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Kristina Johnson (OSU President)

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Thump said:
B.S.
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Maybe, but it could be a bit of both. She could have been toxic to her staff AND run afoul of some trustees for other reasons.

She's vague on "politics" though. Is it board politics (i.e. the Wexners demanding control over the medical center) or is it state politics (i.e. the legislature and DeWine seeing political points in going full DeSantis on higher education with Ohio State being the big shiny "elitist" target). If there was a political aspect to it, I certainly hope it's the former rather than the latter because the last thing Ohio State needs after everything it's accomplished the last 40 years is another Jim Rhodes to fuck things up.
 
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Did 28 years in Cali K-12 education as CBO. Superintendents lose their jobs for several reasons, and it's not because they selected a wrong textbook. Primary reason is because the Board 'fell out of love' with them. First year is a honeymoon, second year is when Supt implements the changes (and yes, is discussed with Board of Trustees and approved), and the third year is spent looking for another gig after year two (we didn't want you to implement that!). tOSU is too big to fail, but can readily envision that big donors (Wexner comes to mind), want more operational control - and remember, the Trustees are outside of operational command. Have had Trustees start giving direction to my directors, say Transportation. Their job is not to get down in the trenches, but to provide overall direction. Making suggestions in Cabinet is fine, but it puts the Superintendent in a box. Another thought is that her staff had outside connections to the Board, and she found privileged info coming back to her from these Board members. Doubt whether 'harsh staff treatment' was root cause of her resignation, unless it was harassment - which in this day and age can be something as easy as a harsh word or look. Oh well, regardless of what it was, wish her well, and this does NOT give tOSU a good look for finding a replacement. Had a Supt come up to me the day after a Board meeting, and say, "I had a 4-1 majority yesterday, and today I've got a 2-3, and all I did was go to sleep". It's always politics, whether back door or not.
 
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Bestbuck36 said:
Chicago Med happening in real time? Not great Bob
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Interesting story about Wexner's kid at Columbus Academy that a friend who had kids there told me. For 100+ years CA chose their valedictorian on the simple basis of class rank and grades. Well, Prince Harry hits his senior year and they miraculously decide to change the selection to a more "holistic" process, and who should be selected by this new holistic criteria but the young prince. Now, Wexner's kid was getting into Harvard no matter what his grades were, but Les still felt the need to muscle aside some poor kid who had worked his ass off so that his spoiled little brat could take an honor that he hadn't earned.

Now, Wexner has certainly done a lot for the university (though it's always in a way that helps the city just as much), but don't think for a minute that he's a good guy.
 
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What I find interesting in all of this is how much attention Wexner is getting and how little of the managerial issues / treatment of personnel is not.

Were it not for posters on this board with close-ish knowledge of the situation, I’m not sure that I’d even know about that angle.

I’m not going to pretend to know up from down on any of this… just an observation.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Interesting story about Wexner's kid at Columbus Academy that a friend who had kids there told me. For 100+ years CA chose their valedictorian on the simple basis of class rank and grades. Well, Prince Harry hits his senior year and they miraculously decide to change the selection to a more "holistic" process, and who should be selected by this new holistic criteria but the young prince. Now, Wexner's kid was getting into Harvard no matter what his grades were, but Les still felt the need to muscle aside some poor kid who had worked his ass off so that his spoiled little brat could take an honor that he hadn't earned.

Now, Wexner has certainly done a lot for the university (though it's always in a way that helps the city just as much), but don't think for a minute that he's a good guy.
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Nobody with that much money got it by being a good guy.
 
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