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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Not Everything Is Negative!

So loyal readers, I have been accused by the Crony State University regime of only communicating negativity about the university through this humble electronic forum. This, of course isn’t true, but when the truth is unflattering, attack the truth teller.
I do have good news out of the bad news of the passing of Dr. Maya Angelou. The “poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist” made her transition yesterday. Dr. Kelly Ellis, of the CSU English Department, will be appearing on Richard Steele’s Barbershop Show on WBEZ, 91.5 FM, a National Public Radio station on Sunday, June 1st, at 3PM to discuss the life and work of an American literary icon.

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VoicedMay 30, 2014, 9:55:00 AM
As Maya would say, the Crony State regime's accusations only reveals their "own vast senses of personal inferiority". When the regime emporer Is standing in front of us "stripped to the buff, nothing should prevent [us] from saying that since he has no clothes on, he is not fit for public congress." Wouldn't Take Nothing for my Journey Now, p.44.

Yours is the character we admire and want to emulate.

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Thanks to Haki Madhabuti

"1. He/she must be a scholar of national note, with significant peer review publications and books in his or her field. There must be no doubt as to his/her standing in the community of scholars. This would also include a history of the candidate’s participation in the appropriate professional organizations.

2. He/she must have served with distinction as the administrative head of a major unit within an institution of higher learning or at the important position of Provost and/or Dean. Of course, prior service at the presidential level is preferred.

3. He/she must have a documented history of raising significant monies from the private and public sectors. At most major and research one universities it is not unusual to expect the president to come with a plan to raise in excess of half a billion dollars or more in the first few years.

4. The prospective president must have a consensus buy-in from the faculty, students, administration and staff, therefore, arriving with a unity mandate to lead by joining a University community that has bought into his or her vision for the future."

From an open letter to the CSU Community, 2009.