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...Gore struck out, but dozens of Harvard outsiders were still in consideration. Condoleezza Rice, the former Stanford provost who was then helping George W. Bush to secure his presidency; Richard D. Klausner, then the director of the National Cancer Institute; and Nobel laureate Harold E. Varmus, CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan all made...
...think of any recent campus news stories that had garnered such extensive national media attention. But Rob Tomsho of the Wall Street Journal noted that comparably acrimonious spats between college presidents and faculty members had erupted recently at Baylor University—where President Robert B. Sloan Jr. resigned last month after two faculty votes of “no confidence”—and University of Southern Mississippi, where President Shelby Thames’ effort to fire two tenured professors touched off protests last spring...
...students need a better role model than votes of confidence and no confidence,” Sloan added. “Universities should not be run like a banana republic...
...interview yesterday, however, Sloan minimized the importance of faculty senates and confidence votes...
...confidence votes are held all the time, and it’s typically the effort on the part of a very small number of activists to pursue an agenda of disruption,” Sloan said...