So now that it is out in the open (finally after all these
years) and there can be no doubt in anyone’s mind that Wayne Watson and Emil
Jones control the CSU Board of Trustees (dangling southside votes to get the
gutless Quinn to off the three board members, Rozier, Scott, and Morrison-Butler,
who dared to think that a board actually determined the leadership of the
university) how do Watson and Jones now propose to run the university?
For those of you who haven’t considered the implication of
the gutless Governor’s actions, there are a few pesky state laws that require
board actions for tenure/promotion decisions and for certain university
contracts. CSU no longer has a full board membership. There is no chair named, more
importantly there is not even a quorum on the board in which to conduct
business. What we have are three board members and one student member. There is
no quorum for voting on tenure/promotion matters because the student cannot vote
on faculty. The gutless Governor gutted our board. Have I mentioned that no
business can be conducted legally right now. To compound matters, the gutless
Governor has been having trouble getting his membership picks approved by the
Illinois Senate—no doubt CSU’s fixer Jones can work that out, but so far he has
not.
And this doesn’t even get to another question—who wants to
serve on a board of trustees that has no power? If the Board objects to
President Watson’s actions all he has to do is call in Daddy Jones again to set
that board straight, no?
Maybe the CSU Act should be changed—abolish CSU’s board of
trustees-- and we can just move on from farce to pure fascism. Last month we
were shown by our gutless Governor, by the ruthless political maneuvers of
Watson and Jones and their loyal soldiers, that there will be no challenge to their
authority. HLC shared governance and integrity issues be damned. This is Chicago
I’m waiting to see what they do now that they’ve caught the
car.
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