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changes in Duke leadership?; fact checker reports
Topic Started: Mar 30 2011, 08:24 AM (328 Views)
Quasimodo

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http://dukefactchecker.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Trustees ponder future leadership of Duke
✔✔✔✔ FC here.

Since the late February trustee meeting, at least four members of the board have been actively engaged in discussions about the future leadership of Duke.

A reliable source tells us that, to a degree, these discussions have been spawned by the forced retirement of Chair Dan Blue Law '73, who runs into term limits on June 30th.

[Dan Blue was a trustee during the attempted frame-up of three innocent Duke students. He is a close friend of William
Barber
, and an attorney. What did he know and when did he know it? As an attorney he is required to report
violations of the law.

The trustees saw fit to elevate him to the position of Chair. Evidently they saw no problem with his conduct relative
to Duke students.

He needs to be asked questions under oath.

Of course, the entire NC political and social establishment will link arms to prevent that from happening.

A court independent of the political machine could force him to testify--ooops, sorry...]


But the discussions go beyond. They ask "mechanical" questions about President Richard Brodhead. That is, without imposing any judgment on his tenure, these Trustees are wondering if it is not prudent to have a preliminary search. The four Trustees feel strongly that there is no candidate on campus.

The focus is on Brodhead's age -- he was born April 17, 1947 -- and two factors that FC has previously reported:

-- the President has given indications that he is considering a return to teaching to cap his career. Not a decision, but indications. Presumably he would want to make this move, as former President Nan Keohane did, with some "good years" left.

-- the University is heading toward a giant development campaign, and continuity of leadership is mandatory. The campaign will probably not start for a year, most likely will last five to seven years. So the question is, what does Dick Brodhead want to be doing when he enters his 70's?

[IOW, they would like to get rid of Brodhead without actually having to criticize him for anything? Without actually having
to admit the presence of the 800 lb. guerilla in the room?]


(snip)

The names of Dr. Victor Dzau, medical chancellor, and executive vice president Tallman Trask also came up -- only in the context of making sure that all of Duke's top leadership doesn't change at once. There was little substantive talk of their tenure, although one Trustee noted with agreement of the others that Dzau has done an incredible job with Duke's crown jewel, and Trask has been excellent in steering through the financial meltdown.

[Both IMHO demonstrated a lack of moral character which ought to be one of the first requirements for anyone
to hold such offices. Trask even testified for Gottlieb that a Duke flag taken from a student's wall "was similar" or "looked like"
one that had been stolen from the campus--after Gottlieb interrupted a trial to go and fetch him to take the witness stand. I'd like to hear that one explained...]

We believe Dzau is into his 60's. He arrived at Duke at precisely the same time as Brodhead -- a lot of top level turnover at once. (Brodhead met with Dzau and signed off on his appointment even before he became President.)

(snip)

If a presidential search is necessary, the new vice chair would probably -- but not necessarily -- head it, just like Robert King Steel '73 did when Keohane retired and Brodhead was discovered.

On the vice chair, the four trustees agree the board should take a lead in deciding its officers, rather than having the in-house nominee promoted by the Brodhead Administration accepted.



I really want to hear what the four trustees have to say about the biggest scandal--reputationally, financially, and morally--which
Duke has ever suffered.

Once they shine daylight on that, they can talk about the requirements for Brodhead's successor.
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