Chancellor Rogers Won’t Do His Job?
October 18th, 2007It looks like Nevada’s taxes are going to grow pretty close to population growth and inflation. The problem is that state government spending is budgeted to grow faster than this. So Governor Gibbons did what Governors Miller and Guinn each did, faced with a similar circumstance: ask state agency heads to prepare a plan to still spend more than last year, just not by as much. Such plan may or may not be implemented, but it is prudent to have such a plan.
Except Chancellor Rogers refuses. The RJ headline says “Chancellor Defies Governor’s Request“:
Rogers flatly said he would not.
“We don’t have a plan,” Rogers said. “You just can’t say to somebody, ‘You’ve got ten dollars today, how would you do with seven?’”
He said he suggested to Gibbons that he call a special session of the Legislature to raise taxes to cover the shortfall, but the governor refused the idea.
Don’t get me wrong - I like Jim Rogers, and the higher education system could have no more forceful and enthusiastic cheerleader. I might correct his math once in a while - his allegory should be “You’re going to give me ten dollars over the next two years, roughly 42-cents a month. Now you want to drop that by three-tenths of a cent per month?” - but I genuinely like the guy.
However, developing such a contingency plan is government 101, a basic job duty of a government agency manager. If he won’t do it, we need to find someone who will.
October 20th, 2007 at 9:27 am
I say it’s high time that the bombastic old *#%@ just shuts up and turns over all of his money to his pet cause. Why am I
forced to pay for college?? It should be run by private enterprise. I’m not trying to get his money, why should he be allowed to claim mine?
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:18 pm
It is amazing to me that Chancellor Rogers doesn’t even pretend to follow the basics of Higher Ed Administrative Processes used to evaluate Upper management administrators.
His very arrogant attitude decrying he will not do what his superior “GOVERNOR GIBBONS” officially ordered him to do is ALWAYS CALLED INSUBORDINATION. Even IN THE LEGALIZE OF HIGHER EDUCATION EDUCRATS 100% of the time it is GROUNDS FOR TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT FOR “CAUSE” even in the U of Nevada system!
ROGERS IS JUST LIKE ALL HIS OTHER ARROGANT SECULAR PROGRESSIVES WITHIN THE NEVADA UNIVERSITY SYSTEM. THEY CONSIDER THEMSELVES SELF APPOINTED “ELITISTS” sent here by a Higher Authority to dispense wisdom and knowledge to all us common folks.
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:19 pm
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October 23rd, 2007 at 4:45 pm
It is very important to stop the endless handouts for everything that makes entrenched bureaucrats comfortable. If he wants to make up the difference, pull from the hip. Otherwise, give him a funding goal and let him stick to it. As the Chancellor, he does work for the Governor. If we had unlimited funding, we would not need a Chancellor to run the University system, it would simply run itself. The Chancellor’s job, whether he takes pay or not, is to work for the people of the State of Nevada to maximize the University’s benefit to them, not subsidize everything the University asks for. It is not so much that I disagree with the amount they need, and I really believe our universities are world class institutions, but at some point, they have to understand that we live in a free enterprise economy (at least for a bit longer) and that our Constitution was designed to give people OPPORTUNITIES, not HANDOUTS. After all, freedom is the right to choose, not the right to enslave.
Anyway, keep up the good work. I am proud of my Governor for not caving like our supposed Republican, Kenny Guinn did. I guess Republicans are not what they used to be. I hope Gibbons remains brave in the face of the Socialists like our Chancellor and his toadies in the legislature.