Philip Castille: The TT Interview
Philip Castille was aware of the controversy surrounding higher education — and in Victoria, in particular — when he moved his family from Hawaii and became the new president of the University of Houston-Victoria.
State leaders have spent the better part of a year mired in a contentious debate about productivity and accountability regarding the state’s public universities. Add to that a feeling among some influential members of the Victoria community that their local institution was undervalued by the University of Houston System, which prompted unsuccessful efforts to jump to an alternative system.
Castille says his reasons for the move were ...
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David Whitten
Oh, this is rich. Some people wake up in a new world every day. I started working for the former Department of Psychology, TDCJ-D in 1987. UTMB-CMC started molesting the treatment milieu with their profit-driven approach in 1996. It has been downhill since then. Over the years that followed, Pretty Boy Perry & his band of misfits, the GOP, have continued to de-fund needed treatment programs. Even under optimal conditions, the psychiatric-correctional population is very difficult to manage. Recently, the two mutants, UTMB & TDCJ-ID, announced they cannot make an agreement over correctional managed care. This is not a Vegas magician's trick with slight of hand. You cannot make seriously mentally ill patients disappear. The Houston Chronicle reported that a major psychiatric hospital was closing. It sure sounds like fools are at the helm of this sinking ship.