and Shelby Thames than the manner in which they selected their top administrators.  I'm only casually acquainted with Dr. Khayat, but can't imagine him ever populating the Ole Miss president's office with second-rate sad sacks such as Hanbury,  Malone, and the Dvoraks? Nuff said.


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"What better to dramatize the contrast between Bobby Khayat and Shelby Thames than the manner in which they selected their top administrators. I'm only casually acquainted with Dr. Khayat, but can't imagine him ever populating the Ole Miss president's office with second-rate sad sacks such as Hanbury, Malone, and the Dvoraks? Nuff said."


Right on, Austin Eagle.

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A little help here.  From the editorial:  "The board, unfortunately, has embraced his penchant for secrecy."


Whose "penchant for secrecy?"  Khayat's? Foglesong's? Lee's?



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ram wrote:

A little help here.  From the editorial:  "The board, unfortunately, has embraced his penchant for secrecy."


Whose "penchant for secrecy?"  Khayat's? Foglesong's? Lee's?




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