Rutgers needs a Rutgers Man as President.

[graystork]

Yeah, at least they had a spine.

This is the point. Really any vertebrate would do better.

 

[Upstream]

It was Bloustein that got rid of the undergraduate colleges with the faculty reorganization. (Sorry kids, but what Douglass, Rutgers and Livingston were from 1981 to 2006 or whatever were NOT colleges; they had no faculties. They were merely residential units that added unneeded bureaucracy to the university because the political will to go all the way didn't exist back then.) It was Bloustein that got Rutgers into the AAU, but he needed what at the time seemed like massive tuition hikes (10%, 15%, 10%, or the other way around, I forget, in consecutive years; of course, in real dollars they weren't that high because tuition was much, much lower back then). And it was Bloustein who, when the NCAA decided to split Division I, to lead Rutgers to play with the big boys. Of course, I don't think we had an adequate plan or adequate money to do that right -- how long did we have a small-time stadium to go with our big-time plans? -- but he's the one that made sure we went "bigger time." So while Ed's legacy is pretty darn solid, he didn't do everything exactly the way it should have been done in retrospect, and he was not popular during his tenure. Not at all. As noted, he came from Bennington, which is about as far from Rutgers is today as you can imagine. Not quite as far in the early 1970s.
And McCormick Jr., who finished the reorganization that Ed started, also accomplished what he wanted but kind of embarrassed us along the way. Kind of a lot. It was bad..

I have to think that Bloustein went with the half-assed reorganization because of the pressure from parochial interests. Combining the faculty was necessary to give Rutgers the gravitas to do serious research and join the AAU. Prior to that, for example, Rutgers had 4 small Chemistry departments that competed against each other, instead of a single world-class Cemistry department.

But Rutgers combined the faculty without combining the colleges, giving students the worst combination of small colleges and a big university, complete with conflicting policies and bureaucratic processes.

Anyone looking at this objectively would have seen the structure made no sense. The only possible explanation for creating that asinine structure is to please the parochial interests that wanted separate Rutgers, Douglass, Cook, and Livingston colleges. When McCormick finally eliminated that structure, he faced a lot of opposition from parochial interests.

Even today, Rutgers is being challenged by the parochial interests at the AADC, an organization that serves no purpose other than to perpetuate itself.

 

[NotInRHouse]

Why would he comment during an investigation? Do people on this board live in the real world? What happens if an email comes out that Flood asked for a grade to be changed?

And Pernetti was thrown under any bus, he was justifiably canned and the best thing you can say about him was he hired Flood. Otherwise he was an unmitigated disaster, he had no clue how to handle the media nor hiring which were his two main jobs.