Stanford’s President and Provost Must Resign

Post by dekhn » Thu, May 26, 2022, 8:44 PM UTC

shkkmo wrote: post #49

dekhn wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm trying to track down the truthfulness of the claims that Stanford's administration lied to its accreditor. If that isn't independently verifiable, I'm going to ignore the rest of this complaint, as (based on several details) it looks like a person with a personal vendetta is trying to make a larger case than exists.

The details are here: https://erdorsey2.medium.com/persis-drell-should-resign-as-s... There is a personal vendetta for sure, but also probably some underlying sketchiness from the Stanford administration that prompted said vendetta.

I wouldn't take their description of these events as gospel. They clearly use selective information disclosure to enhance their case. For example, they imply their investigative journalism led to Drell no longer being employed at Stanford. She is the Director of Stanford Linear Accelerator.

In short: this individual is not operating on level and is attempting to make stanford's administration look more evil than they actually are. The statements about lies are literally only believed by this one individual.

Post by covermydonkey » Fri, May 27, 2022, 8:45 AM UTC

Animats wrote: post #21

amluto wrote: post #14

> Dean Caldera also runs a side consulting business offering “individualized college admissions assistance” for upwards of $4,000 an applicant. Regardless of whether this is related to an above average suicide rate, this looks bad. I’m quite surprised the administration tolerates it. edit: I’ll add that I have personal experience with a (former) university staffer who was (a) corrupt, (b) egregiously failing to do th…

That's a conflict of interest and grounds for termination. If you worked for a company, and had a side business to teach suppliers how to sell to that company, you'd be fired.

At my Big Corp (tm) we just let someone go because he offered a service to coach vendors on 1) How to get on our supplier list and 2) our internal criteria for vendor selection. He also charged for the service and as IT Ops head had a great deal of say over how this worked internally.

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