Janet Napolitano appointed UC President

[spdrun]

Regents approve Napolitano as president of UC system - latimes.com

What happened to things like academic credentials, instead of appointing political animals to academic positions?

[Can't Know]

Wow.

She's going to have to start hat shopping at a dish tv store...big as her head is gonna get.

[Botnst]

That position isn't academic. It requires a strong appreciation of and for academics. Mostly it requires organizational and political skills. Napolitano has demonstrated competency in both those areas.

[t walgamuth]

Its pretty common for politicians and other high ranking government folks to go on to head universities. At Purdue, We have Mitch Daniels who was gov of Indiana and before that cabinet member for W. Eisenhower was pres of (Princeton?) before running for pres.

It seems a high political profile will get you hired as university pres sometimes more so than academic credentials. Actually with Mitch, I believe most of the professors have PHD's and he does not....perhaps a law degree but perhaps he did not graduate from law school....not sure.

[jplinville]

Originally Posted by t walgamuth

Its pretty common for politicians and other high ranking government folks to go on to head universities. At Purdue, We have Mitch Daniels who was gov of Indiana and before that cabinet member for W. Eisenhower was pres of (Princeton?) before running for pres.

It seems a high political profile will get you hired as university pres sometimes more so than academic credentials. Actually with Mitch, I believe most of the professors have PHD's and he does not....perhaps a law degree but perhaps he did not graduate from law school....not sure.

A quick Wiki would have shown...

Daniels is a graduate of Princeton University, studied at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law and received his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center

[elchivito]

Originally Posted by spdrun

Regents approve Napolitano as president of UC system - latimes.com

What happened to things like academic credentials, instead of appointing political animals to academic positions?

Truman Scholar from the University of Santa Clara, Valedictorian, London School of Economics exchange student, Juris Doctor U.Va. What about her academic credentials don't you like?

[Mike D]

I don't care where she goes as long as it is not back here in AZ. I wish you luck UC. Plan on administration costs to rise, services to be cut, unrealistic goals to be set, funds shifted to fill "inadequacies" like a game of Tetris, accounting policies resembling lemmings marching over a cliff and abandonment when she finds it expedient.

No problem with her academic credentials. I do know quite a few people with a Master's degree who can't balance a checkbook though.

[MTI]

The worst part of Napolitano's Arizona legacy . . . she abandoned us with Brewer.

[Air&Road]

Lord help UC.

[Txjake]

I think a Walmart greeter position is more fitting for this idiot, facist *****...........

[spdrun]

Originally Posted by elchivito

Truman Scholar from the University of Santa Clara, Valedictorian, London School of Economics exchange student, Juris Doctor U.Va. What about her academic credentials don't you like?

And what has she done with them over the past 20 years other than being a political whore? Getting good grades, being an exchange student, then getting a law degree isn't really that hard -- I'd venture to say that there are at least a few hundred attorneys in NYC with the same credentials, if not more interesting.

But my main beef is that absent mitigating academic experience, having someone go from what's essentially a police agency to a university chairship just smells wrong.

[P.C.]

Originally Posted by Txjake

I think a Walmart greeter position is more fitting for this idiot, facist *****...........

I just want you to know how much we enjoy your ******* vocabulary!

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[elchivito]

Originally Posted by spdrun

And what has she done with them over the past 20 years other than being a political whore? Getting good grades, being an exchange student, then getting a law degree isn't really that hard -- I'd venture to say that there are at least a few hundred attorneys in NYC with the same credentials, if not more interesting.

But my main beef is that absent mitigating academic experience, having someone go from what's essentially a police agency to a university chairship just smells wrong.

You don't like her. We get it.

[Air&Road]

Originally Posted by Txjake

I think a Walmart greeter position is more fitting for this idiot, facist *****...........

I don't think even WalMart would stoop to such a level. To begin with, if a woman as fat and ugly as Big Sis were to offer a shopping cart, lots of people would hightail it back to their car and throw gravel getting the hell out of there.

[MTI]

Originally Posted by spdrun

Getting good grades, being an exchange student, then getting a law degree isn't really that hard --

You got those on your resume?

As said before, it's not a teaching position, it's high level executive management in a political/government environment of a major state institution. How many of those NYC attorneys have that background?