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Stanford? Let's compare Duke with Dartmouth...
Topic Started: Mar 5 2014, 08:22 AM (161 Views)
Quasimodo

The Trustees went to Stanford to learn more about how to oversee Duke.

That seems to be Trustee logic, right up there with how higher tuition is really a discount for students.

At any rate, maybe they should have visited Dartmouth instead... :


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http://www.dartblog.com/

President Jim Wright transformed Dartmouth: he grew the bureaucracy by 40% in his first few years in office, though the number of students remained unchanged; salaries and benefits skyrocketed as he attempted to buy popularity; he lowered tenure standards so much that the College will be burdened by about one hundred sub-par professors for decades; a plethora of senior administrators fled to other schools (Lee Bollinger, Jamshed Barucha, Susan Prager, Mike Gazzaniga); his borrowing binge and overspending left Dartmouth with fewer financial resources on net at the end of his eleven-year reign than when he started in office; he did virtually nothing to improve the academic climate or the undergraduate program; and he engendered a toxic institutional culture of spinning, lying, and punishment for dissent.

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Now we learn that Wright, an historian by trade, has made sure that his time in office won’t be comprehensively studied by scholars until all of the actors in his administration are playing golf on the big green in the sky. The Alumni Magazine is reporting that by decree in 2003 Wright bottled up for 50 years all of the documents relating to the Board of Trustees from his time in office. That’s a shame. The Trustee records of Wright’s Presidency would make interesting reading for historians of the College. And for anyone interested in the truth. But, then, history was never really Wright’s concern; it was always about Jim.

[Duke's BOT documents are also, IIRC, bottled up for fifty years.]


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I wonder, can Wright’s self-interested decree be un-decreed by a future President?

Addendum: Worst President ever.
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Quasimodo

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and he engendered a toxic institutional culture of spinning, lying, and punishment for dissent.


Would this have been the case under Terry Sanford?

Would the Gang of 88 have been tolerated under Terry Sanford?

Would Sanford have at least spoken with the accused and their families?

Would he have rushed to give inflammatory speeches about rape and racism, and have said "what they did was bad enough"?

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Worst president ever


Got any candidates in mind for Duke?


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