The real story here is that Chancellor Jackson's financial leadership of UNT-Dallas is a complete failure. Someone needs to examine the fiscal health of all the different projects which are being pursued by the Chancellor. The fact is, he has been unsuccessful in bringing in sufficient funds and now he needs to raid UNT-Denton resources to cover his trail of red accounts. That's the real reason for the need to consolidate IT & HR to promote cost savings. To make the situation even more galling, because of his hot temper & firing of Bataille, he is costing the state of Texas over $1 million.

Chancellor Jackson is a politician who has sold UNT again and again for political favors. Devoid of a academic background or understanding, he has treated UNT, its faculty, and its resources using secret plans, as if he were its king. In 2002, he made a politically and racially-motivated deal with Texas Senator Royce West to hire incompetent Provost Howard Johnson over more-qualified candidates. Johnson had quietly been ushered out of Syracuse for mishandling numerous major faculty projects and having misplaced 500 graduate school applications. Over the objections of UNT President Pohl and the UNT Provost search committee, Jackson hired him.

In exchange for the promise of a UNT law school, he pandered to West and for three years--without intervention--let Johnson literally destroy honesty and academic integrity at UNT. Johnson illegally and unethically fired a dozen faculty to make faculty openings for the hoped-for law school. Johnson's hiring and havoc (not to mention the destroyed lives) lie at the feet of a racially-motivated political deal. Jackson violated the law to get a law school. Ironic, no?

Now, Jackson has fired a competent president almost instantaneously, over a tantrum. He moved the UNT system to Dallas in secret, without notifying the presidents of either the UNT-Denton or UNT Health Science center.

This man is a scourge who administers over the public's university as a despot. He is unknown to the students and faculty. He has made no contribution to we, the alumni, of UNT. Would, that we could be rid of him.

If you want to get rid of Jackson, get rid of Perry in November. Jackson is appointed by the Board of Regents, who are appointed by Perry. Not surprisingly, Jackson is a Perry crony.

Concerned Taxpayer, A concerned alumnus, Was Caesar,

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Jennifer P

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