Posted on 12/23/2016 8:55:08 AM PST by reaganaut1
The University of Texas has a governing body – the Board of Regents -- that is supposed to oversee its administration. In recent years, one regent has taken his job “too seriously” in the view of top university officials, probing into matters they wanted kept dark and quiet. He was determined to investigate all threats he perceived to the university’s integrity, but school bigwigs so obstructed him that he has been compelled to take them to court.
The regent is Wallace Hall. Mr. Hall, a graduate of UT himself, was appointed to the University of Texas Board of Regents in February 2011 by then-governor Rick Perry.
Hall soon began to suspect corruption and mismanagement. He acted as regents are supposed to, probing for facts.
First, there was a scandal involving a large slush fund run by the dean of the law school, allowing him to hand out “forgivable loans” to select faculty members. The university’s president, William Powers, promised an investigation by an in-house lawyer, who dutifully produced a “nothing to see here” report. Hall argued that the matter required a more objective assessment, but his complaints were ignored.
Quoted in this piece, Hall said, “I was overruled. That’s when I first felt like, one, there’s a problem at UT, and, two, the system has set up a scheme that gives the opportunity for a less than robust investigation.”
But Hall kept pushing the Board to insist that the Texas attorney general’s office dig into the matter. It did, and then the truth finally came out that the dean of the law school was using the fund simply to hand out favors, including a $500,000 “loan” to himself. The AG’s report brought down the house of cards.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Not to morally equivocate here, but corruption can be found in any institution having someone who willing to dig it out and to take the heat for doing so.
The UT system is corrupt both in admissions and financially. Worse, it provides sinecures and influence to leftists who are not nearly qualified to be teaching or researching at the university level and who can only jokingly be referred to as “professors”. Unfortunately, the UT alum network uncritically protects UT, and Abbott isn’t tough enough to clean house at UT. So, the “studies” departments will continue to be a cancer on UT, along with affirmative action (disguised by the 10% rule and “holistic” admissions) and the rest of the corruption found by Hall.
1984 PIG.
This damned conservative Republicans at UT are robbing the taxpayer blind. Oh, wait. This is UT in Texas. How much would you care to wager that they are 100% Democrats? Laws are for other people, not them.
And that's why this is a story.
I’ve known many people who dug out the story, took the heat and were terminated...some in Chicago terminated without prejudice.
It is rare that the story makes the local news, let alone Forbes.
It isn’t just the MSM. Our society has tremendous pressure on people to be nice and only be positive. Never mention the ugly truth.
The University of Texas is Berkeley East. If you want to give Texas an enema you stick the hose into Austin.
UT is nothing but a demoncrat liberal stronghold. Whatever comes down on them is well deserved. Let them have their perv restrooms. Let them wave their giant sex toys to protest campus carry. Let them admit illegals and give them full rides. Let them allow muzlims holler and get in passerbys’ faces. It’s no wonder responsible doctors won’t give bc sponges or IUDs to their student patients because of the high STD rates. One day, it’ll bite them hard.
Speaking of the Law School, they were the ones who discriminated against white students and got their butts handed to them in court. Part of the judgment was the Top Ten Rule which stated any Texas high school graduate in the top 10% of his class would get an automatic acceptance to a state university of his choice. Ex-President Powers got his panties in a wad claiming the ruling wouldn’t allow him to fill out the football team so he’d have to shut down UT Longhorn football. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! As if! Such a liar. So, back to the Legislature it went wasting time and tax dollars. The legislature had pity on UT, snort, and lowered the ruling on them to the top 8% but every other university in the state would still have to abide by the top 10% even though they’d done nothing wrong and weren’t in the original law suit. But, hey, UT is *special*.
Sounds like they have grounds to fire the in house legal staff who produced the fake coverup reports as well as many more.
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This Native Texan says, BRAVO!!"
Mind if I borrow that? Perhaps (paraphrased) as a tagline:
Resetting to usual tagline...
Did you maybe mean to say, "Terminated with extreme prejudice?"
Nah, it waz nutten personal, just business....
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