Tuskegee University presidential search 2 months remain. Last min. hire?

[TUTiger]

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Nova,
Since you can't sleep at night and has lost all sense of focus, contact the Search Committee and ask them the questions that you want to know.   

[NovaSkegee]

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Nova,
Since you can't sleep at night and has lost all sense of focus, contact the Search Committee and ask them the questions that you want to know.   

Been there.

This is General Discussion Forum of Onnidan. It's great to share with the others in the HBCU world. If you don't like it. ...please stay out of this topic. That will allow you to deal with your issues.

[TUTiger]

Keep posting and wasting your time Nova!  BTW, if anyone on Onnidan with issues it is certainly you!  MENTAL ISSUES--that is!

[NovaSkegee]

Keep posting and wasting your time Nova!  

5,162 have viewed this topic. One of the most viewed topics on Onnidan. That's way more than the 2,900 students currently enrolled at Tuskegee. This is the 4th most viewed topic on Onnidan.

Thanks, I will.

[Wildcat1025]

Nova,

We can all tell too when you haven't taken your medicine for your psychosis!

Why, because I want our alumni to be updated and have posted the question? We can tell a lot about you for you not wanting to be updated or informed. 

Question, are you a TU alumn?

[NovaSkegee]

Question, are you a TU alumn?

Yes, and a financially active alumnus too.

[ToUgh1881]

NOva,

A man's gift makes room for him..... "Proverbs"

as it relates to the present regime or the one to come, my work
SPEAKS for itself!

It's amazing how you think you are in the know, funny considering
you are only identified by your ridiculous post(s).
Elevate your thinking,zeal without knowledge is not good

[NovaSkegee]

ToUgh1881 you are the Ticket Sales Manager for Tuskegee University, correct? So, your boss is who? Yeah, thought so.  

I wouldn't expect you to want the alumni to be informed of where we stand with 3 months remaining for Dr. Payton as president of the university.

Again, take a look at Tuskegee University's board of trustees and compare it to the other universities and notice the lack of alumni members and leadership on the Tuskegee board. Having a member sit on the board since 1965 and chair the board since 1982 is a problem. Has this person ever sat on the board of his alma mater, the University of Washington?

http://onnidan1.com/forum/index.php/topic,37302.0.html

[Shelt from Skegee]

Everyone why are you still going on and on and on with this guy.  He comes back periodically with the same ol' schitt.  If he would come back with something original, or ever offer a solution, or do more than cut and paste stuff he finds on the internet, people would take him more seriously, as it is I plan on ignoring him on the rest of these I hate Payton, I hate Brimmer, I don't like our BOT posts from now on.  I recommend everyone else do the same.

[NovaSkegee]

Everyone why are you still going on and on and on with this guy.  He comes back periodically with the same ol' schitt.  If he would come back with something original, or ever offer a solution, or do more than cut and paste stuff he finds on the internet, people would take him more seriously, as it is I plan on ignoring him on the rest of these I hate Payton, I hate Brimmer, I don't like our BOT posts from now on.  I recommend everyone else do the same.

So you don't care what the status is of the presidential search with only 3 months remaining for the current president and you don't care that Tuskegee is one of the few universities in the United States where its alumni are not the majority of the board and/or are not holders of key positions on its board of trustees?

Those of you who don't care are the reason Tuskegee has had the accreditation issues its recently had and are the reason why Tuskegee has a smaller enrollment today than it did in 1972 or in the year when Dr. Payton became president.

I'm not worried about Dr. Payton. He's leaving in 3 months. But, knowing about the status of the new hire is important.

The board of trustees is another issue. That is a problem and Tuskegee's alumni are locked out of it. It's clear when you look at the boards at the other HBCUs and at the predominantly white universities, who are dominated by alumni. Their chairs or vice-chairs are always alumni.

[Valley Girl]

I understand that I don't have a dog in this fight, and I promise I will try my best to make sure this is my last post on this thread.

Nova I understand what your issues are...you have stated them quite well. So now what do you suggest be done to correct the circumstances? Should a group of concerned alumni file a formal complaint? Is there a group? Have you made an attempt to form such a group?  If you have done this and still get no satisfaction, what then?

You have laid the problem out there pretty well...I am just curious as to what you think the solution is and how you get there...

[tusmse]

NOVA has serious issues.  He is beyond help.

[NovaSkegee]

NOVA has serious issues.  He is beyond help.

And Tuskegee University looks foolish to many in the world of higher education.

Those in academia see the make up of Tuskegee's Board of Trustees and know and see that Tuskegee's alumni lack power and control over their own alma mater.

Those in academia also have seen Tuskegee's process to select its next president and with this said many really qualified people may not have applied due to these conditions.

Tuskegee University, as great as it is, is not on an isolated island in the world of higher education. As much as we alumni may hope that academia view our alma mater the way we do, this is just not in fact the case.

There is no secret, to those in academia, in who controls Tuskegee University (make up of the board), the conditions that surround the lack of respect the faculty senate has with the administration and Tuskegee University's presidential search process. Many in academia also see that many of the alumni don't even care and/or support these types of conditions.

[NovaSkegee]

A timeline has been established, and the search firm will recommend five highly qualified candidates to be president of Tuskegee University no later than the end of February 2010.

No names of potential candidates will be released until the final process has been completed, according to Brimmer.

What is the final process?

Dr. Andrew F. Brimmer, chairman of the Presidential Search Committee for Tuskegee University, and chairman of its Board of Trustees since 1982.

[NovaSkegee]

Take a look how at even the public university that is located next to Tuskegee, Auburn has all of its board of trustees members are alumni.

http://www.auburn.edu/administration/trustees/

So, at the other private HBCUs such as Howard, Hampton and Morehouse a large portion of their board of trustees members are their own alumni and key positions on their boards are held by alumni.

Then at the public HBCUs like Florida A&M, North Carolina A&T and others their boards are dominated by alumni.

And at the private and public predominantly white universities such as Harvard, Yale, Duke, Stanford to University of Michigan, University of North Carolina to Auburn their boards of trustees members are almost 100% alumni only. Including the University of Washington, where Tuskegee University's chairman of the board is a graduate of.

Is something not wrong with this picture at Tuskegee University?