If it is Dr. Lane, then it falls right in line with the corruption in previous administrations. Fingers crossed he was truly innocent when he was forced to resign from Texas Southern...
Hearing that Dr Austin Lane will be the new Chancellor. 🤐
SIU can ill afford to screw this up. I hope like heck they found someone that has progressive ideas for increasing enrollment and continue the work that's been done to make majors at SIU more relevant to today's market.
More details on the scandal. He was not directly involved - got caught in the backlash.
He began the job in 2016 and stepped down this February following a clash with the board concerning an admissions scandal involving the law school and an assistant dean. Lane reached a settlement agreement with the board that found no wrongdoing and paid him $879,000, an amount that included a lump sum and payout of various benefits, according to the Houston Chronicle.
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According to the Houston Chronicle, Texas Southern’s board placed Lane on leave in January, and voted 6-1 the following month to begin the process of terminating him. Members of the board accused him of “fraudulent and dishonest activities” in the law school’s admissions process, the Houston Chronicle reported. Lane has consistently denied any wrongdoing, and challenged the termination. Later, he reached a settlement agreement with the university.
A March 11 report in the Houston Chronicle outlined a 17-page report on the admissions scandal by Texas Southern’s chief internal auditor. The report revealed an alleged pay-to-play scheme in which four law school applicants paid the assistant dean of admissions more than $100,000 in bribes in return for admission and scholarships, among other misdeeds.
This happened during Lane’s tenure, and the report faults him for failing to notify the auditor and board once it came to his attention. Lane told The Southern Illinoisan that he disputes the findings, and said the audit report contained fabricated details of the events that led to him stepping down. The assistant law school dean accused in the audit report of accepting bribes was terminated by the dean of the law school in September 2019, he said.
Lane said the associate dean was terminated because he suggested in an email to an applicant that he not disclose something from his past that could have negatively affected his acceptance. The following month, the dean discovered that the former employee had also admitted two students with LSAT scores that made them ineligible. Lane said he has never seen any evidence that suggests the associate dean had accepted bribes in exchange for admission and scholarships. He said that’s why he did not inform the board of a pay-to-play scandal — he has never received any information indicating one existed.
Well if that is the case, I love what he had to say in the rest of the article. Wants growing enrollment to be data driven, wants SIU to be a first choice university among high school graduates in Illinois, wants to use Athletics to grow the university’s image, wants SIU to become a Tier 1 research university, and wants to produce graduates that contribute to the local, regional, and national economy.
Hopefully none of this is true.
It should only take a few months to figure out if the new hire is cast from the same mold as the others or if they'll be a winner.
This sounds good
“We will be the leading producer of highly qualified graduates in various disciplines that help fuel the local, the regional, the state and the national economy,”
This seems a little deluded and maybe counter productive as these higher tiers probably entail "strings" to prevent us from dropping deadbeat program.
he would like to see the university’s flagship Carbondale campus improve its standing from a Tier 2 “high research activity” to a Tier 1 “very high research activity” university
It'll be interesting to see if the needed immediate actions will be taken to get our tuition in line with what we offer in comparison to other state Us and neighboring states stealing our students.
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― Ayn Rand
Well if that is the case, I love what he had to say in the rest of the article. Wants growing enrollment to be data driven, wants SIU to be a first choice university among high school graduates in Illinois, wants to use Athletics to grow the university’s image, wants SIU to become a Tier 1 research university, and wants to produce graduates that contribute to the local, regional, and national economy.
None of those things will blow up tuition.
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― Ayn Rand
I hope he has vision beyond raising tuition another 28%.
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― Ayn Rand
Here’s some good audio from the new Chancellor
https://news.wsiu.org/post/new-siuc-chancellor-austin-lane-discusses-goals-challenges#stream/0
