Jan Simek Should Be Fired Immediately.

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General Jack said:
Where the heck is the motivation coming from for all this watering down of the Knoxville campus anyway? I just don't understand the logic of moving away from the flagship campus model.
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This is a perfect example of what happens when serious decisions are placed in the hands of socialist academicians and they try to mold universities into their own little egalatarian utopias.
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hatvol96 said:
This is a perfect example of what happens when serious decisions are placed in the hands of socialist academicians and they try to mold universities into their own little egalatarian utopias.
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Is he considering moving his office to PAC 10 area?
 
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We lost this battle when Loren Crabtree was forced out. The Board of Trustees made it clear that we're stuck with this lame least common denominator approach. How the hell can you even pretend that you're interested in building the flagship campus into a great public university if you're worried about "jealousy among UT's other campuses"? The state of Tennessee deserves a great public university as much as Georgia does, but we're never going to have one, because the whole system has to be kept on the same crappy level thanks to those losers in Chattanooga and Martin. The entire public university system is held hostage to the feelings of a bunch of second-rate academics who work at a couple of glorified community colleges.

My kids are probably going to end up being leghumping Georgia Bulldogs, and this crap right here is the reason why.
 
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General Jack said:
Where the heck is the motivation coming from for all this watering down of the Knoxville campus anyway? I just don't understand the logic of moving away from the flagship campus model.
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It is being done in the guise of "budgetary savings". However, I can tell you that there has been a movement to a more communal model where every institution in the state is equal in the eyes of the public. Just two small examples are the UT logo (the U and the T form the state) change that all universities use now and our emails use tennessee.edu rather than utk.edu (although they have not totally changed over). There are many more examples and reasons too numerous to cover here.
 
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exotic_vols said:
I don't like Jan Simek at all. He was at my brother's graduation this year, he is an ugly man who appears to be so distant from students and professors.

On top of that, I was always opposed to this bull idea about "decentralizing" to make other campus "feel better". All campuses serve different purposes. Flagship should have the most resources to achieve the highest possible academic and research capacity and represents the public education of the state. Other much smaller campuses provide people around the state public education opportunities, just like state-run community colleges. Look at all those big ten states, and east coast states, that's how it should work.

I remember his last tenure was at UF. Let me say this, Simek is the devil sent by gators to distract the development of The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Go away Simek!
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You're thinking about Jimmy Cheek.Simek has been at ut since 1984
 
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hatvol96 said:
This is a perfect example of what happens when serious decisions are placed in the hands of socialist academicians and they try to mold universities into their own little egalatarian utopias.
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I'll lay this at the feet of the Board of Trustees for the negligent hires of Gilley, Shumaker and Petersen. Remember before Gilley our presidents were Johnson, Alexander, Boling and Holt.
 
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Is this some kind of ploy to get BJ eligible in a UT uniform again? Not all of us want him back
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tripper said:
I'll lay this at the feet of the Board of Trustees for the negligent hires of Gilley, Shumaker and Petersen. Remember before Gilley our presidents were Johnson, Alexander, Boling and Holt.
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Lamar Alexander was an utter failure as UT president.
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tripper said:
I was in Athens for a conference earlier this week and I was really blown away by their commitment to teaching, research and service and it all stems from leadership. We have been a ship without a rudder for 10 years now. We have had 5 presidents over the past 10 years or so and Simek is the consumate suck-up to the faculty senate thus his two interim appointments as Chancellor and President. Cheek better get a hold on this place before it is literally run into the ground.
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The Georgia model works. There isn't a University of Georgia, Athens, and a University of Georiga, Macon, and a University of Georgia, Augusta Augusta -- there's just one entity, based in Athens, and it's part of the University System of Georgia at large. Tennessee essentially has two competing systems -- the UT system and the Board of Regents system (ETSU, MTSU, TN Tech, TN State, etc). By tiering it out twice like that, you have extra bureaucracy, more budget conflicts -- and, most importantly, you flatten the politics out so that more people have their hands in the pie. The UT system has to fight for resources against the Regents system, which involves garnering political support from around the state. So that means when UT has to turn around and allocate back out the resources it wins to its various campuses, the BOT and president have to worry about the hurt feelings of everybody in Chattanooga and Martin and Tullahoma and so on, because now he's beholden to them politically. The president of the University of Georgia never has to give a crap what they think in Kennesaw or Valdosta or Statesboro because he never needs them for anything. They're competitors from the start. Tennessee's two-system approach is an inefficient mess.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
We lost this battle when Loren Crabtree was forced out. The Board of Trustees made it clear that we're stuck with this lame least common denominator approach. How the hell can you even pretend that you're interested in building the flagship campus into a great public university if you're worried about "jealousy among UT's other campuses"? The state of Tennessee deserves a great public university as much as Georgia does, but we're never going to have one, because the whole system has to be kept on the same crappy level thanks to those losers in Chattanooga and Martin. The entire public university system is held hostage to the feelings of a bunch of second-rate academics who work at a couple of glorified community colleges.

My kids are probably going to end up being leghumping Georgia Bulldogs, and this crap right here is the reason why.
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Amen, brother. I hope Petersen and Simek roast in hell for this if it comes to pass.

As much of a deuce Michael Adams is, he is thrice the administrator as either of those clowns.

I hear good things about Cheek, but I think he may be pissing in the wind here, unfortunately.
Here's hoping UT can get it together over the next 16 years or so. I really want at least one of my kids to become a 4th generation Volunteer.
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One concrete way that Tennessee's system sucks compares to Georgia's: when UGA became flush with cash from lottery money, they were able to attract top professors, raise standards, and improve the hell out of UGA to the point where it's actually a really good school now. You can't just follow the same process at UTK now, lottery money or no, because you can't spend a dollar in Knoxville without somebody in Chattanooga whining about it.
 
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hatvol96 said:
This is a perfect example of what happens when serious decisions are placed in the hands of socialist academicians and they try to mold universities into their own little egalatarian utopias.
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Right on.
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hatvol96 said:
Harold Ford, Jr. or Jim Clayton.
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Junior Ford? Really?

Have you seen the schools in Memphis?

(I know he isn't over those, but having gone through the city of Memphis and having my parents pick private for every year of schooling, I just fear that choice...)
 
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somewhere Andy Holt spins like a top
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look at this guy... he should have been thrown out on this pic alone... that and "Jan"

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Please tell me if I'm wrong in my assumption, but would a good first step in helping out the broken system is to merge the Board of Regents sytem with the UT system, thus creating a system similar in style to the North Carolina system?
 
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hatvol96 said:
Harold Ford, Jr. or Jim Clayton.
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Interesting. He was the commencement speaker at my UT graduation in 2003.

I still think he is trying to line himself up for a future run President. I have a bad feeling that he would be like Simek in being to "political" with the smaller branches.
 
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