In a 14-0 vote today, the KCUMB Board vetoed the plan, which to all intents and purposes never really got off the ground in the first place.
Naturally, Speck continued to wallow and sulk in conclusion, leaving the heavy lifting to spokesman Rod Surber. From the Chart article:
University President Bruce Speck could not be reached for comment Tuesday. University spokesperson Rod Surber said Speck would not be available for comment, and said he didn’t know why.
The article says board member Dwight Douglas, who has continued to push the idea that the program was realistic and inevitable, also had no comment.
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Speck and Douglas really sold MSSU and the Joplin community a bill of goods on this one.
Rob O'Brian, You got the business people of this town to line up behind the wrong horses...
The wrong end of two bad horses at that!!!!
Speck publicly spoke of his fake financial crisis, even discussed bankrutcy with a Carthage reporter. Next he creates a 'get rich scheme' medical school and even after he knew it wasn't going to happen borrowed $ 250,000 through the Foundation.
When is the Board and Comunity going to realize what the faculty, students and so many job applicants understand? Speck needs to relieved of his Presidential duties immediately. He can't manage, can't perform and now he won't even talk to anyone.
Julio looks better and better every day.
Read the article, stupid. It does NOT say that the med school is dead . . . it says that KCUMB is declining to support it "at this time."
The med school is dead.
Doesn't something have to have been alive at one point before it can be dead? This was always a quixotic pipe dream that had little chance of ever breaking ground.
And if it had, how would it have benefitted MSSU? Southern wasn't going to offer the classes, teach the classes, or collect tuition. It was just going to build a building and rent it to another institution. Most of the rent would surely have been spent on the upkeep of the building. It would have been good for Joplin, sure, but financially it would have been a wash for Southern at best. What a grand strategy to bring prosperity to MSSU. Now maybe they can concentrate on what their real problems are.
We all know what "at this time" means
Dwight, or Bruce, or Rob O'Brien, or Bill Gibson, or Gary Duncan, or whoever you are 7:15 pm. IT MEANS IT'S DEAD!!!!!, as Randy just said.
If you believe in the "at this time", I have a draw bridge in Oronogo to sell you... Hee, hee, heee
It's time for big demonstrations against......the Board of Governors.
THEY are the real culprits, not Bruce.
Let's have another vote of no-confidence. This time on the BoG...
The Board of Governors has no accountability. They are never evaluated. They rule with impunity... and stupidity. Expect nothing from them.
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