Hands off the sports program, Dr. Gee
Gordon Gee, a former President of Ohio State (1990-1997), will be the new OSU President. At Vanderbilt he shaped up the sports program. I see he's not happy with the graduation rate of the OSU football players. He thinks the system is "broken." If college is supposed to prepare a young person for the real world, and some want to be professional sports players, why do we care if they graduate? Bill Gates didn't graduate, and he's done OK, and he did even play football! If the young, large necked guys don't graduate from OSU, and don't play NFL, but later decide to try a junior college or technical school because they see the light, what's so terrible. Would they have done better if they never had attended the largest university in the country? The OSU football program actually makes money, and it funds the programs like women's basketball and volleyball that run in the red. People don't fill that stadium to see scholars smash mouthing each other.Graduation rates are way over rated, as are degrees. Librarians have degrees; lots of them. Knowledge is supposed to be power. Ha. We can't even get a librarian appointed as Librarian of Congress.
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I read about this guy to be heading back to Ohio State.
He just seemed to be like every other bureaucrat, he wants better numbers, ie graduation rate among sports players.
Same song and dance at every business in America. Once you're a rung or two above bottom on the corporate ladder, you have to justify your existence and success to those above you, and that only means, better numbers. It's all they understand, whether the numbers are grounded in reality doesn't matter.
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