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The big snooze: how college trustees are failing their universities.
"A bloodless civil war." That's what the Atlanta Journal and Constitution calls the controversy at Auburn University in Alabama, where faculty, students, and alumni are struggling with the university's board of trustees. The trustees, their opponents claim, are micromanaging everything from the football program to the school's construction plans. A president has been fired, a head coach forced out, and a $2 million donation lost, all because of the meddling trustees. But what really makes the story of Auburn University stand out against the backdrop of higher education today is that its trustees are paying any attention at all to what is going on at the institution ...
- GOVERNOR RILEY ENCOURAGING APPLICATIONS FOR AUBURN UNIVERSITY TRUSTEE POSITION
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News July 8, 2009 700+ words
...July 7 -- Auburn University issued the...release: The Auburn University Board of Trustees will soon...position is for a trustee representing...address: Auburn University Trustee Selection...at-large trustees and the governor...
- AUBURN UNIVERSITY TRUSTEE JACK MILLER PASSES AWAY
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News July 14, 2009 700+ words
...July 13 -- Auburn University issued the following...Miller Jr., an Auburn University trustee since 2000, passed...Auburn Board of Trustees in June named the...donations be made to Auburn University in care of the John...
- COMMITTEE SELECTS RANDY CAMPBELL TO FILL VACANT AUBURN UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES SEAT
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News August 27, 2009 700+ words
...Aug. 26 -- Auburn University issued the following...selected today by the Auburn University Trustee Selection Committee...the Auburn Board of Trustees currently held by...the Auburn Board of Trustees require Senate confirmation...
- SARAH NEWTON ELECTED PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF AUBURN UNIVERSITY BOARD OF...
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News July 11, 2009 700+ words
...AUBURN, Ala., July 10 -- Auburn University issued the following news...president pro tempore of the Auburn University Board of Trustees for the 2009 -10 academic year. Newton, an Auburn trustee since 2004, was unanimously...
- AUBURN UNIVERSITY TO HONOR FACULTY IN AWARDS CEREMONY OCT. 27
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News October 23, 2009 700+ words
...p.m. at The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center...of 16 faculty members. Auburn University Provost Mary Ellen Mazey...ceremonies. Robert Lowder, Auburn University Board of Trustees member, will give congratulations...
- Auburn University to Build Residence Hall at Montgomery, Ala., Campus.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News September 3, 2001 700+ words
...Nance said. Auburn trustees gave approval Friday...Barron said. The trustees delayed the project...AUM also received trustee approval to proceed...Arts Building. Trustees also commended the 2001 Auburn University Montgomery women...
- Remarks by Vice President Cheney at the Auburn University Commencement.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 13, 2005 700+ words
...President Cheney at the Auburn University Commencement: Beard...President Richardson, trustees, deans, distinguished...forward to visiting Auburn University, and to sharing...outstanding faculty of Auburn University. And I want to join...
- Research Could Pay Bills at Alabama's Auburn University.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 17, 2004 700+ words
...as many years at Auburn University, interim President...urging the board of trustees to think outside...six years. The trustees on June 11 voted...to the board of trustees. The University...of Alabama and Auburn University do not. "Auburn...looking for," said trustee ...
Source: HighBeam Research, The big snooze: how college trustees are failing their universities.