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Saw online that mackie nelson is visiting tennessee... Honestly she could be a good fit for caldwells system

I would love to see a real budget break down between instruction, administration, and facility upgrades. My take from my time in school and when I went through the process to be a student rep for the BOV is that admin and facility upgrade costs are out of control.

One recent example is the push to eliminate the LLCs due to overhead costs. As someone who was in galileo for 2 years, the things that made galileo good were free. They added nonsense expenses and staff when the true benefit is the concentration of students in the dorms and mentorship.

Any time you look at any level of education you see student numbers reasonably flat, teachers increasing just slightly more than students, and then administrative overhead going insane. At every level we keep throwing money at this black hole with no increase in quality of education and if anything the quality is decreasing as spending increases.

I know someone at Octo, now IBM. Very well managed business and at the time of acquisition all employees were retained. Not sure about now but high retention rate normally indicates a very well built org. But that doesn't necessarily mean he builds a well organized business. at some point the founder/ceo is mostly just working strategy and selling. the management they hire just below them become in charge of building and maintaining the organization.

all that said. Who cares. He's not being brought on BOV to build an organization. The new President will do that, from what I belive is the actual benefit of this BOV change a clear directional voice that understands modern era business and values academics and athletics cooperatively.

Coach Tanelli out too

Yes of course. The 1.2 billion dollar sale to IBM of his roughly 1,500 people organization in 2022 was definetly just a "paper tiger."

Im sorry you had a bad experience working somewhere that didnt have a fancy organizational chart but that doesn't have anything do with mehul's credentials. He was also appointed to the board in 2014 and 2018.

Its unclear based on the very little I know of octo if he can build an organization, he got his company sold, that doesn't mean internal organization worked well, or if at all. I've worked on a successful mulit-bilion dollar program that has never had a organization chart. It went 7 months with out a PM and still is going, its a mess and communication has always been terrible, but the hire smart people that know when to get out duct tape and bailing wire. when needed. At this point the lessons learned (more like observed) is so large its not useful.l to knowing how to run the program.

And maybe we need some one to build a paper tiger so VT gets "sold" to a P2,, but thats not building an organization.

I mean he knows a thing or two building an organization, sounds like as good of a board pick as any.

Facts shouldn't be political, but I hear you

The president has little sway in that. It's up to the Board and the president is not a voting member of the Board. State support on a per-student basis is way down over the last 25 years. This is a political problem so I won't get into it on this forum but there's a reason why VT has to keep increasing its cost. We're getting less and less from the state and the next few years of budget look pretty dicey...

Ladies lose 4-3

Yep, it's going in right next to the Prices Fork/N Main roundabout next to Kabrich St. Saw a whole comment section full of townies huffing and puffing about it myself recently.

4-3 now after bases loaded walk