By: An alumnus

An alumnus
Thu, 16 Nov 2017 14:11:38 +0000

"Dr. Michael Caligiuri, the CEO of the James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, resigned Wednesday, less than two weeks after Ohio State announced in a press release he would continue on with his role." This makes one wonder what the Board and Dr. Drake were doing -- or not doing -- in those two weeks. The abject failures at the top of the University doubtless made it more and more difficult for Dr. Caligiuri to recruit and retain the people OSU needs. At some point, it may have become just to difficult to keep up hope. Under any circumstances, it would have been challenging to recruit someone to replace Dr.Caligiuri, but the actions -- and inactions -- of Dr. Drake and the Board make it even more challenging. It is a different situation altogether, but this may be a reprise of the OSUMB fiasco, where the University was unable to recruit anyone to come to OSU. Good opportunity for the search firm, though.