re: Can you LSU baws educate me on why everyone hates F King Alexander?

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Are academic rankings have been free falling while he hangs his hat on pointless diversity stats.

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Can someone tell me what qualifications Jay Dardenne has to run a major research university since his name is being floated as F. King’s replacement?

King and JBE killed the Jimbo hire (which ultimately seems to have worked out well for us) because the state was in a budget crisis. The athletic department is self funded and totally separate from the university's funds.

That and his holistic admissions policies pissed a lot of alumni off. He also trashed the state and university every chance he got. Good riddance.

F. King spent money on useless things and administrative overhead, while alienating and destroying the Greek system to which most big donors were members of, and would brag about diversity as the academic rankings slid faster than Oprah on a water slide.

Not to mention how much he loathed athletics, which bring in crazy money to the university. Meanwhile, Alabama had the opposite strategy and their university has never been in better shape. The money is pouring in.

He is everything wrong with academia. The school should be run as a business and if it were a private business, he would've run it into the ground. He just continued to waste tax money on worthless agendas and overhead.

I'm not an LSU grad, but LSU means a lot to Baton Rouge and he couldn't be pushed out fast enough.

Muh liberal

Thats why most do. I didn’t like his involvement in key athletics decisions.

LSU needs to focus more on STEM, getting the smartest kids into the school, keeping those kids in Louisiana post graduation, while embracing things that donors like (Greek system and athletics).

Diversity rankings do not fricking matter. They just don't. You need two things to be a successful university, smarter kids and more money.

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Diversity rankings do not fricking matter. They just don't. You need two things to be a successful university, smarter kids and more money.

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Spot on.

Diversity of THOUGHT is what matters. Skin color, nationality, and gender are useless metrics. Being obsessed with meaningless biological statistics is 1/2 of what’s wrong with academia.

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Most of the state's brightest are not probably going to LSU. If they do, I am sure they left to chase Texas money.

I hear what you are saying and agree with the premise, but brain drain in Louisiana has been a problem for ages

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I know and King made it worse. We need someone who can at least slow it down somehow.

There are lots of clever ideas out there to do this, but he did nothing,

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Are academic rankings have been free falling while he hangs his hat on pointless diversity stats.

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These are factors that can increase diversity of thought, btw

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Scruffy isn't against diversity of thought, but does it really?

More data, at least from external observation, points towards a lack of diversity of thought occurring on college campuses, especially in those locations that are deemed very "diverse".

Now, that isn't to say that every single person on a campus has the same view points, but, with most colleges, the administration to the educational staff and down to the student government, there is a decidedly lack of diversity of thought.

This is seen even in conservative regions/states.

University of Wisconsin is a heavily progressive campus, as is University of Texas in Austin.

Diversity of thought, as the end game of diversity pushes, is not an actual outcome. It never has been.

Can you actually give Scruffy an example of a diverse campus anywhere in the country where "diversity of thought" actually occurs?

Hell, the colleges in California express their diversity as a cornerstone of their existence, but they are the least thought diverse entities in the USA.

Same with the Ivy League schools.

There is a distinct lack of diversity of thought in academia, especially within those academic institutions that laud their diversity.