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PrezBo too will remain seated, pensive, and probably nude in his office
According to a rumor, President Bollinger just received a two year extension on his contract. On Friday, the Columbia University Board of Trustees voted to extend PrezBo’s contract until 2018.
PrezBo was originally set to leave Low in 2016. Back in 2010, Bloomberg reported that Bollinger had “agreed with the board of trustees” to a contract that pushed the end his term (beginning in 2002, when he replaced George Rupp) from 2012 to 2016.
It seems that this extension came as no surprise to PrezBo. In an interview with Spec last October, PrezBo described the end date of his presidency in loose terms, saying “I’m making no plans about when [I will step down]. I’m continuing to act as if I’ll do this forever, which, obviously, is not true. But the kind of illusion that this goes on and on is the right way to approach this job. It’s a great honor and I’m very appreciative.”
Lately, under PrezBo’s watch, the university has been getting bad press in places like the front page of the New York Times regarding the mishandling of sexual assault. PrezBo was also— rather predictably —criticized by this year’s Varsity Show for his lack of engagement with undergrads.
By 2018, Bollinger will have been president for sixteen years, making his tenure the longest since Nicholas Murray Butler’s 43-year reign.
A younger PrezBo via Wikimedia Commons
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@Anonymous Not if he gets cancer and dies by then…
Fingers crossed (:
@bank yup. fourth highest paid university president in the country. $2.3 million. and it keeps going up and up and up.
@PrezBo Fan Stay forever plzzzz you have elevated our prestige sooo much during your tenure
@Totally PrezBo Thank you, young Alistair.
@Alum “PrezBo was originally set to leave Low in 2016.”
He was never “set to leave” his job. The terms of his contract ran through 2016, which means that’s when new terms would take effect after he and the trustees negotiated. He could leave then if he wanted to, but there was no presumption that he would.
@Campus Journalist I had heard that he planned to leave once the first building in Manhattanville opened, hence 2016.
@informed i also heard this.
@StuReports We could ask him, but he only meets with students by lottery. Why are there no PrezBo office hours? Even one a month? Come on.
@Vicki L. Guess we don’t matter. Need to pay more $$
@overstayed it’s long past time for progressive and involved leadership at cu. in the fall the senate must take up the issue of term limits for the president (like those for the deanship of the law school).
@Anonymous This is good news for Columbia. He is perhaps one of the best Presidents in Columbia history. Columbia is now consistently in the top three or four for admissions, teaching, research, fundraising, donations. He has catapulted Columbia on par with peers Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
@Anonymous Get off your knees.
@Anonymous yeah but in appeasing the liberals, he has disenfranchised and vilified male students. The fact that men are treated as second-class citizens who are guilty until proven innocent will be reflected by our decreasing yield.
@Anonymous *adjusts fedora, strokes neckbeard sagely*
@Anonymous Are you judging someone based on his appearance. You are the paragon of filthy lib hypocrisy.
@lol hahahahahahaha
@wake up who is this person? which of his cronies wrote this? wake up people. bollinger big ideas. tuition is sky high. fundraising is completely stalled. yet bollinger gets a 20% raise every year. pay attention. look at it. he’s leaving in 2018? why would he? with his paycheck and zero accountability–he’s not going anywhere. in 2016 he’ll extend to 2020. do you think it’s an accident he renewed his contract in the summer and not the spring or fall? he doesn’t want anyone to take notice. look around. get involved. ask the right questions.
@Le r/conspiracy WAKE UP SHEEEPLE!!!!!
@cbs b-school is down not up. it’s not alone.
@Really Anonymous? Catapulted?? Columbia went up in some rankings, by a few slots, down in others. And the larger point, where it did, it was the accomplishment of many, not just one.
@Lee Carol Bollinger Sr. Dats rite fokes. I gots me a job.