Shirvani discusses reform plan at UND
January 8, 2013 at 12:56 pm in Grand Forks Herald
Student success remains the focus of the North Dakota University System plan to overhaul admissions standards, which will not affect tuition rates, system Chancellor Hamid Shirvani said Tuesday at UND. Continue Reading
This will all ultimately result in a showdown between Shirvani, who wants to establish real admission standards with the result that UND and NDSU have some academic legitimacy, and Bresciani and Kelly whose priority is to maximize revenue streams by admitting anyone with a pulse who can write a check. I’m betting on the latter. There have been two types of chancellors for the NDUS: unqualified insiders (Isaak and Goetz), who continued the status quo whereby individual institutions function as independent fiefdoms, and qualified outsiders (Potts, Shirvani) who operate under the misconception that they actually wield power. The demise of Potts was due to the long tradition of presidents making end runs to legislators and SBHE members who, in his case, were unable to discern what a conman a certain NDSU president was. Despite all the lipservice to the contrary, this tradition will continue. And despite Shirvani’s best efforts, he will eventually recognize the unhappy truths regarding higher ed in ND, and leave for greener pastures.
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