Archives for 2016

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05/31/16 — A Few Thoughts about the Tuition Hikes and UNI’s Interim Prez.

05/29/16 — J. Bruce Harreld, Leadership and Sexual Assault.

05/24/16 — Gaming out the Iowa Regents’ Presidential Search at UNI. Updated.

05/21/16 — J. Bruce Harreld, Pollock’s ‘Mural’ and the UI Museum of Art. Part 1. Part 2.

05/20/16 — J. Bruce Harreld, Boston Chicken and the 7547 Partners Lawsuit.

05/19/16 — UNI President Ruud announced that he’s leaving to take a job at a much smaller school. In typical passive-aggressive fashion, the Rastetter-led Board of Regents left Ruud hanging without a contract extension. I expect a closed search predicated on lies told by Rastetter and Robillard after they got caught running the fraudulent search for J. Bruce Harreld at Iowa. There’s no conscience in any of this, and no concern for the students.

05/17/16 — J. Bruce Harreld and the Marcus Owens Case.

05/16/16 — J. Bruce Harreld and the Local Business Community.

05/15/16 — The four candidates for Director of Public Safety at the University of Iowa have been named, and three have visited campus. On that subject, the Des Moines Register gave that department a ‘thorn’ today for the way in which it initially bungled the Marcus Owens case. (Remember when J. Bruce Harreld said there was “no there, there“? Good times.)

05/13/16 — A few thoughts about this weekend’s UI graduation ceremony. Updated.

05/11/16 — J. Bruce Harreld and Collaborative Budgeting.

05/08/16 — J. Bruce Harreld and the Question of Trust.

05/06/16 — Mike Richards Appointed to the Iowa Board of Regents.

05/06/16 — On Wednesday, Brad Pector put up a well-argued and well-sourced post on J. Bruce Harreld, right into the teeth of a media storm. If you missed it, it’s worth a read for the insight it gives into Harreld’s obliviousness.

05/04/16 — J. Bruce Harreld at Six Months.

05/03/16 — J. Bruce Harreld: Hate Speech Victim.

05/01/16 — J. Bruce Harreld, Misogyny and UI Athletics.

04/29/16 — Updating the Andringa Resignation and the Strategic Planning Debacle.

04/28/16 — A few notes on the resignation of Regent Mary Andringa. Updated.

04/27/16 — J. Bruce Harreld Pulls a Fast One.

04/24/16 — J. Bruce Harreld and the Gartner Plan. Updated.

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04/21/16 — J. Bruce Harreld and the Daily Iowan Interview. Updated.

04/18/16 — J. Bruce Harreld and Campus Sexual Assault. Updated.

04/15/16 — J. Bruce Harreld and the Regents’ 2016 Funding Rebuke.

04/10/16 — The President That J. Bruce Harreld Will Never Be.

04/07/16 — Raise.me Scrubs Gates Foundation From ‘About’ Page.

04/04/16 — Revisiting the AAUP Report on the Harreld Hire in Detail.

04/02/16 — Regents President Rastetter and Performance Based Failure.

03/29/16 — Regents President Rastetter and the Meaning of Encouragement.

03/27/16 — Regents President Rastetter Makes a New Claim.

03/23/16 — Dr. Robillard and Col. Kurtz.

03/21/16 — The University of Iowa has begun advertising for a new Director of Public Safety. This is a small but important step in dealing with the intertwined issues of alcohol abuse and sexual assault on campus. The obvious concern, of course, is that the last nationwide search at the University of Iowa resulted in the hiring of someone who was fundamentally unqualified for the position he now holds.

03/16/16 — J. Bruce Harreld and the Raise.me Rollout.

03/14/16 — At the recent University of Iowa town hall, business genius and Harvard MBA J. Bruce Harreld said, during what is now infamously known as the Peanut Butter Fillibuster: “In economics, [it] is the notion that you actually could, without cutting, take resources and put more of them over other areas than all the areas at the same times. Some areas get more, and some get less. That’s not a cut.” Yesterday, in a guest column on the Gazette site, UI Professor Ahmed E. Souaiaia wrote that disabled students at the University of Iowa are now getting less peanut butter. I’m sure those students look forward to Harreld explaining how the reallocation of peanut butter away from services for disabled students is not a cut.

03/13/16 — J. Bruce Harreld and Shared Governance.

03/09/16 — Gender Discrimination and the Harreld Hire.

03/06/16 — J. Bruce Harreld: “There’s no there, there.”

03/05/16 — I am working on a post about the Visin debacle, but I need to wait for my keyboard to cool down so I can backspace through all the swearing. In the meantime, you should consider reading Bleeding Heartland’s excellent post on the same subject.

03/03/16 — J. Bruce Harreld and Transformational Change. Updated 03/04/16.

03/02/16 — Simon Newman, the ‘non-traditional’ president at Mount St. Mary’s college, resigned on Monday. If you read nothing else today, read Jack Striplng’s excellent report in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Then remind yourself that when J. Bruce Harreld wasn’t impressing himself at IBM, he was driving two companies into bankruptcy.

02/28/16 — J. Bruce Harreld: the Liar and the Lie.