Questions swirl as Texas Southern University president placed on leave


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The president of Texas Southern University has been placed on administrative leave, the school’s Board of Regents announced Friday.

Austin A. Lane was put on leave with pay, according the the university. An announcement released by the board did not identify a reason for Lane’s leave

 
They better come out with reasons for his dismissal soon b/c I don't trust our board.

1) They rarely show up to meetings
2) Most never went to TSU for undergrad
3) I believe most are trash Republicans mad about the Democratic debate held on campus last fall
4) I'm not sure if any are qualified to sit on the board based on their resumes

I'm slightly on the fence with Dr. Lane because sometimes he comes off as an overgrown fratty "pretty boy" which I feel is a problematic image to have as a university president. And I understand he wants to come across as super cool for the students but I feel there's more cleaver and dignified ways to go by doing that in the public eye. TSU already has a "party school, all play no work" reputation among many so we need leadership help to counter that narrative. Also most people (especially non-black people) don't associate college frats with prestige and sophistication ... it's something you expected to kinda outgrow in mainstream society so it's just not a good look for him as our president.

But under Dr. Lane leadership, the campus has looked better than ever, graduation rates are slowly ticking up, and I think alumni giving is up. TSU can improve in so many other areas but right now I feel Dr. Lane is the man for the job. Now if the allegations revealed are disturbing than my opinion will change, but until then he's the man for the job.
 
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HOUSTON – The Texas Southern University Board of Regents put President Dr. Austin Lane on administrative leave indefinitely Friday, pending an investigation by the audit committee.

The issue was discussed during a Regents’ meeting at the Houstonian Hotel Friday afternoon. Lane will be on leave with pay during the investigation.

Lane told KPRC 2 he was “caught off guard" by the news as he hadn’t been informed by the board that he was being put on leave.

“I haven’t done anything and haven’t been informed of being placed on administrative leave by the board on their 5-4 vote split down middle,” Lane told KPRC 2. “I expect to be reinstated immediately or paid out for the remainder of my contract for breach of contract.”

Lane told KPRC 2 he wasn’t invited to either the closed- or open-door meetings of the Board of Regents Friday. He also claimed that he’s never discussed any violations with the board and he has a stellar reputation and record.

The university’s Chief Financial Officer, Henneth Huewitt was named interim president, the board announced in a statement.

Lane said he is in the first year of a three-year contract and his lawyer is working to determine if the board is violating Lane’s contract by putting him on leave and appointing an interim president.
 
They better come out with reasons for his dismissal soon b/c I don't trust our board.

1) They rarely show up to meetings
2) Most never went to TSU for undergrad
3) I believe most are trash Republicans mad about the Democratic debate held on campus last fall
4) I'm not sure if any are qualified to sit on the board based on their resumes
1. They have to have a quorum to conduct meetings, so obviously the majority show up
2. Looking at their bios most attended TSU for undergrad or Law
3. Most don't appear to be Trump supporters lol
4. There are a lot of impressive backgrounds listed
 
I am sure he knows.

Pop my school is independent, thus it has its own governing board. I have witnessed past TSU boards operate clandestinely and provide informaton and facts days subsequent to their actions. I believe Lane was caught off guard just as he claimed, but subsequent to the board meeting perhaps a day or two later I'm sure he was informed.
 
1. They have to have a quorum to conduct meetings, so obviously the majority show up
2. Looking at their bios most attended TSU for undergrad or Law
3. Most don't appear to be Trump supporters lol
4. There are a lot of impressive backgrounds listed

*This is a new board and as usual their attendance will decline as time passes.
*Trump has an impressive background, but is dumb as a box of rocks. Most historians consider him the dumbest president in modern history.
*You don't know who's a Trump supporter or not by looking at bios. I'm sure most are Trump loving Republicans b/c they were appointed by a Republican governor
 
TSU board member speaks out against regents’ decision to place president on leave

A Texas Southern University Board of Regents member says he is angry and frustrated after the board placed the historically black college’s president Austin A. Lane on administrative leave last week without giving the president notice or much explanation.

“I’m extremely disappointed and frustrated by the actions taken by the majority of the board. I feel like all protocols (were) violated,” said Ron Price, a board member since being appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott in February 2019. “The board did not handle this the right way. … I’ve never seen anything like this before.”
 
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We're almost a week in this bullshit and still no answer.

Then they have the nerve to put a man with less degrees than I do as the university president? I have a master's degree ... I expect whoever they put in that position to have that or higher. The board is trash and don't care about us. If I hit the lottery, I'm going to privatize TxSU.
 
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We're almost a week in this bullshit and still no answer.

Then they have the nerve to put a man with less degrees than I do as the university president? I have a master's degree ... I expect whoever they put in that position to have that or higher. The board is trash and don't care about us. If I hit the lottery, I'm going to privatize TxSU.

Gray I think you're on to something. There is some real b/s going on with some of these regents. The Chronicle dropped another news story around noon time today. The last two stories are a bad look for the regents.

 
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@tsugraytiger

Does all of this have any merit?

Will King Lane lose his kingdom?




- January 04, 2020

On Monday, November 18, 2019 the Board of Regents met for a closed door, unscheduled meeting. Sometimes unexpected things happen and unscheduled meetings need to be called for, so this wasn't really unusual for the BOR to meet without scheduling but what made it so unusual was that King Lane, nor Provost Harris nor Wendel Williams (the President's confidant) were invited or possibly not even allowed to be in the meeting which makes us give deep pause and wonder- is King Lane on his way to the exit lane?
Bear with us as we reminisce on the past 3.5 years of King Lane's tenure:
1) Tried to get the BOR to approve a $2.5 million mansion for his family and him to live in despite already receiving several thousand dollars a month in living stipend. King Lane brought up the mansion proposal on at least 3 separate BOR meetings unsuccessfully.
2) Spent $100,000 on Rockets courtside basketball tickets
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2019/04/confirmed-president-lane-buys-100k.html

3) Had to do 2 "do-overs" on several school dean searches, notably the law school, SOPA and Jones Business school. Either King Lane was dissatisfied with the final pickings or he picked some very wrong individuals and they either were under pressure to resign or outright terminated and we had to do the dean search all over again.
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-never-ending-story-of-never-ending.html
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-case-of-disappeared-dean.html
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2019/02/rumble-and-stumble-in-sopa-dean-seach.html
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2018/11/sopa-dean-searchun-deux.html
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2018/11/new-colabs-dean-search-committee.html

4) Rumored to have either lied repeatedly or obscured the truth regarding total enrollment at TSU to BOR. This affects our funding also from the DOE and Texas and harms the relationship between the president and the BOR which is critical for getting things done.
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2019/01/will-real-enrollment-numbers-please.html

5) Too many problems with the law school accreditation.
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-law-school-saga-continues.html
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2019/03/aba-accreditation-problems-at-our-law.html

6) Law school admissions scandal- https://abc13.com/education/tsu-law-school-tied-to-admissions-improprieties-sources/5705898/
7) Muzzled and threatened (through the Provost office) some of the faculty through vague insubordination terminology of "mass emails" when faculty were simply expressing their First Amendment right and also wanted to make sure other faculty knew about goings-on campus which in many cases the Lane regime appeared to try and hide. One faculty member appears to have been suspended indefinitely as we wrote a few months ago and may never come back to campus due to "mass emails" and “insubordination”.

https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-dangerous-new-weapon-used-by-king-lane.html
7) Suspicious and sudden changes in several high and mid-level administrators, some of whom appeared to have left TSU with a cloud of suspicion regarding possibly unethical and illegal activities. This includes at least one possible dean (our very first post) and possibly at least one more dean.
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-case-of-disappeared-dean.html

8) Brought in Koch Brothers money which has corrupted and destroyed the morale and fabric of too many universities and which has resulted in either lawsuits or severe disagreements among faculty and administrators at George Mason, Auburn and Florida State. There may even be a lawsuit at TSU involving the CJR. The Koch money which established the Center for Justice Research and has harmed the university's reputation irrevocably, especially with the recent Houston Chronicle articles and the 31 academics who have condemned the Center's decision to put forth spurious and biased research, possibly to advance a neo-conservative agenda which is certainly not friendly to academics and definitely not friendly to an HBCU.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/ne...-Harris-DA-s-office-overburdened-14302364.php

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/ne...se-concerns-about-report-finding-14539787.php

https://www.prosecutorreport.com/

https://www.prosecutorreport.com/note

https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-center-for-justice-research-stands.html

9) Manipulated and controlled the Faculty Senate and it's former President- Dr. Javus Cavil- until he was defeated by Professor Wu recently. Dr. Cavil was successfully able to block several key items the faculty senate wanted to be delivered to King Lane, either by not placing them on the agenda or he would drag the meetings on until the items would need to be tabled until the next meeting. Cavil also went with Lane on several expensive taxpayer pleasure junkets- for what meaningful purpose?
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2019/01/an-impotent-and-ineffective-faculty.html

10) Hired past cronies of his for work on the faculty salary inequity research study as we mentioned on our February 25, 2019 post. It also appears that the Precision Group then turned around and outsourced their work to some other company. At the very least we call "Shady!"

11) The newest and weirdest parking situation on our campus- need we say more?
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2019/09/free-parking-for-all-thanks-king-lane.html

12) An incompetent and gutless Human Resource department, a complete puppet of King Lane. Some HR complaints are not closed for years and people are not even notified about the HR complaint against them until a year or more has gone by. This HR incompetence is directly connected with the 6-7 lawsuits filed in the past 14 months, all of them having to do with issues that could have been resolved on campus but HR was either too incompetent, corrupt or submissive to King Lane to properly investigate and take corrective actions. We need an independent HR outside of TSU.

13) Too many questions raised about the flow of money from the annual TSU Maroon and Gray gala- where is all the money going? And what is going on with the money from the TSU Foundation?

14) Buddy cronyism, possible hiring of individuals who are really not qualified to be holding high-level, lucrative positions on our campus and rumors of tremendous issues with OIT for example.

 
Gray I think you're on to something. There is some real b/s going on with some of these regents. The Chronicle dropped another news story around noon time today. The last two stories are a bad look for the regents.


I can't read the Chronicle articles because I'm not paying for it. I hate them too because of their egregious TSU slander over the years. For every good TSU article there's two bad unfair ones
 
@tsugraytiger

Does all of this have any merit?

Will King Lane lose his kingdom?




- January 04, 2020

On Monday, November 18, 2019 the Board of Regents met for a closed door, unscheduled meeting. Sometimes unexpected things happen and unscheduled meetings need to be called for, so this wasn't really unusual for the BOR to meet without scheduling but what made it so unusual was that King Lane, nor Provost Harris nor Wendel Williams (the President's confidant) were invited or possibly not even allowed to be in the meeting which makes us give deep pause and wonder- is King Lane on his way to the exit lane?
Bear with us as we reminisce on the past 3.5 years of King Lane's tenure:
1) Tried to get the BOR to approve a $2.5 million mansion for his family and him to live in despite already receiving several thousand dollars a month in living stipend. King Lane brought up the mansion proposal on at least 3 separate BOR meetings unsuccessfully.
2) Spent $100,000 on Rockets courtside basketball tickets
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2019/04/confirmed-president-lane-buys-100k.html

3) Had to do 2 "do-overs" on several school dean searches, notably the law school, SOPA and Jones Business school. Either King Lane was dissatisfied with the final pickings or he picked some very wrong individuals and they either were under pressure to resign or outright terminated and we had to do the dean search all over again.
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-never-ending-story-of-never-ending.html
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-case-of-disappeared-dean.html
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2019/02/rumble-and-stumble-in-sopa-dean-seach.html
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2018/11/sopa-dean-searchun-deux.html
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2018/11/new-colabs-dean-search-committee.html

4) Rumored to have either lied repeatedly or obscured the truth regarding total enrollment at TSU to BOR. This affects our funding also from the DOE and Texas and harms the relationship between the president and the BOR which is critical for getting things done.
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2019/01/will-real-enrollment-numbers-please.html

5) Too many problems with the law school accreditation.
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-law-school-saga-continues.html
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2019/03/aba-accreditation-problems-at-our-law.html

6) Law school admissions scandal- https://abc13.com/education/tsu-law-school-tied-to-admissions-improprieties-sources/5705898/
7) Muzzled and threatened (through the Provost office) some of the faculty through vague insubordination terminology of "mass emails" when faculty were simply expressing their First Amendment right and also wanted to make sure other faculty knew about goings-on campus which in many cases the Lane regime appeared to try and hide. One faculty member appears to have been suspended indefinitely as we wrote a few months ago and may never come back to campus due to "mass emails" and “insubordination”.

https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-dangerous-new-weapon-used-by-king-lane.html
7) Suspicious and sudden changes in several high and mid-level administrators, some of whom appeared to have left TSU with a cloud of suspicion regarding possibly unethical and illegal activities. This includes at least one possible dean (our very first post) and possibly at least one more dean.
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-case-of-disappeared-dean.html

8) Brought in Koch Brothers money which has corrupted and destroyed the morale and fabric of too many universities and which has resulted in either lawsuits or severe disagreements among faculty and administrators at George Mason, Auburn and Florida State. There may even be a lawsuit at TSU involving the CJR. The Koch money which established the Center for Justice Research and has harmed the university's reputation irrevocably, especially with the recent Houston Chronicle articles and the 31 academics who have condemned the Center's decision to put forth spurious and biased research, possibly to advance a neo-conservative agenda which is certainly not friendly to academics and definitely not friendly to an HBCU.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/ne...-Harris-DA-s-office-overburdened-14302364.php

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/ne...se-concerns-about-report-finding-14539787.php

https://www.prosecutorreport.com/

https://www.prosecutorreport.com/note

https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-center-for-justice-research-stands.html

9) Manipulated and controlled the Faculty Senate and it's former President- Dr. Javus Cavil- until he was defeated by Professor Wu recently. Dr. Cavil was successfully able to block several key items the faculty senate wanted to be delivered to King Lane, either by not placing them on the agenda or he would drag the meetings on until the items would need to be tabled until the next meeting. Cavil also went with Lane on several expensive taxpayer pleasure junkets- for what meaningful purpose?
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2019/01/an-impotent-and-ineffective-faculty.html

10) Hired past cronies of his for work on the faculty salary inequity research study as we mentioned on our February 25, 2019 post. It also appears that the Precision Group then turned around and outsourced their work to some other company. At the very least we call "Shady!"

11) The newest and weirdest parking situation on our campus- need we say more?
https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2019/09/free-parking-for-all-thanks-king-lane.html

12) An incompetent and gutless Human Resource department, a complete puppet of King Lane. Some HR complaints are not closed for years and people are not even notified about the HR complaint against them until a year or more has gone by. This HR incompetence is directly connected with the 6-7 lawsuits filed in the past 14 months, all of them having to do with issues that could have been resolved on campus but HR was either too incompetent, corrupt or submissive to King Lane to properly investigate and take corrective actions. We need an independent HR outside of TSU.

13) Too many questions raised about the flow of money from the annual TSU Maroon and Gray gala- where is all the money going? And what is going on with the money from the TSU Foundation?

14) Buddy cronyism, possible hiring of individuals who are really not qualified to be holding high-level, lucrative positions on our campus and rumors of tremendous issues with OIT for example.


This isn't an official statement nor supported with anything so I won't acknowledge it
 
I can't read the Chronicle articles because I'm not paying for it. I hate them too because of their egregious TSU slander over the years. For every good TSU article there's two bad unfair ones

I don't pay for them either, but I can get them somehow. The Chronicle pulls the same mess all major daily papers do with HBCUs. All of them are quick to print the negative, slow or rarely the positive.
 
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