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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
(6,476 posts)lapfog_1
(29,234 posts)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
(81,656 posts)Nice trend
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)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
(12,265 posts)and supports faculty as much as his bio indicates. It concerns me that a large donor becomes President.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)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
(12,265 posts)time in a classroom. We will have to agree to disagree.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)Not always my favorite, but he was a Rhodes scholar as well and kept OU solvent.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)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
(5,995 posts)His academic background was a part of his campaign resume.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)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
(19,429 posts)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
(17,984 posts)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.