[jazzlite]

Wow! The potential corruption which can go in in the office of college and university presidents is now out there. My husband used to work on a college staff and he told me that essentially, the college president is about raising money, just like a politician, and that he is also, essentially, a dictator. Most of the time the trustees will go along with the head rolling, etc. I guess in this case, the choice was too threatening for people to stay totally quiet.

[Dahoser]

Sometimes the flashlight you need to see things turns up in an odd place. The Columbia investigation should not overlook this insight into the recent history of NASA.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Based on this article, does anyone think it was a conincidence that BU made a bad hiring decision?

[harrowup]

Goldin was a perfect Clinton sick-o at NASA and no one should wonder why that agency developed such arrogance and distain for self-examination.

Having said that, it would be very hard to out-arrogant Silber.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

What is hilarious about this is Goldin was paid $1.8 million to leave a job he had never actually started. He was terminated before he was to start work.

[Lessismore]

No wonder the US space program is totally screwed up.

[Semi Civil Servant]

Goldin is more proof that if an idiot can somehow get to the top, most of America's businesses, governments, and institutions will keep offering that idiot top jobs no matter how crappy his past performance. It's pathetic.

"Chainsaw Al" is the prototype.

[Tijeras_Slim]

"The graveyards
are full of indispensable men." ~ Charles De Gaulle

[Drango]

after a rushed search

Nonsense. Acadamia spends way too long in these searches.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

What an innovative fundraising technique! Get a contract to run a university and then piss off enough people that they buy you out and finance your business plans. Entrepreneur Of The Year!

[bert]

The old order changeth, yielding place to the old order...

[Lancey Howard]

Silber established Goldin as the front-runner, seeing him as a strong leader who could help land big donations and lucrative federal grants

When the trustees heard that, the search for a president was over.

[BansheeBill]

On Howie Carr's Boston based radio show last friday, he detailed the Boston University Trustees who had contracts (or who had ties to companies with contracts) with BU, for consulting or services. Many of these contracts were in the millions of dollars. Some contracts were with personal friends and associates of John Silber. It was a pretty amazing list. Supposedly Goldin also wanted to end these conflicts of interest on the board. That may be the biggest part of his not getting the job.

[VOA]

bump

[WaterDragon]

lucrative federal grants

This is what those big universities live off....our tax dollars.

And they have the audacity to call themselves 'private'.