Comments on: Napolitano’s UC nomination a ‘political placement’

By: UCGraduate

UCGraduate — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 01:47:51 +0000

As a UC graduate, this turns my stomach. She is an evil thug who has done nothing but suppress freedom.

By: Rex the Wonderdog!

Rex the Wonderdog! — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 21:20:19 +0000

Former Gov of a state and administrator of a very large chunk of the government?
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LOL….yes, of which a progressive surrender monkey could do bot… with their eyes closed, heck even Teddy could when there is no P&L to measure 😉

By: SKF

SKF — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 18:07:50 +0000

This is someone who is being placed in the position to ram through a political agenda of either someone on the UC Regents, or a political body closely aligned with it. She is NOT qualified, has NO academic experience, has never taught a class, overseen a college or university, in essence, it’s as if she were an outsider coming into perform surgery on a patient that has several life threatening conditions.

I think the best assessment came from here:
“Christopher Newfield, a UC Santa Barbara professor who studies higher education issues, wrote a blog post criticizing UC for its interest in what he called the nation’s “top cop.”

“Meritocracies define ‘being qualified’ for the biggest job in a field as requiring prior experience in other jobs in the field. One is co-pilot before being pilot, a medical intern before being a licensed physician, Provost at Columbia before being Chancellor of UC Berkeley, and so on,” Newfield wrote.

“Ms. Napolitano has no experience with university life or management and no known body of organized thought on the subject. It is not easy to make up for this. Being a political heavyweight is not a qualification for being a university president. Earning President Obama’s trust is not a qualification.”

By: SeeSaw

SeeSaw — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:27:02 +0000

“I admire her for what she’s done,” Romero said of Napolitano. “She was a governor and did oversee the University of Arizona system, but this is the UC system.” –

I thought that the red State of AZ was the one all you rightists emulated! Gloria Romero is a, “DINO”.

By: The Africanized Swarm of Ted Steele System

The Africanized Swarm of Ted Steele System — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 14:00:43 +0000

Former Gov of a state and administrator of a very large chunk of the government? She is well qualified for this post== leadership and management is the gig……that’s exactly what she does…….the clowns out here don’t like her because she’s an Obama person……more tea party-baggy-nonsense…..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz——-they would have LOVED Palin in the job!

By: Ed - San Jose

Ed - San Jose — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 06:27:50 +0000

How do we contact the Regents if we want to express our opposition to this appointment?

By: SKF

SKF — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 05:05:18 +0000

This is clearly a political appointment, and even the UAW released a statement against the appointment –that was done without public input. Almost all of the UC Regents were appointed by Gov. Schwarzenegger, and have many more years to serve. Almost all are from Southern California, reflect a similar age range, and as a group –they are a pretty homogenous one, which is ironic given that the UC system espouses itself as a bastion of “diversity.” In many ways, the group reminds of “the club” that the UC Regents used to be in another era: that of the time prior to the first term of a very much younger Governor Brown . Historically, his relationship with the UC Regents has never been very good. And while he has lambasted them even recently, he also appointed some of the best –and the worst, regents during his first tenure as Governor. However, he won’t have that chance now, as most as serving well into 2020.

I don’t see any smoothing of the road between Brown and Napolitano. I do wish he’d back up his most recent criticism about “fly-in” chancellors, of which Napolitano most definitely can be described.
THURSDAY is the day the UC Regents meets to confirm. I can only hope that there will be massive protests, however, I don’t see both the right and the left and the middle rising together in time to staunch the confirmation. I think it will be –business as usual.
Here are regents: http://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regbios/

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 04:00:11 +0000

You deserve her….fitting new hire for ever changing academic enviro……never recalls anything…..perfect fit!

By: Paula

Paula — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 03:42:08 +0000

So do you suppose she’s going to be the next California Governor? That’s the word I hear.

By: us citizen

us citizen — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 01:08:55 +0000

Why on earth does Ca attract all the nut cases in politics……..feinstein, boxer, pelosi, and now her. Someone must be putting something in the water around here.