You have to be nut to take that job now. First of all, the school is in a tailspin. Secondly, the far left that runs the place will demand you be their lapdog, or they will destroy you.
I nominate Dean Wormer.
Evergreen State College. Never heard of ya, Pal.
Will they be open in the fall?
Evergreen college went ‘Woke’ 20 years ago.
I am actually kind shocked that one of the applicants is a retired Navy Vice Admiral. What was he thinking?
You could...um...ask them?
The gorilla in the room -
Trustee David Nicandri said the common conceit about the college is that its biggest challenge is in recruitment and retention, but he also cited a “deeper set of problems” facing the college, which he did not identify.
One of those (at least) is that the radicals in the faculty and administration own the playpen and like things exactly as they are, thank you very much, and never mind if the college goes broke because they can always tap the state for more money. It's worked up to now.
“Paging Jane Sanders, we need your expertise!”
I’ll shut down the place, fire everybody, kick the spoiled brats off campus, make it all online and hire a few competent staff to run it and slash tuition. For half the salary.
Where do I sign?
Evergreen State was a disaster even before that. Higher education as designed by Franz Kafka...”write your own curriculum”, “make your lab notes in pen only...NO erasing”...”what grade do you think you earned”.
One of my high school classmates was forced to go there by his mother. He’s not even remotely conservative, but he openly calls his time there the worst experience of his life, and says that if it weren’t for a few good friends he made during the ordeal, he’d never go anywhere near the campus or Olympia ever again.
How about the Pope? He’s far enough to the left, and he needs a day job.
The article provides no details on why the candidates withdrew, but my guess is that the nature of the interviews, along with the “community” feedback, made them realize that they were dealing with psychopaths and they wanted nothing to do with it.
I nominate Richard Widmark (Tommy Udo).
Can anyone list one valid reason why decent, rational people should pay taxes to support this institution?
In other words, "You will have no authority". Even the most "woke" candidate knows that under these conditions, they will eventually become the target of the ultra-radical student body.
Too bad G Gordon Liddy is no longer available.
I haven’t followed any of their insanity in a few years, but I can only imagine how much worse it has gotten now.
I don’t blame anyone for not wanting to touch that mess. No matter what you do, it will be wrong, won’t be enough and if you finally do something right according to them, they will find a new issue to go after.
I nominate Bret Weinstein, the only one at Evergreen to stand up to the mob. He is no longer at Evergreen, but they should bring him back.
They should allow the students to take turns running the place. Each member of the student body gets a week or two to do as they please, then on to the next woke teenager. In fact it should be a requirement . . . the way science, literature, Western civ and three semesters of a foreign language used to be.