New University of Oklahoma President an oil executive with no academic experience.

[redstatebluegirl]

Today James Galloghly was named as the 14th President of the University of Oklahoma. His background, imagine this, is in the oil industry. While I must be careful in my comments about this person, I am not surprised he sat on the board of Continental. I wonder how long it will take to put pressure on the research on campus that are looking into global warming.

I need a drink.

[Stallion]

1. Sooners Hope that He Will Be a President Their Football Team Can Be proud of

[lapfog_1]

2. everything in OK is oil

speaking as someone who married into Big Oil in OK (my father-in-law was an executive with a national oil company based in OK).

However, this news is disappointing.

[dalton99a]

3. New U.S. President a real-estate developer with no government experience.

Nice trend

[FarCenter]

4. from his bio

He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colo., in 1974 and a J.D. degree from the OU College of Law in 1977. Gallogly also completed the Advanced Executive Program at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., in 1998.

Additionally, he received honorary degrees from OU and the University of Colorado (CU) in 2012. In 2016, he was honored with the Order of the Owl Award recognizing OU Law graduates who demonstrate leadership and service through outstanding accomplishments in their legal careers. Gallogly is also a member of the Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado bar associations.

Jim is extremely passionate about OU, STEM education, as well as achieving excellence in the liberal arts. The Gallogly Family Foundation has been a major benefactor for which the OU Gallogly College of Engineering and Gallogly Hall are named. The Foundation chose the OU College of Law as the pilot school for its selective Public Interest Fellowship Program, which supports graduates pursuing public interest work.

Gallogly is also a member of the OU Gallogly College of Engineering Board of Visitors and the CU Engineering Advisory Council and the University Cancer Foundation Board of Visitors at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. He serves as a trustee to CU and is a director of the CU Foundation.

https://www.ou.edu/content/web/news_events/articles/news_2018/biography.html

The Provost is the chief academic officer.

[redstatebluegirl]

5. He has no academic administration in his background. I hope he loves STEM

and supports faculty as much as his bio indicates. It concerns me that a large donor becomes President.

[FarCenter]

6. I don't think that his predecessor, Boren, did either.

Senior Vice President and Provost Kyle Harper is the Chief Academic Officer of the Norman campus and is responsible for fulfilling the academic mission of The University. Reporting to the President, the Senior Vice President and Provost provides academic and administrative leadership for instruction, research and creative activity, and public service.

http://www.ou.edu/content/provost.html

The President's main function is to negotiate budgets with the legislature, gather charitable contributions, oversee general expenditures, and run non-academic departments. It's largely an outward facing job.

The Provost recruits and manages the faculty and academic affairs.

[redstatebluegirl]

7. I think the President of an academic institution should have spent some

time in a classroom. We will have to agree to disagree.

[bigbrother05]

10. Boren was a professor at OBU before becoming Governor, then Senator

Not always my favorite, but he was a Rhodes scholar as well and kept OU solvent.

[FarCenter]

11. His bio at ok.edu and wiki didn't mention that, but I found this

While in the House, Boren also served as a professor at Oklahoma Baptist University.

http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=31000&ATCLID=209613337

About 2000 students and just over 100 academic staff at OBU. Wonder what he taught there?

[bigbrother05]

12. Grew up in OK and remember when he ran for Gov

His academic background was a part of his campaign resume.

[ProudLib72]

8. I hate STEM, loathe it actually

In my experience gains in STEM come at a steep cost to liberal arts. So we end up with some people who can perform math with some competence but can't read or write worth a damn.

[FarCenter]

9. We should probably remove all STEM from Universities and Colleges, keep only Liberal Arts and sports

There should be a separate set of institutions with names like State Institute of Technology or State Polytechnic that house all the STEM research and teaching.

It would reduce the cost of STEM research, since the percentage of "administrative overhead" that goes to support institutions generally would go down.

[ProudLib72]

13. Get rid of sports and administration, too

When the chair of you department at your liberal arts college tells you "It's liberal arts in name only", you know something is up. It's the administration who wants to run colleges and universities on the business model. That's why they would rather keep sports and STEM while sacrificing half of the History classes and 1/3 of the English classes. It's also why they have huge turnover in faculty who don't want to deal with their shit.