More Suffering For Bearcat Fan

[Franny]

At least fans have someone to inexplicably point fingers at when sports teams lose.

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.d...WS01/303270027

Calling the move both a “vote of confidence” and an “investment in leadership,” the University of Cincinnati trustees on Tuesday extended President Nancy Zimpher’s contract until 2012.

“We want her to stay,” said trustees chairman Jeff Wyler, crediting Zimpher with raising the academic profile and reputation of UC along with its enrollment and donor support in her nearly four-year tenure there.

The extension came months after trustees tacked a year to Zimpher’s contract, saying they needed a cushion of time to negotiate a longer extension with the university’s 25th president.


Zimpher’s current base salary is $343,350. The contract calls to increase that to $380,164, but Zimpher refused the raise in light of the university’s of financial struggles – UC had to trim $27 million from its budget this year.

“I think that’s the right thing to do,” she said.


Seven of UC’s nine trustees -- Sandra Heimann and Margaret Buchanan, the Enquirer’s president and publisher, were absent – met briefly behind closed doors after their regular meeting Tuesday and re-opened to announce the agreement.

I'm just glad OSU passed on her!

[V3n0M]

Isn't this whole article an oxymoron?!?

Calling the move both a “vote of confidence” and an “investment in leadership,”...

...crediting Zimpher with raising the academic profile and reputation of UC along with its enrollment and donor support in her nearly four-year tenure there...

...but Zimpher refused the raise in light of the university’s of financial struggles – UC had to trim $27 million from its budget this year.

WTF??

[Jaakkola]

Not really. One of the main reasons for the budget shortfall is due to less funds from state of Ohio. UC gets money from the state and for the last couple of years the total amount as been lowered.

[Mopper]

The biggest reason for the short fall is that there are hundereds of professors at UC who don't teach any classes but still get compensated like they did. 30 years ago the average professor taught upwards of 4 classes per quarter. Now the University wide average is hovering at just above 2 classes per quarter. If someone could get the hundereds of people who don't teach class because they don't want to out of the lab and back in the classrooms. If they refuse to fire their ass. Whenever UC gets money from the state the vast majority of it does not find its way to the class rooms. It goes to sustain a growing population of professors who refuse to teach. Getting more money from the state will do very little to solve UC's budget problems.

[Franny]

Isn't that the ultimate goal of any person who decides to work in the education field? Get tenure and have a bunch of butt-kissing TA's do all the actual teaching while you conduct "research?"

[CincyCats3]

why bring her back? What has she done besides ambarass my school? can you really lead if no one respects you??????

[david aka the TYZ]

I'll start by saying I've never been a fan of Zimpher. The students hate her and the whole way she handled the Huggins situation shows she knows nothing about college athletics. With that said, she has raised the profile of the university and I think in a few years we might see the benefits of that. There are some things that I disagree with her on with her direction of the school but I won't go into details of that. Since the Huggins ordeal and maybe the Kennedy situation she has done and said the right things that lead me to believe she does care about a winning sports program. At first I don't think she did, but I think since coming to a big university she has seen the impact sports can have to a school. She was willing to give Dantonio more money and she hasn't hired schmucks in Kelly or Cronin to start the rebuilding process. She could have easily brought in nobody's and run the programs in the ground. Granted she didn't personally make the hires but she did approve them. She seems or at least the university with her at the helm seems serious about promoting its football status to the next level. She could easily kill that if she wanted. I'm not sure why she got named to the Big East advisory commitee or whatever it was, but that's a different story. I guess my point is I'm giving her a second chance. Sorry Nate to the dizzo, I know how much this will upset you.