- I care.
- My agenda is that of a NJ taxpayer: I want to support a state university system (Kean Univ, Rutgers...) that ensures strong graduate and undergraduate education is affordable for state residents. I want fellow voters and donors to continue to have a system worthy of their support.
- Incompetency in this contract award for $2.25M ($450K/5 years) undermines that.
- When the co-chairs of this process appear to deny timely access of vetting info to the search advisory committee and/or all the voting members, and when the co-chairs further appear to fail to provide time for adequate study and discussion of such background material... the effort of remaining conscientious staff is circumvented and wasted.
- What is far worse - it's not just co-chairs bungling the
selection process, its then trying to sell (even to that same committee!) that the process was just fine.
- Yeah, I canceled my subscription to that that particular newspaper and its sensationalism a long time ago. But I doubt ESPN or any newspaper created Rutgers' internal
email responding to the Co-chairs, which pointed to the heart of this problem:
"Please, let us not at this late date attempt to convince ourselves and the public that there was sufficient time to delve deeply into either candidates's documents ...
"With 13-15 committee members present at the interviews, and with each member needing to be given the opportunity to ask their own questions, and with Julie's interview starting more than 15 minutes late, there was little or no time to ask follow-up questions, or probe deeply ...
"Please let's not present this as any kind of exemplary process. Subsequent events have proven otherwise." [Ronald Garutti - member of the committee and the school's board of trustees]
- Its not the end of the world, or unique to Rutgers. When you improperly make a selection for competative contract award/competitive personel contract award, you simply stop and fix it. Lawyers are
very good at pointing the best way in each particualr circumstance.
-If you do not, you have simply institutionalized incompetence. And everybody knows it.
- Until then, papers, TV, even sports websites will continue to point, to laugh, to resolve it is intollerable, to resolve it must not happen to them . They should.
-ESPN did not torpedo the school's reputation this time. It was an inside job.