In letter, former University of Missouri System president Tim Wolfe rips colleagues

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Source: KC Star

Since Tim Wolfe stepped down last fall as president of the University of Missouri System after campus protests over his handling of racial issues, he has been silent about the events that led to his resignation.

That changed Wednesday when a letter labeled “confidential” and emailed “to a select few friends” became public. The letter ripped into other university leaders — and lamented that the system’s Board of Curators had yet to offer Wolfe a fair severance package.

The letter, obtained first by the Columbia Daily Tribune and then The Kansas City Star, detailed what Wolfe called “unconscionable behaviors.” He said former Columbia campus chancellor R. Bowen Loftin had made a string of poor decisions and then curators had dragged their feet when Wolfe wanted Loftin removed.

He also was critical of MU athletic department leaders; of Michael Middleton, the university’s diversity official, and the curators’ selection of him as interim president; and of a state senator who Wolfe said improperly pressured him.


Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article56841878.html

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1. This just proves what we knew all along

That this guy is just a corporate hack, and an empty suit who was never qualified to have that job in the first place.

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4. He's a business guy. There's a growing trend in hiring these guys

to run universities.
Kinda goes hand-in-hand with the notion of for profit education.

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2. Hard to believe he thought his email wouldn't be released by someone. Has he not been paying any

attention?

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5. Does it seems to anybody else like a plan to get it leaked it out.

The letter is pretty self-forgiving. The only blame he takes seems to take on is having appointed certain people and trusting in the board.

And then there's the thinly veiled pea to hurry up with the severance package.
Maybe that's what one expects coming from the corporate world.

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3. He's just trying to boost his separtion "package". Arrogant to the last.

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6. If he resigned why should he get a severance package?