{"id":4792,"date":"2008-11-27T16:45:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T00:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/11\/tennessee-takes-first-annual-turkey-at-the-top-award\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T07:52:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T15:52:30","slug":"tennessee-takes-first-annual-turkey-at-the-top-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/11\/tennessee-takes-first-annual-turkey-at-the-top-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Takes First Annual &#8216;Turkey at the Top&#8217; Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HowTheUniversityWorks.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/howtheuniversityworks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/169\">Tennessee Takes First Annual &#8216;Turkey at the Top&#8217; Award<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turkey at the top is always intensely competitive. This year\u2019s contenders included first runner-up Robert Felner, the U of Louisville dean indicted for conspiracy to commit fraud, money laundering, and tax evasion in what the feds allege are repeated acts of embezzlement of grant monies amounting to over $2 million. Not content with these escapades, Felner racked up 31 grievances and complaints in his 5 years at the \u201cU of L\u201d but was consistently backed against the faculty by upper administration, especially Provost Shirley Willihnganz and President James Ramsey, who spent extravagantly on lawyers and consultants to prop up his administration despite what numerous accounts (including this one and others that I\u2019ve privately confirmed) termed an \u201conslaught\u201d of complaints from faculty, staff and students alleging \u201cunsavory behavior, ranging from sexual harassment to workplace intimidation.\u201d This pair continued the authoritarian regime of wall-to-wall administrative solidarity and secrecy established by their high-living predecessors, former provost Carol Garrison and former president John Shumaker\u2014later found sharing lavish hotel rooms and limousines at public expense, while jetting to trysts in the University of Tennessee\u2019s private plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HowTheUniversityWorks.com: Tennessee Takes First Annual &#8216;Turkey at the Top&#8217; Award Turkey at the top is always intensely competitive. This year\u2019s contenders included first runner-up Robert Felner, the U of Louisville dean indicted for conspiracy to commit fraud, money laundering, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/11\/tennessee-takes-first-annual-turkey-at-the-top-award\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287],"tags":[2556],"class_list":["post-4792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration","tag-robert-felner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5752,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions\/5752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}