Former ALEC tactician Robert King among finalists for UW System presidency

[hue]

http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/writers/pat_schneider/former-alec-tactician-robert-king-among-finalists-for-uw-system/article_aec52d38-76e8-11e3-9e3b-001a4bcf887a.html

Is a former politician and American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) captain on education reform a good fit for president of the University of Wisconsin System?

The UW Board of Regents will decide this week as they vote whether to hire Robert L. King, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, one of three finalists to replace outgoing president Kevin Reilly.

King and the other finalists — Raymond Cross, chancellor, University of Wisconsin Colleges and University of Wisconsin-Extension; Peter H. Garland, executive vice chancellor/chief operating officer, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education — are participating in forums Monday to be teleconferenced statewide to UW facilities.

Cross and Garland hold more traditional educational administrative backgrounds, but the selection of King would put a politician at the helm of the UW-System, as the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.

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Uh Oh!

ALEC infiltrating the UW system!!

[Ed Suspicious]

1. A fucking virus they are.

[Gothmog]

2. Scott Walker is a jerk and an idiot

I really hope that Walker is defeated in 2014 because otherwise he may be the GOP nominee in 2016

[catbyte]

3. First that sleepy-eyed dope of a governor and now this guy?!?

[riversedge]

4. Milw Journal did not even mention his ALEC association!!

guess I am not surprised by that!


WHY he is even a finalist is the question!

http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/robert-king-makes-his-pitch-to-be-next-uw-system-president-b99178248z1-238941071.html?page=1#!page=1&pageSize=10&sort=mostthumbsupfirst

[lutefisk]

5. "WHY is he even a finalist...?"

Because the fix is in. Because the selection committee is "amenable" to the governor's wishes. Because the corrupt system kept the finalists names secret until the last minute and limited public participation to the coldest day in years (that was just dumb luck, but it could have been rescheduled).

King- might as well turn Bascom Hall into ALEC headquarters.
Cross- his naive excitement and promotion over online courses and worse will bring down the system in it's own way.
Garland- who knows, but doesn't really seem top tier..

The fools in control of the state are going to destroy what took 150 years to build, and I don't think they can be stopped.

[riversedge]

6. I thought I read a few weeks

ago a blip that Walker supported him but I was not sure I remembered correctly. Thanks for the infor. We are living in a living hell in Wisconsin--not referring to the weather as you know

[a kennedy]

7. Robert King out as UW System president finalist

Thank gawd.

Robert King is out as a candidate for the job of president of the University of Wisconsin System, leaving Ray Cross and Peter Garland as the only known finalists.

Some on campus and in Madison raised questions about King’s background as a conservative politician in New York and officeholder on the American Legislative Exchange Council, which promotes pro-business, free-market legislation. But he earned praise from at least one Kentucky lawmaker who has worked with him.

Spokeswoman Sue Patrick of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education confirmed Wednesday that King was no longer in the running for the top System job.

Since 2009, King has been president of the Kentucky council and will remain in that job.

“He was very honored to have been considered,” Patrick wrote in an email.

It was not known if King was informed he wasn’t getting the job — a Board of Regents committee was expected to settle on a choice Tuesday at a closed meeting — or if he withdrew before the Regents’ meeting.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/university/robert-king-out-as-uw-system-president-finalist/article_b38eae38-89ba-5504-af7d-643c1a9d73a0.html