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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If he had any sense of decency he’d offer to let them do a proper search.

Which would make him a more viable candidate.

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This is insane. The council determined the hiring approach, not Beardsley. He doesn't get to decide that they have to do another layer of vetting. [/quote]

So you acknowledge the hiring approach was politically motivated and abnormal?[/quote]

No, of course not. It's just nuts that you're trying to hold him accountable for a process that he didn't determine. [/quote]

Perhaps if he had better educational credentials, he would be able to recognize a flawed process. [/quote]

You people are ridiculous. He was wildly successful both professionally and as the dean of Darden. There was no outrage then or calls that he wasn't qualified. He has an engineering degree and an MBA from MIT. You want some academic with with no practical operational or fundraising skills? That is what the job calls for - to be a leader, not an academic.  [/quote]

You act like these are either-or things, like you can be a clueless academic or a leader. Actually you can be both, and you see both in the presidency of every top 25 school/SLAC (and almost all of the other t50-75 schools)…just not UVa. Which is embarrassing for UVa, to have a president with a diploma mill, pay to play degree. Yes, it is one,even if it’s from Penn. [/quote]

Beardsley has an MBA from MIT.  Ryan had a JD from UVA.  [/quote]

J[b]ust a jd is fine for a top uni president who’s a legal scholar. There are no top uni presidents with just an mba. Beardsley has an mba + two yr pay to play Ed.D., which isn’t much better. [/quote][/b]

All false.  if you had bothered with wikipedia you would know that Beardsley has a

1) BS from Tufts in electrical engineering
2) a MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management
3) a Doctorate from Universityof Pennsylvania in higher education management (which is what this job is) 
4) and will receive a M.Phil from Oxford this year for his work in A.I.[/quote]

But he doesn't have a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so he could never run a multi-million dollar, complex enterprise like a university and related health system.  [/quote]

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