After Rick O'Donnell, What Now for Texas Higher Ed?
One week ago, Rick O’Donnell’s employment at the University of Texas System came to an abrupt end after 50 days marked by tension and confusion in the higher education community — especially at the University of Texas at Austin.
O’Donnell’s position initially raised questions because of its $200,000-per-year salary and its similarities to the job description of UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa — and the fact that he was to report directly to Gene Powell, the chairman of the UT System Board of Regents. Powell failed in his initial attempts to quell the controversy by having O ...
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Once TPPF and Perry remove university professors from doing research in the public policy arena, then TPPF can be the sole source of such "research" (not that TPPF members know how to actually use sources and citations correctly as evidenced by O'Donnell's poorly constructed paper and other papers on the TPPF website). This is the ultimate goal of the effort--remove the power of data and research from everyone except those who will always come up with the "right" conclusions.
Tim Hurst via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The crazy right wing christian nuts will ruin The University. They have an agenda and it is not progressive or good.