MSU faculty approve measure to initiate Vote of No Confidence in BoT

then move on to the dumpster, until it finally engulfs the whole city

teaching Basketball Coaching 101 and Football Coaching 101.

While I don't disagree with the outcome it's easy to stand up after a couple hundred young women have paved the way. Not one of them heard a single word about campus assaults prior to this, I'm sure.

But how many are up in the next election cycle?

"All Michigan residents need to vote out the idiotic BoT at MSU."

 

Respectfully, isn't that sort of the point?  We have a state constitution; not a completely dusty relic from some agrarian past but the product of a statewide convention in 1963.  The legal chartering and confirmation of the governance structure of the three largest state universities is in that constitution.  Our constitution.  And it provides for one of the more small-d democratic methods of university governance you'll find in the nation.  Direct statewide election of boards, with about as many members as, say, the state supreme court, and with an ex officio position on the boards, for the respective university presidents.

So you'll get your chance, to vote them out or vote them back in.  I am indeed sorry that you can't do that next week, and you'll have to wait until there is a general election at the conclusion of each of their respective terms.  Representative democracies and republics do stuff like that.

Serious question; would you and others here prefer that a board be selected by a governor and, say, confirmed by the state senate?  Would it matter to you, who was the governor and which party held the state senate majority?  Do you think that the faculty members should pick the leadership?  Who then would represent the voters and taxpayers when the faculty went on strike, if the faculty effectively selected the Board(s)?

Do you boys know what the governance of OSU and theo other Ohio state universities looks like?  I'm serious; it's not a them-versus-us thing.  I've looked at it; I see a lot less small-d democracy, a lot more room for vanity/celebrity board members, but with their having less power and the real power being conentrated more in a state board of education that is less accountable to voters than, say, Michigan's Regents.

 

Nobody has touched the Spartan football and/or basketball programs....yet.  Penn State reacted the way it did because Joe Pa got fired in disgrace and the NCAA came along and dropped the hammer on the football program.

Let's see how commendable Spartan Nation is if the NCAA nukes the football/basketball programs and Dantonio/Izzo get shown the door.  I think the reaction may be a little different.

Since the advent of big money and the power of university presidents/athletic departments. The MSU BoT has shown itself to be sufficiently tone deaf to ignore this

This is the appropriate tool to deal with MSU at this point. 

If you are going to reference a Star Wars movie, at least choose a good one.

I would hope not, as that resulted in a sith lord taking over and effectively destroying everything good and decent in the galaxy. Got to hope MSU ends up with a different result. 

And how I found a good woman to marry me, I'll never know....

If the BoT is ultimately out, by resignation or Snyder, then they will get an influx of outsiders from the state D and R parties. And that would be enough to get pure, University-backed introspection and independent investigation. It's also unlikely that Engler would keep the interim appointment. Everything (presumably/hypothetically/given what we know) changes when the BoT leaves. Beginning and ending with their preference for legalistic and avoidant -- rather than victim-focused -- house cleaning strategies.

getting rid of coaches, so we don’t know how they feel about that. What they want is someone from academia to be leading the university, not a politician. At least according to the article referenced by the OP.

We'll see how much of that 87% will demand a serious investigation into Izzo and Dantonio.