JHU President Bloomberg?
April 23, 2008
Is the mayor of the Big Apple considering the soon-to-be open position of Johns Hopkins University president?
The AP seems to think it’s possible.
From their story:
Consider his answers this week when he was asked about two of the most recent rumors: that he would buy the Times or could be president of Johns Hopkins University, his alma mater, to which he’s given more than $100 million.
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Regarding the buzz about taking over Johns Hopkins, where a fraternity brother has reportedly circulated a letter to get the idea going, Bloomberg said his average grades in school likely keep him off the short list.
“Nobody thinks I should be president,” he said.
From Karen Buckelew’s March story about Brody’s retirement:
Standing on Decker Quadrangle, a swath of grass adjacent to the visitor’s center on the university’s Homewood campus, he squinted into the brisk wind and recalled what Michael Bloomberg told him May 2002, when the recently elected mayor of New York resigned as Hopkins board chair.
“He turned to me and said, ‘Don’t screw it up!’” Brody recalled, laughing.
What do you think? Should Michael Bloomberg replace William Brody?
JACKIE SAUTER, Web Editor
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No. President of a university, particularly one as good as Hopkins, is an academic job, not a commercial one. The cultures of commerce and education, at least education at the university level, do not mix (I should add, but it ought to be self-evident, that fraternity members are not a good source of information about the nature of education). Only a fool thinks of students as customers and classes as products. Besides, Bloomberg is an exceptional public administrator. Why would he deny some constituency those talents? Why would he want to be President of Hopkins, except for some misguided nostalgia for “college years” gone by? It has none of the fast paced excitement and immediate real world effects of what he does now. This is a silly idea generated, no doubt, by people who are psychologically underemployed.
Hopkins search team thought they were considering Dwight Eisenhouer before they eventually hired Milton Eisenhouer. Universities are commerce oriented. Hopkins does it best. Look at the income stream. They loose money educating students. They make money selling research. “Psychologically underemployed?” Come down from your Ivory Tower and tell us what you really think.