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Post by jj on Sept 8, 2009 10:56:13 GMT -5
continueing? Like VU football,time to circle the wagons.
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Post by vufan75 on Oct 5, 2009 14:46:34 GMT -5
Yes, big things are happening on the reorganization front. I think we are in store for big changes in the next few years. Perhaps some of the big changes okinawatypoon was referring to? www.valpo.edu/news/news.php?releaseId=4183 |
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Post by jj on Oct 5, 2009 15:22:30 GMT -5
Good move position wise but his degrees (except KU) are from a third tier school (Pittsburg) and the Midwest Master's 35th. ranked school. So where oh where have the real academics gone? Where oh where can they be?
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Post by vu72 on Oct 5, 2009 15:45:58 GMT -5
jj, he is practicing LAW. I think his degree from Kansas is the most important, don't you think?
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Post by unionguy on Oct 6, 2009 18:33:09 GMT -5
Regarding the naming of the new University Counsel. Where he graduated from in no way effects our level of academics. This individual will not be a professor. He will be part of the administration. This is a new position, which is part of the new reorganization. This will allow us to have our own in house legal counsel, which means we do not have to go out an pay each time we need legal advice. This is a position that exists on many campuses and we are just catching up. This is another good move on the part of the President. This will take the pressure off of other administrators, which then allows them to do what they are suppose to be doing. It gives us a better distribution of job responsibilities and makes more efficient. He is a practicing lawyer and has a great background for the job. I don't think it really matters where he went to undergraduate school. Many great doctors and lawyers didn't go to prestigious undergraduate schools. Employers are looking at what you have done not where you went to school. I wish this gentleman a lot of luck and I hope receives the welcome and respect he deserves.
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Post by 78crusader on Oct 6, 2009 22:00:58 GMT -5
Having practiced law for a relatively short period of time (28 years), I can tell you it makes absolutely no difference where someone may have obtained either their law degree or undergraduate degree. In fact, many if not most of the finest lawyers I have encountered obtained their degree from one of the so-called "lesser" schools.
It makes sense to have in-house counsel and I think this is another example of wise decision-making by our new president and the board of directors. I have noted recently that I cannot question or be in any way critical of any of the decisions they have made recently regarding this university. It seems we are in good hands.
Paul
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