DITCHWALK

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02/06/19 — If you haven’t read this story, it’s an exceedingly bad look for the University of Iowa. The best-case scenario is that it describes jaw-dropping incompetence. The worst-case scenario is that J. Bruce Harreld was moved to assist a Chinese student in maintaining his progress toward a degree.  (See posts below on 01/02/19 and 01/05/19 for more.)

01/18/19 — The 2020 Task Force Phase II Final Report.

01/05/19 — J. Bruce Harreld, China, and America’s National Security Interests.

01/02/19 — Fresh off Harreld’s obligatory appearance with the UI Football team in Tampa — not far from his multi-million-dollar vacation home in Jacksonville — I was not expecting additional media availabilities until the start of the academic year. Silly me. Here’s Harreld giving an exceedingly conciliatory interview to Chinese media. Related concerns here.

12/29/18 — In Which J. Bruce Harreld Continues His Petty, Bratty, Vindictive Persecution of the UI Labor Center.

12/16/18 — A Slate of Updates About J. Bruce Harreld and the University of Iowa.

12/02/18 — The Secret to J. Bruce Harreld’s Entrepreneurial Success at the University of Iowa.

11/28/18 — The Daily Iowan’s Marissa Payne reported today on the deep political and financial connections of members of the Iowa Board of Regents, including particularly President Michael Richards. It is a straightforward accounting of how beholden Richards and a majority of the board are to the Republican party.

11/12/18 — Predictably, J. Bruce Harreld’s Entrepreneurial Insurgency Begins With a Lie.

11/03/18 — The Iowa Board of Regents and the 2018 Elections.

10/24/18 — J. Bruce Harreld at Three Years — Part 4: Stabbing the Faculty in the Back.

10/14/18 — J. Bruce Harreld at Three Years — Part 3: Putting Women at Risk of Sexual Abuse.

10/03/18 — J. Bruce Harreld at Three Years — Part 2: Iowa’s U.S. News Ranking Implosion.

09/24/18 — J. Bruce Harreld at Three Years — Part 1: The Children’s Hospital Construction Debacle. Updated 09/28/18.

09/05/18 — Harreld the Ogre Slashes and Burns the UI Labor Center — Part 6: Fighting the Good Fight.

08/26/18 — Harreld the Ogre Slashes and Burns the UI Labor Center — Part 5: The Leadership Lie.

08/19/18 — Harreld the Ogre Slashes and Burns the UI Labor Center — Part 4: The Motive Lie.

08/12/18 — Harreld the Ogre Slashes and Burns the UI Labor Center — Part 3: The Process Lie.

08/07/18 — Harreld the Ogre Slashes and Burns the UI Labor Center — Part 2: The Mission Lie.

08/02/18 — Harreld the Ogre Slashes and Burns the UI Labor Center — Part 1: The Funding Lie.

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07/15/18 — J. Bruce Harreld and the UI Student Housing Market.

07/08/18 — A must-read report on the chaotic and reckless construction process of the new UI children’s hospital, from the Gazette’s Vanessa Miller.

07/05/18 — J. Bruce Harreld and the Mike Crow/ASU Playbook — Part 2.

07/02/18 — J. Bruce Harreld and the Mike Crow/ASU Playbook — Part 1.

06/18/18 — J. Bruce Harreld Tells (More) Lies to the Daily Iowan. Updated 06/20/18.

06/04/18 — Reassessing the Integrity and Credibility of the Iowa Board of Regents.

05/28/18 — J. Bruce Harreld and the UI Employment Practices Whitewash.

05/20/18 — The Bunker Mentality of J. Bruce Harreld – Now With Loaded Guns.

05/13/18 — J. Bruce Harreld Lawyers Up.

05/07/18 — About That “New” Budget Model at the University of Iowa.

05/01/18 — That didn’t take long. The Gazette’s Vanessa Miller reports that J. Bruce Harreld is killing off Iowa’s 70-year-old Institute of Public Affairs.

04/30/18 — Long-Simmering Problems at UI Healthcare are Coming to a Boil.

04/25/18 — Which UI Centers and Institutes Will Harreld the Ogre Slash and Burn? Updated.

04/19/18 — Larry McKibben Has Had Enough of ‘Casino’ Kim Reynolds.

04/17/18 — Updating the UI 2020 Academic Organizational Task Force.

04/15/18 — J. Bruce Harreld Turns on the University of Iowa.

04/08/18 — Tuition Hikes, Naming Rights, Textbook Taxes and More.

04/01/18 — Two Weeks Until Crunch Time: Taxes, Tuition and the 2020 Task Force.

03/25/18 — How State Legislatures and Governing Boards Prey on Higher-Ed Students. With particular attention paid to Iowa Representative Pat Grassley, R-New Hartford.

03/18/18 — J. Bruce Harreld at the Halfway Point. It’s all downhill from here.

03/04/18 — Part 7 of Designing the New American University: a Book Review in Context. What Mike Crow’s book is really about and who it is for.

03/01/18 — Part 6 of Designing the New American University: a Book Review in Context. Covers the period between publication in March of 2015 and today.

02/25/18 — Part 5 of Designing the New American University: a Book Review in Context. Covers the second half of chapter seven — p. 267-297 — and the conclusion. Updated 03/05/18.

02/22/18 — Part 4 of Designing the New American University: a Book Review in Context. Covers the first half of chapter seven — p. 240-267.

02/18/18 — Part 3 of Designing the New American University: a Book Review in Context. Covers chapters five and six.

02/16/18 — A few quick thoughts on the now-annual conjecture that UIHC might be privatized or partner with a commercial healthcare provider.

02/15/18 — Part 2 of Designing the New American University: a Book Review in Context. Covers chapters three and four.

02/11/18 — Part 1 of Designing the New American University: a Book Review in Context. Covers the preface, acknowledgements and introduction, and chapters one and two.

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02/04/18 — Another One Bites the Dust: Administrative Turnover in the Time of Harreld.

01/28/18 — Iowa’s Rapidly Devolving Higher-Ed Budget Battle.

01/21/18 — Wendy Wintersteen Talks Tuition and Funding Cuts.

01/14/18 — Casino Kim’s FY19 Higher-Ed Budget Proposal.

12/29/17 — Jerre Stead’s Hostile Takeover of the University of Iowa.

12/21/17 — The Perfidious Administrative Priorities of Interim Provost Sue Curry.

12/15/17 — By Way of Thanks to the UI Faculty Senate.

12/03/17 — J. Bruce Harreld and the Proxy Provost.

11/30/17 — What the VPMA/CoM Search Tells Us About the CLAS Search at UI.

11/21/17 — Dismantling the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences — Phase I.

11/11/17 — A short note on Interim Provost Sue Curry’s Crusade to Destroy the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

10/29/17 — What the Wintersteen Hire Tells Us About J. Bruce Harreld.

10/20/17 — The Iowa State Presidential Search in Context.

10/16/17 — For all the right reasons, Art Cullen, editor of the Storm Lake Times, comes out hard against Wendy Wintersteen for president of Iowa State.

10/08/17 — The Conspiratorial Lies of Jerre Stead and J. Bruce Harreld.

09/28/17 — Updating the Iowa State Presidential Search.

09/24/17 — For Students at UNI, ISU and UI: the Tuition Task Force Explained.

09/17/17 — The Student Guide to the Iowa Tuition Task Force.

09/10/17 — A Defining Moment for the Iowa Board of Regents — Part 2.

09/03/17 — A Defining Moment for the Iowa Board of Regents — Part 1.

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08/27/17 — J. Bruce Harreld and the UI Five-Year Tuition Proposal — Part 2.

08/21/17 — J. Bruce Harreld and the UI Five-Year Tuition Proposal — Part 1.

08/12/17 — The UNI and ISU Five-Year Tuition Proposals.

08/05/17 — The Iowa Board of Regents and the $91M Lie.

07/30/17 — Perusing the Tuition Task Force Reading Room.

07/27/17 — The Iowa Tuition Task Force is Exposed.

07/24/17 — Regent Larry McKibben, chair of the Iowa Tuition Task Force, has cancelled Thursday’s big meeting, and it will not be rescheduled. Reporting here, here and here.

07/23/17 — What the Iowa Tuition Task Force is Really About.

07/16/17 — What the Iowa Tuition Task Force is Not About.

07/03/17 — Reintroducing Steve McGuire to Reality.

06/25/17 — J. Bruce Harreld and the Tuition Task Farce — Part 4. Updated.

06/22/17 — J. Bruce Harreld and the Tuition Task Farce — Part 3.

06/18/17 — J. Bruce Harreld and the Tuition Task Farce — Part 2.

06/14/17 — J. Bruce Harreld and the Tuition Task Farce — Part 1.

06/04/17 — Today Tuition Hikes, Tomorrow a Task Force.

05/28/17 — Iowa Board of Regents President Mike Richards. Part 1. Part 2.

05/21/17 — J. Bruce Harreld and the UI Peer Group Tuition Lie: Part 2. (Part 1 was published on 05/17/17.)

05/19/17 — The University of Iowa has settled the case brought by Tracey Griesbaum, and reached a final agreement with Jane Meyer. UI press release here, which includes links to regents source docs. All moneys to be paid from Athletic Department funds.

05/17/17 — J. Bruce Harreld and the UI Peer Group Tuition Lie: Part 1.

05/03/17 — What Gary Barta Did to Jane Meyer. Updated 05/04/17.

04/27/17 — J. Bruce Harreld Makes His Move.

04/19/17 — The Riverside Recital Hall Remodel and the Levitt Center Lease.

04/12/17 — J. Bruce Harreld at Eighteen Months. Part 1. Part 2.

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03/29/17 — The End of the End for ISU President Steven Leath.

03/19/17 — J. Bruce Harreld Sheds His Skin. Part 1. Part 2.

03/09/17 — Iowa State President Steven Leath and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. Part 1. Part 2.

02/27/17 — Waste and Delay at the Stead Family Children’s Hospital of Iowa.

2/18/17 — Unraveling the Mysteries of the ISU Flight Services Supplemental Cirrus Log.

02/12/17 — In Demonstrating His Superior Judgment J. Bruce Harreld Proves He Is a Fraud. Part 1. Part 2. Updated 02/14/17.

02/10/17 — Regents President Bruce Rastetter will not seek a second-six year term on the board. His current term ends April 30th. Initial reports here, here and here.

02/02/17 — Steven Leath’s Rochester Trip That Violated ISU Travel Policy and State Law. Part 1. Part 2.

01/23/17 — Catching Up on the Last Six Weeks of J. Bruce Harreld’s Lies, With Bonus Steven Leath. Part 1. Part 2.

01/15/17 — Steven and Janet Leath’s $6,800 King Air 350 Round Trip to N.C. on 07/03/14.

01/10/17 — An Apples-to-Apples Comparison of Student Interviews With Sally Mason and Steven Leath. Part 1. Part 2.

12/31/16 — Why the Iowa Board of Regents Cannot Fire ISU President Steven Leath. Part 1. Part 2.

12/24/16 — Why Did Both of Iowa State’s Airplanes Fly to Northeast Illinois on the Same March Dates?

12/22/16 — The Problem with Using ISU Pilot Joe Crandall to Justify the Cirrus Round Trip on 03/12/16.

12/20/16 — ISU Flight Services Billed $3K in Per-Mile Charges for Leath and Wife on Empty Plane.

12/17/16 — The Regents Audit Did Not Exonerate ISU President Steven Leath of Criminal Acts. Updated 12/17/16. Updated 12/18/16 [1]. Updated 12/18/16 [2].

12/15/16 — Bleeding Heartland posted a tour de force on the failings of the regents audit, and why law enforcement must investigate Steven Leath.

12/10/16 — Say It Ain’t So, Joe: The 2016 UNI Presidential Search in Context.

12/01/16 — Engines of Anxiety and J. Bruce Harreld: A Book Review in Context.

11/20/16 — The Missing Piece of Iowa’s Tuition and Student Debt Conversation.

11/13/16 — There is No Iowa Board of Regents.

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11/10/16 — Iowa State President Steven Leath: Feudal Lord of Story County.

11/06/16 — ISU President Steven Leath: “I am open, honest and forthcoming.” (With bonus Harreld and UNI.)

11/01/16 — ISU President Steven Leath Is More Than a “Minor User” of the King Air 350.

10/30/16 — On Iowa State President Stephen Leath Having it Both Ways.

10/27/16 — Krapf vs. Iowa Board of Regents: Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss is DENIED.

10/25/16 — Steven Leath’s Use of the ISU King Air 350, Either Alone or With His Wife.

10/22/16 — An Unofficial Audit of the Iowa State Cirrus SR22 Flight Logs. Updated 10/23/16. Updated 10/24/16.

10/18/16 — Bruce Rastetter’s Serial Betrayals of the Iowa Board of Regents.

10/16/16 — Iowa State President Steven Leath: Honest Abe or Tricky Dick?

10/13/16 — The Middle of the End for ISU President Steven Leath — Part 2.

10/10/16 — The Middle of the End for ISU President Steven Leath — Part 1.

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10/06/16 — The Real Legacy of University of Iowa Traitor Jean Robillard.

10/01/16 — Wrong Way Leath and the Microburst Lie. Updated.

09/27/16 — J. Bruce Harreld and the UI ‘Speak Out Iowa’ Campus Climate Survey.

09/23/16 — J. Bruce Harreld Injects His Poison into the UI Faculty Ranks.

09/20/16 — J. Bruce Harreld and the UI Office of the Ombudsperson.

09/17/16 — On 03/22/16 Regents President Bruce Rastetter Lied to the Des Moines Register.

09/14/16 — J. Bruce Harreld’s 20-Year-Old Failed and Fake Ranking Plan From Kentucky.

09/11/16 — J. Bruce Harreld Officially Welcomes His Excellency J. Bruce Harreld. Part 1. Part 2. Updated.

09/08/16 — It’s not just me. Bleeding Heartland chronicles a year of posts about the Harreld hire.

09/06/16 — On the Origins of J. Bruce Harreld’s U.S. News Ranking Obsession. Part 1. Part 2.

09/03/16 — Bruce Rastetter, Joe Murphy, and the Iowa Board of Regents’ Revolving Door.

08/30/16 — Your Most Important Right as a University of Northern Iowa Presidential Candidate.

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08/28/16 — The Inevitable Damage to Come From J. Bruce Harreld’s Ranking Obsession.

08/26/16 — J. Bruce Harreld in Three Days: Confused, Compliant and Caustic.

08/23/16 — On Bruce Rastetter, Oversight, Politics, Business and Biofuels.

08/21/16 — The Moment When J. Bruce Harreld Sold Women Out and Went All-In on Gary Barta.

08/18/16 — Regents Appoint Abuser of UI Students, Faculty and Staff as Co-Chair of UNI Search.

08/15/16 — The Iowa Board of Regents Sics the Iowa AG on a Teacher the Board Abused.

08/14/16 — Iowa Regent Larry McKibben Tells a Lie Within a Lie Within a Lie.

08/12/16 — On Presidential Searches, Funding Splits and Regental Incoherence.

08/10/16 — Governor Terry Branstad Corrupted the Iowa Board of Regents.

08/08/16 — A Brief Administrative History of Bob Donley and Mark Braun. Updated.

08/06/16 — What You Don’t Know About 2016 UNI Presidential Search Firm AGB.

08/03/16 — Comparing the 2015 UI Presidential Search to the 2016 UNI Search (So Far). Updated.

07/31/16 — Bruce Rastetter and the Common Application Portal Scam.

07/26/16 — On the Iowa Board of Regents, Fairness and the UNI Search.

07/23/16 — J. Bruce Harreld and Big Data. Part 1. Part 2. Updated.

07/21/16 — The Iowa Board of Regents and the UNI Search Firm Search.

07/19/16 — The Iowa Board of Regents as Crony Political Machine.

07/17/16 — Ten Months of J. Bruce Harreld’s Mendacity in One UI Press Release.