{"id":13261,"date":"2019-05-01T11:28:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T17:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/?p=13261"},"modified":"2019-05-01T11:28:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T17:28:16","slug":"what-regents-say-they-knew-and-didnt-about-cu-presidential-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2019\/05\/01\/what-regents-say-they-knew-and-didnt-about-cu-presidential-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"What regents say they knew \u2013 and didn\u2019t \u2013 about CU presidential pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"secondary-title\">Some say they chose Mark Kennedy with eyes wide open. Others say they were blindsided by his conservative congressional record.<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>But in the ensuing weeks, revelations about Kennedy\u2019s recent performance at UND and his conservative voting record more than a decade ago in Congress have triggered an uproar from students, faculty, alumni and donors. Regents now disagree on what they knew about his background, what they should have been told, and whether it\u2019s relevant. Some say they have been blindsided by revelations that O\u2019Rourke\u2019s report omitted, and others say they chose Kennedy with their eyes wide open. The partisan divide on the nine-member board has split even further, with a Republican regent castigating his Democratic counterparts for backpedaling and feigning ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>Two academics in Virginia had tried to warn CU regents against their \u201csecret selection\u201d process. Now that their advice has gone unheeded, those professors \u2013 who study public university hiring practices \u2013 say regents \u201chave lost the trust of the (CU) community and perhaps the community at large.\u201d\u00a0In the meantime, former Sen. Mark Udall is calling on regents to reopen the selection process, as are hundreds of alumni who are blasting them for their \u201cmind-boggling\u201d lack of transparency and threatening to withhold future donations.<\/p>\n<p>As the board prepares to cast final votes on Kennedy Thursday, it appears, to the frustration of many, that Colorado\u2019s flagship university, one that worked for\u00a0decades boosting its reputation for research and scholarship, fell short on both while searching for a new president.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradoindependent.com\/2019\/04\/30\/university-colorado-regents-president-kennedy\/\">[Check out the full story from the Colorado Independent]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some say they chose Mark Kennedy with eyes wide open. Others say they were blindsided by his conservative congressional record. But in the ensuing weeks, revelations about Kennedy\u2019s recent performance at UND and his conservative voting record more than a decade ago in Congress have triggered an uproar from students, faculty, alumni and donors. Regents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}