The job pays SIX figures and there is no telling how much he even has to show up, but at least their cheerleaders wear chaps. Rah.
Posted on 08/14/2014 4:07:15 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
More than eight years after he took his last snap as quarterback of the Texas Longhorns, Vince Young is back with the university in a new capacity.
The school announced Thursday that Young, who led the Longhorns to the 2005 national championship, will work for the school’s Division of Diversity and Community Engagement (DDCE). Beginning September 1, he will serve as a “development officer for program alumni relations” where his job will be to raise funds for programs “that address the educational challenges” of both first-generation college students and students who come from “low-income backgrounds.”
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Colleges must get federal funds based on drawing in first generation students because 10 years ago I recall that being mentioned at the orientation my daughter attended for college. But doesn’t this sound like a made up position to save their wonder boy from ending up in the ghetto since he couldn’t manage his millions?
First Generation students don’t necessarily get more money. They are kids whose parents did not go to college and may not understand the commitment, the setbacks that can happen and how to advocate for themselves in the college environment, especially if the parents are immigrants (yes, that includes legal immigrants).
Some backgrounds, particularly Hispanic, will put pressure on daughters to stay close to home, preferably at home, and be a fully contributing member of the household while attending school and household contributions take priority.
The student may be academically capable for a physics degree, but if she’s not allowed to stay after class to study or use the lab or can’t come to class at all because family stuff comes first, she’s probably not going to graduate.
Actually, yes it does but that doesn't bother me. Earl Campbell (Heisman Trophy, 1979) has been an overpaid course compliance counselor there for a long time. I'm sure he's paid to also show up at major football events and pitch in with recruiting.
The university made a ton of money on Vince Young's legs when he was an "amateur", so I really don't have a problem with him making a portion of it back from the school now.
Rickey Williams (Heisman Trophy, 1998) also hangs around UT doing a number of things, including commentary on ESPN's "Longhorn Network".
If meeting former star players convinces current recruits to come to Austin, seems like money well spent.
The job pays SIX figures and there is no telling how much he even has to show up, but at least their cheerleaders wear chaps. Rah.
“first-generation college students...” = not White
“underserved kids...” = not White
Belly Girls!!
I’m so old, I can remember when UT was a high caliber school.
“Division of Diversity and Community Engagement”
Is this a joke?
.
No.
Signed,
DDCE.
At the college where I taught when I was younger, EEOC made a stink about there not being enough African-Americans in the administrative staff. The college had, a few years earlier, removed the position of VP upon the previous VP's retirement, so in order to appease EEOC, they reopened the position, interviewed five people, and hired the one African-American. Everyone knew why, and no one would talk about it. His job consisted of making sure the college met diversity guidelines. After a few years, he was so tired of being the third wheel that he asked to have his position made part-time, and he ran for and won a post on the city commission--then he tragically got cancer and died. What a waste of money, time, and a man's life.
So a position that an actual qualified applicant should fill, is just a way to pay off an old football player and that is fine with you. The fact that he sounds like a 12 year old is fine with you even if it reflects on your school, because he made money for the school. I find that very sad. I like to have qualifed people hired, not affirmative action hires.
In other words, he’ll let people see his Heisman. He did win it, didn’t he?
Sad, isn’t it? I don’t understand how anyone would be proud of an affirmative action hire when the person hired is not qualified to handle most entry level minimum wage jobs, much less represent a presigious University.
......I was there as a student in the mid sixties until the draft caught up to me in 1967 and I ended up on active duty in the USNR.
About that time the school was PRIMARILY being run by Frank Erwin, a pretty conservative and “basics” guy even though he famously received a DWI by Austin’s finest. At the time, it was a big deal. Now, not so much. Our “District Attorney” recently got one too.
As of recent years, UT A and the system have been run by this guy Powers who is as liberal as you can get and, like his ilk in the White House, it showed in nearly everything he did.
Now he is gone and replaced by this outstanding Navy Seals Admiral. Sorry, I forget his name at the moment. He’s a former student at about the same time I was there.
Knowing liberal Austin politics like I do, this was and IS a BIG DEAL. Rest assured Rick Perry and other selected regents (not all of them) rammed this appointment through.
Underneath Powers, there is a rotten Professorship system that abuses tenure and everything else. Perry, and these other regents want to see that mess backed waaaaayyyyyy up, if not eliminated and they are very formidable in conservative Texas.
So, don’t give up on the Longhorns yet! LOL, both my kids went to A & M and both graduated from there.
affirmative action hire....
“So a position that an actual qualified applicant should fill...”
It’s a “job” that shouldn’t exist in a useless department.
Of course it is, but at the very least it can be a new recruiting tool for the atheletic department - blow your millions and we will give you a job anyway
Division of Diversity and Community Engagement
Why does a school even need a useless “Division” like this? At least they gave it the correct designation: DIVISION, because that’s what these things cause.
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