By: TommyS

TommyS
Tue, 01 Jul 2014 18:44:35 +0000

Let’s hope that reporters, still learning, missed some of the substance of Dr. Drake’s remarks, because what’s reported doesn’t look so promising.

He’s going to “prioritize excellence, opportunities, and the university’s relationship with the community.” If the last item is a reference to reining in the community’s commission of crime against university students, he might be onto something, but one doubts that what he’s referring to.

How about this: “Alutto told The Lantern that Drake will offer an emphasis that OSU has perhaps not seen before with past presidents, given his medical science background and passion for students, faculty and staff.” That has to be stupidest, least supported statement in the article. How is his medical science background going to help? How can it be said that he has more “passion for students” etc, than any of his predecessors.

Then this: he plans to work “one-on-one” with students to hear make their voices heard during university decision-making. That is not how you lead a university of almost 60,000 students. (That would be somewhat like President Obama learning the direction to take the country through one-on-one interactions.) Instead, to avoid things like the Chris Matthews debacle,you establish input mechanisms and decision protocols.

So what’s more likely? The amateur reporters missed some key, vindicating points regarding Dr. Drake’s installation, or we have an amateur president who is missing some important leadership characteristics?