Rick O'Donnell: The Emails
With the exception of the chancellor, most hiring decisions at the University of Texas System go largely unnoticed or, at the very least, provoke little discussion, outside the innermost circles of higher education observers. That has not been the case with regents chairman Gene Powell's decision to hire higher education reformer Rick O'Donnell, who has in a matter of weeks gone from special adviser to the board of regents to special assistant for research to soon-to-be former system employee.
O'Donnell's position initially raised eyebrows with its high-priced annual salary ($200,000) at a time when budgets ...
Comments (4)
Michelle Greer
It's not quite clear why this hire was so controversial from this article. He challenged research, but I'm not sure why I should be so alarmed.
Not saying this guy doesn't deserve the boot. I'd just like to know exactly what he did that was inappropriate.
Tim Hurst via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Another attempt by rik perry to thwart higher, progressive education in Texas by hiring a knuckle-dragger/tea party type. Run him off Longhorns!
Paula Lares via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Tim, if your comment is the product of higher education then yes, we do need reform. I don't see the value of our university system; it's bloated, it's arbitrary and it's Progressive! The best minds our country has produced are by and far not products of the university system. I will read your prejudiced reactionary comment and I will love you as the child of God you are, anyway. Be sweet, Tim =)
john preppas
Paula, your favourite -and only- book in Facebook is the Bible. Not any Bible, though. You post a picture of the Guttenberg Bible, from the Beinecke Library, at ... (can it be? is that possible?) ... Yale University. You know the place, that true bastion of conservative principles, the paragon of non-elitist thinking, and the pinnacle of traditional religious doctrine.