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69 candidates apply for head position at UT Knoxville News Sentinel

The 3 star general and the one of the Deans looks okay, but I am sad about this list.

I want Bill Frist or someone like that. I want someone who can double our endowment and focus us on areas where we can excel moving into the future. UT even if the Haslams gave us 1 billion more for academics will not be a famous liberal arts school.

We have a budget of 100 million a year or so for research on the academic side. ORNL which we have the exclusive academic partnership with, has a budget 20 times that size for research. UT will not be MIT or Cal Tech or even Georgia Tech but we could become a world class top tier school by focusing on our strengths like Architecture, Forensics, Agriculture and the sciences...
 
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The last thing UT needs to do is hire a professional politician like Frist as president. Lamar Alexander was terrible; he just warmed the seat for a couple of years while he nakedly searched for his next political opportunity. Why would we want to sign up for that again?

Since literally all you care about is fundraising, both for academics and athletics, then I'm surprised you're not agitating for Mike Hamilton to be promoted. He's done such an awesome job for the image of Tennessee athletic -- imagine what he could do with the whole university?
 
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"Other applications were generic, with cover letters stating that they were applying for a position with "your company." Many came from nonacademic fields, including computer science, finance, aerospace, real estate and architecture. Applicants included school teachers, a security guard, a minister and community activist and a hamburger restaurant manager."

Had to laugh at this...
 
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orange+white=heaven said:
who you want Vercy?...
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If I could pluck anybody in the world out of his current situation and stick him in that job, I'd obviously want Loren Crabtree back. He did an outstanding job as UT-Knoxville chancellor before being run out by Petersen over political issues. I'd love him to see him come back with a mandate to improve the whole UT system.

Regardless, I want a president with a strong record as an academic administrator. For once. We never hire one, and our academics never get any better. Funny how that works, isn't it?
 
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MikeHamiltonFan said:
69 candidates apply for head position at UT Knoxville News Sentinel

The 3 star general and the one of the Deans looks okay, but I am sad about this list.

I want Bill Frist or someone like that. I want someone who can double our endowment and focus us on areas where we can excel moving into the future. UT even if the Haslams gave us 1 billion more for academics will not be a famous liberal arts school.

We have a budget of 100 million a year or so for research on the academic side. ORNL which we have the exclusive academic partnership with, has a budget 20 times that size for research. UT will not be MIT or Cal Tech or even Georgia Tech but we could become a world class top tier school by focusing on our strengths like Architecture, Forensics, Agriculture and the sciences...
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Have you not already named the new president? As long as they have no connection with academics, they will be fine.
 
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I'm going to apply. I think I have the pulse of the common fan. wonder what the interview proccess would be like.
 
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Volgrad98 said:
"Other applications were generic, with cover letters stating that they were applying for a position with "your company." Many came from nonacademic fields, including computer science, finance, aerospace, real estate and architecture. Applicants included school teachers, a security guard, a minister and community activist and a hamburger restaurant manager."

Had to laugh at this...
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The McDonald's manager probably read the thread where MHF mentioned Ernie Grunfeld and the founder of Ruby Tuesday as possible candidates, and figured that it wouldn't really matter if he'd never graduated from high school.
 
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This one caught my eye...Philippe De'Fullmer. Says he is qualified and interested.
 
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On a site devoted to University of Tennessee athletics, discussion about the next president of the university gets moved to the "Off Topic" forums? Really?

Maybe it doesn't exactly fit in the football forum -- although posts about the school itself have never been moved off the main board before -- but if nothing else, we need a subforum for discussion about the university itself. This is far more on-topic to the site than the rest of the dreck in the politics forum.
 
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Verc you have one candidate. He has not demonstrated that he can navigate the elementary waters of being chancellor and not pissing off the President. I am sure he would be just great at leading a much more complicated system with lots more egos.

He was unable to finish the laps around the pool, but he looked like he was swimming hard and I am backing him in the triathlon!

Dr. Frist is a man who came from a family where he could have sat around on his rear end for the rest of his life lighting cigars with 100 dollar bills. He went to medical school and became a sought after physician. He then became a well respected political leader. He knows that there is not a higher office to aspire to.

Bill Frist is a reach and would almost certainly not condescend to take the job. If he did, he would be in a position in terms of credibility, intellect and financial wherewithal that no UT President has been in during my lifetime.

We are likely going to end up with another person who got their PHD from Weber State and spent their life sucking on the teat of academics through administrative roles...It will be painful.

I want someone who can grow our strengths and raise a ton of money and increase our prestige through hiring well respected academics who will attract bright students who want to learn and create together.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
If I could pluck anybody in the world out of his current situation and stick him in that job, I'd obviously want Loren Crabtree back. He did an outstanding job as UT-Knoxville chancellor before being run out by Petersen over political issues. I'd love him to see him come back with a mandate to improve the whole UT system.

Regardless, I want a president with a strong record as an academic administrator. For once. We never hire one, and our academics never get any better. Funny how that works, isn't it?
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The KnoxNews article mentioned a Johns Hopkins Dean. Can't really do too much better for that, especially in the realm of R&D.
 
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Meh. I don't even think the Dean of Ag school is really that great. I'd say go with the general!
 
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Vercingetorix said:
If I could pluck anybody in the world out of his current situation and stick him in that job, I'd obviously want Loren Crabtree back. He did an outstanding job as UT-Knoxville chancellor before being run out by Petersen over political issues. I'd love him to see him come back with a mandate to improve the whole UT system.

Regardless, I want a president with a strong record as an academic administrator. For once. We never hire one, and our academics never get any better. Funny how that works, isn't it?
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I saw some guy from THEC on the list. Please keep any of them away.
 
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Must be the high unemployment rate that makes for so many applications??
 
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MikeHamiltonFan said:
Verc you have one candidate. He has not demonstrated that he can navigate the elementary waters of being chancellor and not pissing off the President. I am sure he would be just great at leading a much more complicated system with lots more egos.

He was unable to finish the laps around the pool, but he looked like he was swimming hard and I am backing him in the triathlon!

Dr. Frist is a man who came from a family where he could have sat around on his rear end for the rest of his life lighting cigars with 100 dollar bills. He went to medical school and became a sought after physician. He then became a well respected political leader. He knows that there is not a higher office to aspire to.

Bill Frist is a reach and would almost certainly not condescend to take the job. If he did, he would be in a position in terms of credibility, intellect and financial wherewithal that no UT President has been in during my lifetime.

We are likely going to end up with another person who got their PHD from Weber State and spent their life sucking on the teat of academics through administrative roles...It will be painful.

I want someone who can grow our strengths and raise a ton of money and increase our prestige through hiring well respected academics who will attract bright students who want to learn and create together.
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The man stood on the Senate floor and claimed that his opinion "as a doctor" was that he knew more about Terry Schiavo's condition than her own doctors from what he'd seen on TV, sacrificing his credibility and intellect on the altar of the politics of the day. Too bad it blew up in his face and ruined his presidential aspirations. But it did provide absolute proof that Frist is every bit as much of a naked opportunist as every other professional pol. As I said, we've seen that movie before, starring Lamar Alexander.

I only have "one candidate" because I don't keep a list in my pocket of the great college administrators at other schools. I have no idea who they are; that's what a search committee is for.

You want a celebrity. I want a university president.
 
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Why did Talbot not have to be recused when it came to the vote?

Askew and Talbot have deep ties.

If Askew is President of UT and Fulmer is the AD I will begin to resemble Hatvol with Bruce Pearl when it comes to actively laughing and mocking the ruin that the BOT is coming up with.
 
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MikeHamiltonFan said:
Why did Talbot not have to be recused when it came to the vote?

Askew and Talbot have deep ties.

If Askew is President of UT and Fulmer is the AD I will begin to resemble Hatvol with Bruce Pearl when it comes to actively laughing and mocking the ruin that the BOT is coming up with.
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What are you talking about?
 
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Top five candidates with the top two being a toss up:

1. Joe Di'Pietro, UT Intsitute of Agriculture Chancellor.
(my favorite)

2. Brian Noland, West Virginia Higher Education Policy Comission Chancellor.

3. Craig Fitzhugh, Democratic State Representative, Chariman and CEO of the Bank of Ripley and Chairman of the Tennessee House Finance Ways and Means Committee.
(my least favorite)

4. Robert McGrath, Battelle Memorial Institute consultant.

5. Jerry Askew, Mercy Health Partners external relations Vice President.

All five are invited to on campus interviews next week.
 
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Interesting, although I will not pretend to have any idea who is best suited for the job.
 
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