Editorial: CU regents put politics over education when selecting Mark Kennedy as president
December 31, 2019
Mark Kennedy faces heated audience questions during an open forum on the CU Boulder campus. April 26, 2019 (Hunter Allen/CU Independent file)
When University of Colorado regents announced their finalist for the position of CU system president, Mark Kennedy became a contentious name overnight.
The former Republican congressman’s extremely conservative record and his rocky reputation as the University of North Dakota president caused a media frenzy as skepticism clouded the regents’ search and selection process. How, many asked, did a candidate who bears an anti-civil rights voting record and who served less than three years at a non-research university, one that is less than a third the size of CU Boulder and a sixth the size of the entire CU system, become the president of an R1 institution that claims to value progressivism, inclusion and respect?
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