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Thursday, July 7, 2016

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http://www.ohio.com/news/local/ua-board-of-trustees-severs-ties-with-executive-responsible-for-increasing-enrollment-failed-polytechnic-rebranding-1.695350

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

'I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.' – Woody Allen

Anonymous said...


Classic men's clothier Ben Silver in Charleston, S.C. is looking for aging dandies who can be model bow ties, buckle shoes and gangster suits.

Anybody got Burns' cell phone number

Anonymous said...


T-shirt seen along Summit St. the other day

Paris.

London.

ProMedicaville

Anonymous said...


It appears the UA Board of Trustees is just as effective as humble priest St. Patrick in driving a UT snake out of its midst.

Anonymous said...

I guess Akron wasn't a very good career move.

Anonymous said...


Jacobs was a one-trick pony: Transformative. He was clueless. He embraced change, any change, for the sake of change. I don't think he understood the difference between transformative and destructive. Nor did he give a damn.

Scarborough was just evil. He was a right-wing thug hell-bent on privatizing public higher education, or destroying that which he couldn't privatize.

And this bring us to Larry Burns. Mr. Smoke and Mirrors. He always struck me as a cross between a used car salesman and a Joseph Goebbles wannabe.

It amazes me that as I write all three men have been fired and yet are collecting roughly (nearly?) a million dollars a year combined.

Mary said...

To 6:40, it is obscene that these three are being "rewarded" for what they did to the University. They destroyed so much while they were at the University. They should have been forced to do community service or donate some of their million dollars to charity.

Anonymous said...

Or better yet, return some of the their million dollars to the university for scholarships or for the hiring of new full-time faculty. Most hard working faculty members don't make six figure salaries their whole professional lives yet these three end up with hundreds of thousands of dollars for trying to destroy the university.

Anonymous said...

And where was the UT faculty when the true vileness of these folks was recognized? Why did it take so long? What caused the Trustees to believe the snake oil stories so early and so long? I ask so that if it happens again (remember Kapoor?) maybe it will be a shorter time in purgatory.

Anonymous said...


Accuracy has never been a strong element of this blog.

It's Joseph Goebbels.

Anonymous said...


Al Baker is a great addition to the UT Board of Trustees.

As a former member of the MCO Board of Trustees, he possesses the institutional knowledge of Health Science Campus, something that is in very short supply in the Gaber administration and on the UT Board and nonexistent among Main Campus faculty.

He knows, understands and appreciates the life-sustaining work of the UT Medical Center and the historic role it has played in providing care to people with few or no resources, for its role as a health safety net for the community at large, for the educational role it has played as a 200+ bed "classroom" for thousands of medical, nursing and other health-professions students, and for the numerous contributions it has made to the science of saving lives.

I hope he also displays toughness in making sure trustees don't cave to every demand from ProMedica concerning UT's clinical operation.
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Anonymous said...


Here’s hoping that at his first one-on-one meeting with President Gaber new trustee Al Baker asks her one simple question: What evidence exists that ProMedica Toledo Hospital can create long term an environment of curiosity, learning, cutting-edge medicine and people asking difficult questions that characterize the nation’s teaching hospitals?

There’s a good reason for that question. Mr. Baker can easily provide an historical tutorial on the untrustworthiness ProMedica has demonstrated over the years in its dealings with previous MCO and UT administrations and that for years, the biggest area rivalry was not the annual UT-Bowling Green football game, but the turf wars between ProMedica, MCO and Mercy Health Partners. He lived through it as an MCO trustee and has witnessed how ProMedica has used medical education as a pawn in its quest to dominate Toledo’s health-care market.

He brings an historical perspective and I hope a willingness to tap the brakes and critically judge ProMedica's true commitment long-term to blending academic and clinical missions for ProMedica Toledo Hospital and to become a true teaching hospital for UT health-professions students.

Meanwhile, the future of UT Medical Center’s signature cardiology, cancer, stroke and neurology and other patient-care programs,as well as its teaching role, is left twisting in the wind.

Such is the state of affairs in ProMedicaville, formerly Toledo.


Anonymous said...

One hopes that now the College of Arts and Letters is emergent, we can be slowly rid of the remnants of the jumped-up deans (and their numerous buddies) from the Jacobs/Scarborough era. Maybe deanships and associate deanships will be based on merit. What a novel idea! For a while, though, we will have to deal with the same-old-same-old: buddies, cronies, career bureaucrats disguised as professors, favoritism, budget games and general vindictiveness. The future is bright, it is the changeover that is the problem. New broom! Sweep clean.

Anonymous said...

There is a whole university that will be affected for years to come by this ProMedica Deal. Notice that the person who penned the deal is no longer here. I wonder why.

Anonymous said...


No, that's not true.

The latest document outlining the UT-ProMedica clinical education affiliation agreement that calls for a boatload of cash to UT over 50 years in return to making ProMedica Toledo Hospital UT's primary "teaching hospital" and throwing UT Medical Center under the bus was signed by the current board, President Gaber and Dr. Chris Cooper, dean of the College of Medicine and Life Sciences.

All are still here.

Anonymous said...

He's following the urge to conquer Poland?

Anonymous said...

Where is Dave Morlock?

Anonymous said...

"Maybe deanships and associate deanships will be based on merit". Since when have associate deans ever been based on any form of merit (and what form of merit would an associate dean need to have?). Associate Deans are appointed by Deans and in my limited experience in dealing with them (like most regular faculty who also have little direct involvement with associate deans) the majority are hard working and competent at their jobs, often under difficult leadership by their bosses - Deans and Provost. I can assure you that Associate Deans have a pretty terrible job, all the work and little of the reward, reports, meetings, etc,,, so sure they make more money, but not as much as many senior faculty. And believe me the best teachers and scholars do not make the best administrators (as Assc Deans or even Deans) so if that is what you mean by merit you are misguided but what those jobs actually require: budget experience, people management, crisis response, leadership, vision, time management, 27/7/365 focus and availability - skills and experience most faculty simply do not have regardless of student teaching evaluations, grants and publication record. And I am not nor ever have or will be an Associate Dean or Dean, but I know many and plenty of good ones, and know a bad Dean when I see one.

Anonymous said...

Dave Morlock took his money and headed to the green grass of venture capital land. He may have involved with the negotiated ProMedia agreement, but to suggest he left or was forced out because he penned the deal (inferring it was a bad deal for UT?), is simply wrong. The Board, President and Dean of Medicine signed because they saw the value for UTMC and our med students.