{"id":376,"date":"2013-04-08T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/08\/ut-power-struggle-cannot-continue"},"modified":"2013-04-08T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T14:06:00","slug":"ut-power-struggle-cannot-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"UT power struggle cannot continue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The power struggle that\u2019s enveloping the University of Texas System is not going to end well if the system regents don\u2019t back off and let the man they hired to run the flagship campus do his job without interference.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/04\/08\/the-brief-top-texas-news-for-april-8-2013\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/04\/08\/the-brief-top-texas-news-for-april-8-2013\/\">http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/04\/08\/the-brief-top-texas-news-for-april-8-2013\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UT-Austin President Bill Powers has been in an ongoing battle with regents who many critics are saying \u2013 in an increasingly loud voice \u2013 are meddling in administrative matters that should be within the purview of the campus\u2019s chief executive officer.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Tribune reports that the temperature is elevating once more in the regents\u2019 board room. Regents Chairman Gene Powell has asked Attorney General Greg Abbott if the system can withhold information from state legislators who are seeking system records. My advice, for what it\u2019s worth, to the AG is to force the regents to give everything up. And this is where Senate Higher Education Committee Chairman Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, can step in. He runs the committee that oversees higher ed affairs \u2013 in which the UT System, of course, is a huge player.<\/p>\n<p>No one is suggesting malfeasance on Powers\u2019s part. No one is saying out loud that he\u2019s doing a poor job of running the UT System\u2019s mother-ship campus. If he was doing badly, he\u2019d be fired.<\/p>\n<p>My strongest hope is not necessarily for Bill Powers, who I do not know. It is for the UT System, which has graduated a lot of fine folks with whom I am acquainted. Some of \u2018em even are good friends of mine. They\u2019re sick about what\u2019s going on there.<\/p>\n<p>Fix this problem, ladies and gentlemen.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The power struggle that\u2019s enveloping the University of Texas System is not going to end well if the system regents don\u2019t back off and let the man they hired to run the flagship campus do his job without interference. http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/04\/08\/the-brief-top-texas-news-for-april-8-2013\/ UT-Austin President Bill Powers has been in an ongoing battle with regents who many critics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=376\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UT power struggle cannot continue<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}