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Chip StewartStatement by Dr. Hart Blanton, the chair of the department of communication & journalism at Texas A&M, acknowledging that the president (who resigned today) was not telling the truth about her asserted lack of involvement.
Also I kinda buried the lead, it also says Dr. McElroy hiring interference was based on her race. And that someone over his head changed her multiyear offer without his knowledge but used his signature.
Sarah Fackrell
Peggy Heinkel-WolfeIn Texas, an inverse correlation seems to exist between the higher someone rises in administrative and the degree of courage they display on the job. (I worked in higher ed admin for a long time, sooooo much CYA)
NONE of what happened at A&M surprises me.
#txlege prolly knows they can poke at the spine of higher education leaders and find a lot of softness.
That is, until they reach the faculty senate.
@phwolfe940 the truth right there. Cowardice prevails
Steve Stockdale@MediaLawProf In one of the stories you boosted (did I say that right?) a Mark A. Welsh III was mentioned somewhere in the TAMU leadership structure. He was formerly the Air Force Chief of Staff, and before that one of my classmates at the Academy.
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While I'm dropping names, two other grads in my class were Mike Gould, former Academy Superintendent and one of the charter members of the original NCAA BCS committee, and Randy Spetman, who after he retired from the AF as the Academy A.D. took the same role at Florida State ... he was there when B. Bowden retired. And I played on the frosh team with a guy who xfer'd to BYU after that season - Brian Billick. Also in my math class.
While I'm dropping names, two other grads in my class were Mike Gould, former Academy Superintendent and one of the charter members of the original NCAA BCS committee, and Randy Spetman, who after he retired from the AF as the Academy A.D. took the same role at Florida State ... he was there when B. Bowden retired. And I played on the frosh team with a guy who xfer'd to BYU after that season - Brian Billick. Also in my math class.
Dr Andrew A. Adams #FBPE 🔶@MediaLawProf "buried the lede" not "buried the lead"
@a_cubed I am a doctor of journalism and I reject “lede” on principle because it’s made up and silly
@MediaLawProf OK, I didn't realise it was so recent a usage.
@a_cubed no worries, I was just being snarky - it’s common in journalism, I just have always thought it was a bit pretentious so I don’t use “lede”
Chris Espinosa@MediaLawProf wow. Leaving aside the ethics and academic freedom and nondiscrimination in hiring (which shouldn’t be ignored), materially altering something as binding as an offer letter after it’s been signed, then sending the altered version without the signatory’s approval, is probably at least forgery if not wire fraud. A hasty resignation won’t make that go away.