U of L President James Ramsey has finally offered apologies for the people hurt by Robert Felner, the former education dean at the school, a man Ramsey, until very recently, ardently defended. If Ramsey had a clue about PR, he would have at least just shut up since there was an investigation going on. If he had been a competent administrator, he would have taken care of the situation before it became public. And if he and Provost Shirley Willihnganz had had a clue about how to recruit deans for their departments, they would have seen the red flags in his background.
The people close to this case refer to Felner as a "psychopath" who routinely engaged in sexual harassment and intimidation. As one person described it to me, "the financial fraud is the least of his offenses."
We're glad Ramsey has apologized, but why in the world did it have to wait until way after everyone else in the known world had figured it out?
Oh, and how many other incompetent deans do we have at U of L because Ramsey and his underlings can't distinguish a competent administrator for a psychopath?
Saturday, September 06, 2008
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All Ramsey cared about was that Felner was bringing in the grant moolah, something all too common in modern American academia. Ramsey should be fired, but he won't be, because his Board is a giant reflective mirror of Ramsey and myriad political cronies.
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