No Regents Meeting Today
The regents never met, and the President didn't even end up having a meeting this morning. Looks like we will be waiting on this one for awhile.
Just clearing up a rumor: There isn't a #UMICH regents meeting today. Never was one.
— David Jesse (@reporterdavidj) September 30, 2014
No regents, & U-M spokesman Rick Fitzgerald said Schlissel wasn't there either, @mikeproppe. Just talked to Rick again. No regents mtg 2day.
— Jeremy Allen (@JeremyAllenA2) September 30, 2014September 30th, 2014 at 1:59 PM ^
The regents are elected officials who are rarely in the public eye. they are really playing with fire here.
September 30th, 2014 at 1:59 PM ^
Is this a political move? If so, vote them all out when the time comes. Like have a list we check off when every current member gets kicked out Brandon style.
September 30th, 2014 at 2:24 PM ^
Good point...Lets vote them out stricktly on how they handle the athletic department. God knows that they don't actually play a major role tackeling real issues regarding the academic integrity/reach of the University.
And bc they aren't having a public meeting, lets also assume that they never meet based on little to no information bc we are unhappy. We sure know that they never held clandestine meetings in the past, say in regards to chosing our current president. /s
September 30th, 2014 at 2:44 PM ^
They're going to have a public meeting when they're ready to act. A few hours after Brandon's statement is too soon for that. There are surely a lot of discussions going on in private.They'll reach a consensus behind the scenes rather than risk a messy argument at an open meeting.
September 30th, 2014 at 5:10 PM ^
yeah, as much as I am fired up about this situation, I care a little bit more about the academic side of the university. I am pretty happy with the performance of the board from an academic point of view. Sure there are issues I would like to see cleaned when it comes to administration pay and employment protections. However, that is for another discussion at another time.
September 30th, 2014 at 1:59 PM ^
September 30th, 2014 at 3:27 PM ^
I mean, they could just march over there at the end. It's about a hundred yards from the Diag.
September 30th, 2014 at 2:01 PM ^
They're not going to do anything until the money starts to dry up
September 30th, 2014 at 2:08 PM ^
You don't think the administration sees serious potential for the money to dry up here? We can hardly give away tickets to the games. The money is already drying up.
September 30th, 2014 at 2:12 PM ^
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September 30th, 2014 at 2:09 PM ^
We hoped much yet expected less.
But we wil not settle for nothing.
Everyone - back to the keyboards! Flood the Regent's inboxes with emails of dissapproval!
Throw in a few enhancement links just for fun.
EDIT:
This was supposed to be tongue in cheek. I guess it sounded better in my head
September 30th, 2014 at 2:04 PM ^
give the regents a chance to gather all the info first before calling for their heads. i would guess they meet within the week.
September 30th, 2014 at 2:10 PM ^
Seriously. The groupthink and leaping to conclusions based on essentially zero evidence has reached an all-time high here.
September 30th, 2014 at 2:05 PM ^
and when??
September 30th, 2014 at 2:07 PM ^
Two of them every two years.
September 30th, 2014 at 2:47 PM ^
Voters in the State of Michigan?
September 30th, 2014 at 2:05 PM ^
It was Mark Schlissel's communications meeting for the President and his staff at which the concussion issue was supposed to be raised. It's not clear whether Regents were supposed to be invited to the meeting.
September 30th, 2014 at 2:07 PM ^
What about this - from the earlier mlive article? Why wouldn't anyone ask Fitzgerald about this comment? I'm sick of crappy journalism. Ask the fucking questions, people.
University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald said Schlissel would be involved in a communications meeting Tuesday morning, and that the handling of the Morris situation will be discussed.
"I don't have anything from the president to share at this point," Fitzgerald said Tuesday morning.
"We're going to be checking in later this morning. We're going to be talking about the situation. It's just a communications meeting at this point, but we'll probably have something toshare after that."
September 30th, 2014 at 3:03 PM ^
Yeah exactly, what the hell was this all about if there was no meeting:
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2014/09/u-m_president_boa…
September 30th, 2014 at 2:25 PM ^
Keep in mind that this particular Board of Regents has almost ZERO actual discussion of important topics in public due to the Open Meetings Act. They talk to each other over the phone about big decisions so as to keep their discussions private and avoid a formal meeting. It's entirely possible they're currently discussing their options, just that they're doing so informally.
September 30th, 2014 at 2:41 PM ^
I don't think it's unrelated to say that the time they did have an open meeting, they publically voted down the fireworks issue and took the opportunity to slam Dave Brandon.
September 30th, 2014 at 2:09 PM ^
Regent 1: "Hey guys, are we still meeting today at 1pm?"
Regent 2: "Why? Didn't we all vote over email that Brandon is done?"
President: "No meeting, voting was unanimous. Want to grab lunch instead?"
Regent 1: "I'm in... but not driving (Vickie has the car today for work)"
Regent 2: "I'll drive... but no Chinese. Driver's choice."
September 30th, 2014 at 2:11 PM ^
Brandon should resign.
September 30th, 2014 at 2:13 PM ^
September 30th, 2014 at 2:29 PM ^
Probably had a Skype-date instead
September 30th, 2014 at 2:31 PM ^
I don't think the could have held the meeting today anyway. The Open Meetings Act requires 18 hours notice for a Special Session. Less for an Emergency, but this is not an Emergency under the law.
September 30th, 2014 at 3:03 PM ^
just to inform us of that pertinent fact. Much appreciated.
September 30th, 2014 at 3:57 PM ^
No problem. A recent Michigan Court of Appeals ruling has upheld the idea of posting a piece of paper, in a locked building for 18 hours to fulfill this requirement.
At anytime they can post a notice at the Union, and nowhere else, and hold the meeting in as little as 18 hours from theat time.
September 30th, 2014 at 3:32 PM ^
Goodyear? No, the worst