Comments on: Local Yokels: Affirmative Action, Republican-style

By: Saturday morning funnies : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:40:10 +0000

[...] to meet the new president of the University of Colorado, about whom I’ve blogged quite a bit here, here, and here. (My overall take on uncredentialed politicians who presume to lead universities [...]

By: Historiann

Historiann — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:46:14 +0000

Well, you can take unalloyed pleasure at Holtzman’s fabulous flame-out. (And, at moving on down the road to a better job, no?) My apologies for foisting him on you–I was an active player in the faculty group that helped keep him away from CSU. (That said, it wasn’t our call of course, it was our Board of Governors who dinged him.)

By: Ari

Ari — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:41:48 +0000

I was there from 2000-2005. And it’s not wealthy — at all. It just looks the part with all the copper rooftops. The endowment there was — still is, I think — a bit smaller than my checking account. Which is to say: very small.

The Holtzman thing was amazingly demoralizing, having a moronic hack crammed down our throats. *Everyone* knew that the newly created position of “president” was little more than a platform from which he’d run for office.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:54:53 +0000

Ari–were you faculty there? When? I should think DU is somewhat isolated from the political stuff because it’s a wealthy, private institution–no? (I only mentioned it because it’s where Holtzman landed after the CSU faculty shucked him off like a bad…I don’t know what gets shucked.)

By: Ari

Ari — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:41:38 +0000

Honestly, this, more than anything else, was what drove me away from Colorado. I loved my department and didn’t usually mind DU. But the pipe dream that higher ed could only survive by handing the reins over to Republican hacks made my blood boil. Said blood has since cooled considerably. It now simmers.

Anyway, I feel your pain. I really, really do.