An Alton legislator says it's time to clean house & replace entire SIU BOT--we hear ya... Was really impressed by this reply to the aritcle on the southern site:
"The practices of cronyism and corruption have been a part of the SIU Board of Trustees and the Logan board for decades. Two of the SIU board members removed by Gov. Quinn in February (John Simmons and Ed Hightower), along with current member Marquita Wiley, allowed Roger Tedrick, then board chairman, to sell required liability insurance in at least 33 cases to companies who had won building and service contracts with SIU. Just imagine the outcry if the board chairman at the University of Illinois had sold insurance to companies approved by the board and its chairman? Somehow, in little, backwater southern Illinois this stink doesn't stick. No "thumbs down" from even the "Southern Illinoisan." Wiley even wrote a new, convoluted policy that the board approved so that Tedrick could remain as chairman and simply "recuse" himself from voting on future contracts while he continued to sell insurance to SIU contractors. Slick Wiley!
SIU President Glenn Poshard is behind all of this. The relationships are way too convoluted to recount in this tiny space. Roger Herrin is right: Poshard knows how to create legislative and media attention elsewhere, away from himself. But we've now all seen Poshard's anger, the ego, the manipulations. One of the reasons he is fronting off the governor and the chaotic Illinois economy is so that he can say, by inference, "Hey, don't blame me for the tank that SIUC has fallen into." But we do, Mr. Poshard, we surely do.
So yes, yes, replace every last soul on this miserable board, because even the better ones are now damaged beyond credibility. Start fresh with SIUC and SIUE and independent knowledgeable people. This whole situation, including Quinn and Poshard, is an unbearable, hideous joke that continues to greatly damage what is left of the good standing that SIUC used to have in the region and the state.
Laraine Wright, SIUC retiree"
SIU President Glenn Poshard is behind all of this. The relationships are way too convoluted to recount in this tiny space. Roger Herrin is right: Poshard knows how to create legislative and media attention elsewhere, away from himself. But we've now all seen Poshard's anger, the ego, the manipulations. One of the reasons he is fronting off the governor and the chaotic Illinois economy is so that he can say, by inference, "Hey, don't blame me for the tank that SIUC has fallen into." But we do, Mr. Poshard, we surely do.
So yes, yes, replace every last soul on this miserable board, because even the better ones are now damaged beyond credibility. Start fresh with SIUC and SIUE and independent knowledgeable people. This whole situation, including Quinn and Poshard, is an unbearable, hideous joke that continues to greatly damage what is left of the good standing that SIUC used to have in the region and the state.
Laraine Wright, SIUC retiree"
YES!!!
Absolutely on target for both SIU and JALC--what's in the water that makes so many think they can get away with so much?
ReplyDeleteBecause they can due to people not paying attention in their everyday lives
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