Sounds like it's some sort of team - Engler & Blanchard for the interim.

MiamiSpartan wrote:I like that he mentions ESPN's own sexual misconduct issues, but mentions it along with FOX and NBC, so as not to stoop to ESPN's level.

MiamiSpartan wrote:I like that he mentions ESPN's own sexual misconduct issues, but mentions it along with FOX and NBC, so as not to stoop to ESPN's level.

LooseGoose wrote:New Engler appointee played historic role at MSU

As Tom Izzo was about to take the podium Saturday at Little Caesars Arena, Michigan State University interim president John Engler had a tense back-and-forth exchange with a reporter about the ongoing sexual assault controversies that have engulfed the university in recent months.

The former Michigan governor blasted ESPN for its own problems with sexual assault cases, nearly two months after the network ran a story in the wake of the Larry Nassar sentencing detailing allegations into Izzo’s basketball program and Mark Dantonio’s football program.

“The 50,000 students on campus are going to class, and they want a safe environment. I think you have a safer environment today, and with the changes we are making, we’re making significant progress,” Engler told a small scrum of reporters. “That’s very much to the good and that response to the larger national debate that ESPN is wrapped up in.

“Look at the sexual assaults you guys are dealing with as a company. It’s pretty serious. In many ways, their company is one of the worst offenders in the nation. So we have a sexual assault challenge in America today. But for Michigan State, we’re dealing with it on our campus.”

Engler answered, “Oh, I think ESPN is far worse than many companies in America today.”

The attack on ESPN is a continuation of a theme Engler touched on Thursday during a hearing before the state Senate’s higher education committee.

After he spent the first 10 minutes of his comments talking about all the ways MSU helps the state and complaining about not getting what he said was enough state aid, Engler switched over to talk about Nassar and MSU’s response.

He took the opportunity to get a dig in at ESPN. He talked about how sexual assault is a problem in lots of places. He then listed a bunch of famous people who have been accused of sexual assault, including Harvey Weinstein, and finished by saying that list includes "a lot of people at ESPN.”

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:I see he didn't tweet anything about what Engler said. Fucking coward.

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:Comp put up a video of the exchange. Can't link it. He handled it very well. He was calm and measured but pointed. Basically he answered Murphy's questions while simultaneously shutting him down.

Really tough position the U is in, in regards to the settlement and legislation. Kinda wish he'd meet privately with Denhollander.

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:Comp put up a video of the exchange. Can't link it. He handled it very well. He was calm and measured but pointed. Basically he answered Murphy's questions while simultaneously shutting him down.

Really tough position the U is in, in regards to the settlement and legislation. Kinda wish he'd meet privately with Denhollander.

The Matador wrote:

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:Comp put up a video of the exchange. Can't link it. He handled it very well. He was calm and measured but pointed. Basically he answered Murphy's questions while simultaneously shutting him down.

Really tough position the U is in, in regards to the settlement and legislation. Kinda wish he'd meet privately with Denhollander.

You have to treat Denhollendar like a rouge terrorist state - do not directly engage.

InTenSity wrote:

The Matador wrote:

You have to treat Denhollendar like a rouge terrorist state - do not directly engage.

It's Oklahoma a rouge terrorist state?

LooseGoose wrote:

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:Comp put up a video of the exchange. Can't link it. He handled it very well. He was calm and measured but pointed. Basically he answered Murphy's questions while simultaneously shutting him down.

Really tough position the U is in, in regards to the settlement and legislation. Kinda wish he'd meet privately with Denhollander.

I'm just happy to see someone slapping that little snot Murphy down.

LooseGoose wrote:Engler looks like he's going to engage the press a bit more....

John Engler to kick off Free Press' 'Breakfast Club' speakers series

On Thursday morning, May 10, at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham, President Engler has agreed to sit with me in a one-on-one forum being touted as “A Conversation With John Engler.” The chat kicks off the Free Press’ Breakfast Club series that I am honored to have been asked by Editor and Vice President Peter Bhatia to moderate. As I have begun preparing for the discussion, it has in many ways presented a challenge on just where to begin.

We will certainly talk about challenges of education in the region and state and opportunities to address the ongoing talent gap.

Engler has made his impact felt in business, politics and now education as few others in the nation.

He inherited a calamity at MSU and one that seemingly pops up with new problems virtually every other day. What has become clear is while the Larry Nassar debacle may have been the genesis for a change in university leadership, the issue in and of itself was far from the school’s only problem. Engler quickly discovered there is something structurally wrong at MSU and, from administrative changes to changes in athletic leadership, the university faced a need for a complete overhaul.

If anything has been amusing about the university in the last several days, it is the sudden interest in governance by some of its trustees who, after clearly failing to provide sufficient oversight (which led to Engler’s retention in the first place) now seek to critique his every move.

If I was a member of that body, I would let Engler do the job he was hired to do, be smarter about what I put in an email, air dirty laundry and discrepancies in private and cease the political posturing.

The conversation on the 10th will be candid and direct. No questions will be off limits. Not only do I know Engler expects that — he most likely welcomes it — as this will provide him an opportunity to clarify what he and others believe has been a misinformation campaign of significant proportion. I am looking forward to the session and believe attendees on the 10th will come away well informed.

LooseGoose wrote:MSU's Engler is set for a candid conversation at May 10 Free Press breakfast event

On Thursday morning, May 10, at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham, President Engler has agreed to sit with me in a one-on-one forum being touted as “A Conversation With John Engler.” The chat kicks off the Free Press’ Breakfast Club series that I am honored to have been asked by Editor and Vice President Peter Bhatia to moderate. As I have begun preparing for the discussion, it has in many ways presented a challenge on just where to begin.

We will certainly talk about challenges of education in the region and state and opportunities to address the ongoing talent gap.

Engler has made his impact felt in business, politics and now education as few others in the nation.

He inherited a calamity at MSU and one that seemingly pops up with new problems virtually every other day. What has become clear is while the Larry Nassar debacle may have been the genesis for a change in university leadership, the issue in and of itself was far from the school’s only problem. Engler quickly discovered there is something structurally wrong at MSU and, from administrative changes to changes in athletic leadership, the university faced a need for a complete overhaul.

If anything has been amusing about the university in the last several days, it is the sudden interest in governance by some of its trustees who, after clearly failing to provide sufficient oversight (which led to Engler’s retention in the first place) now seek to critique his every move.

If I was a member of that body, I would let Engler do the job he was hired to do, be smarter about what I put in an email, air dirty laundry and discrepancies in private and cease the political posturing.

The conversation on the 10th will be candid and direct. No questions will be off limits. Not only do I know Engler expects that — he most likely welcomes it — as this will provide him an opportunity to clarify what he and others believe has been a misinformation campaign of significant proportion. I am looking forward to the session and believe attendees on the 10th will come away well informed.

GRR Spartan wrote:Engler can begin to make some things right by sending newly appointed VP Veventi back to a job she understands. Administration in partisan political jobs.

A good sign is several members of the BOT including Mossalem are no longer staying silent on things like Engler's unauthorized meeting with Kaylee Lorincz and her mother.

But the single most exemplary leader of American higher education today in my judgment is Mitch Daniels at Purdue University. When he leaves Purdue’s presidency, tentatively planned for 2020 at age 71, the tuition level will be the same as it was when he took office at the beginning of 2013—over seven years earlier. Correcting for inflation, published tuition fees probably will have fallen a good 10 percent during the Daniels presidency. Since incomes are rising (albeit perhaps too slowly), the burden of becoming a Purdue Boilermaker has been steadily declining—in marked contrast to earlier in history.

President Daniels grasped quickly in his presidency that a large majority of money spent by contemporary research universities does not actually directly support the major missions—teaching and research. There are a lot of things universities do they are not particularly expert at, such as running power plants, conference centers, parking garages, and all sorts of other enterprises, not to mention providing food and housing to thousands of students. Using insights probably developed in his years as a business executive at drug giant Eli Lilly, Daniels has found hundreds of ways to save a few dollars here, a few dollars there. It all adds up.

At the same time, Purdue has actually added tenure-track faculty positions. Moreover, Daniels made freezing tuition a central goal, rather than, more typically, tuition fees being a residual consideration—determined after a multiplicity of other (often expensive) goals were achieved.

There are a lot of things universities do they are not particularly expert at, such as running power plants, conference centers, parking garages, and all sorts of other enterprises, not to mention providing food and housing to thousands of students. Using insights probably developed in his years as a business executive at drug giant Eli Lilly, Daniels has found hundreds of ways to save a few dollars here, a few dollars there. It all adds up.

Heat Miser wrote:According to our local alumni president, Engler is donating his entire salary back to the U.