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?

Wow.

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

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.

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.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

A quick Wiki would have shown...

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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.

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Should work fine at Berkeley.

The gift that keeps on giving. W/o someone to sneer at, no doubt your self-esteem would take a dive.

Oddly enough, UC Berkeley is rated quite highly in the ranks of university. Competition for admission is known to be intense.

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Several years ago I remember reading an article in the newspaper about a teacher who had just come back from a teacher in service event of some sort. She had 12 years experience teaching school and had a Masters degree. She was so excited because at the event she learned about and understood fractions. This is what we have teaching our children?

As I recall, we learned about fractions in the third of fourth grade. Nice of her to catch up.

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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?

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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.

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1993 Toyota 4wd Pickup 226K and counting

No: I don't know her. I'm extremely skeptical of any DHS head immediately going to a university chairmanship. (As I would be with someone who headed the FBI, CIA, or NYPD, absent seriously strong academic credentials.)

Suspicious of what?

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

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?