Seliger Files Bill to Curb Regent "Micromanagement"
Senate Higher Education Committee Chairman Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, filed a bill on Monday aimed at improving transparency for university system regents and curbing what he called "micromanagement."
Senate Bill 15 would require all regents to be confirmed by the Senate before voting on matters relating to the budget and personnel of the system or any institution. Before being able to vote on any matters, regents would be required to complete ethics training. The legislation also adds into statute a provision noting that any duty not specifically designated to the system or the regents is reserved for individual institutions.
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Enedelia Obregon via Texas Tribune on Facebook
But vaginal probes isn't micromanagement?
Richard Cherwitz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander! Since faculty have to do ethics training and will now be required by the Regents to submit materials regarding potential conflicts of interest and conflicts of commitment, shouldn’t the same requirements be imposed upon members of university governing boards?
Mark Pulliam via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Isn't Selinger proposing to micro-manage the Board of Regents? Witless pawn of the Powers PR campaign.
Benjamin Davis via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I wouldn't consider taking power away from an unelected, overpaid, patron position as micromanagement. Did you ever know Mr. Frank Erwin?
hans5162@ix.netcom.com hans
This has been overdue. Perry has been pursuing this idiotic agenda to undermine our most successful public institutions. You can be assured, that the agenda they are pursuing has a corporate interest behind it, such as a company providing online learning. Perry has appointed regents with ties to the Texas Public Policy Foundation, which is a shoddy outfit with pay to play research. It is nothing more than a local franchise of the American Legislative Exchange Council. Regent Cranberg is a carpetbagger who supported and later hired Rick O'Donnell. They did enormous damage, even in the short time O'Donnell was there. This bill is long overdue. There has to be oversight into what the Regents are doing and the University of Texas must be protected. We cannot afford what happened to the University of Virginia. Pass this now.