Michael Gartner Is A Cranky Guy In A Bow Tie

From the Des Moines Register:

Regents President Michael Gartner issued the following statement to The Register today, in response to the newspaper’s editorial published Tuesday calling for an end to the secrecy in the search.

These are Gartner’s first public remarks about the search since the board halted the search process on Friday.

Here's my favorite part:

Third, you say we have “shrouded the process in secrecy.” It’s true the process was confidential, but five of the seven candidates brought in for interviews told us they would drop out if their names became public, and virtually all of the original pool of 150 or so also demanded confidentiality -- a fact the Search Committee was aware of from the beginning. Right or wrong, that seems to be the way the marketplace works at large institutions these days. David Skorton’s name was not made public at Cornell (a semi-public institution) nor Mary Sue Coleman’s at Michigan (a public institution). Indeed, after being appointed, Coleman told the Ann Arbor News she would not have been a candidate if the search had been open.

No wonder. These overpaid ass clowns are too busy jockeying around the country, switching jobs every few years, and demanding higher and higher amounts of compensation. It's annoying. Why can't they just take the frickin job and do it?

What would the marketplace be like if the names of the finalists were released? We'd probably have less job hopping by greed-seeking and status-seeking climbers like Zero Freedman, Hunter Rawlings IIIIIII, Mary Sue Michigan, and David "Not That Cornell" Skorton.


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