Actually, when he was hired, people were looking forward to change.

(Or at least they were in their public statements.)

Rikkakis was in over his head when it came to the implementation details. He may have had the support of the president (some speculate that he was doing exactly what the president wanted him to do), but he failed in getting faculty buy-in.

My hope is that the president has the good sense to hire someone with more departmental faculty experience than either he or Rikkakis have. (Neither have much classroom teaching experience.) Unless he does, I suspect that we'll be facing the same problems over again.

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Posted: 10/30/2017 at 7:32PM

Rikakas (VT Provost) resigned today... -- BB Hokie 10/30/2017 2:27PM

He's terrible at his job and gets rewarded with a $400k tenured position? -- HokieNoVA 10/30/2017 3:09PM

The Tenured system needs to change. ** -- HokieSignGuy 10/30/2017 3:48PM

Ironically he was trying to and the faculty senate complained ** -- hokeyhokie 10/30/2017 3:59PM

Well, that stinks. Sounds like trying to get congress to pass term limits. ** -- HokieSignGuy 10/30/2017 4:09PM

$400K ?? I'm just out of the loop when it comes to Academic -- HokieNLot11 10/30/2017 2:46PM

Go look at the state employee payroll data base -- hoosnowahokie 10/30/2017 3:11PM

Provost is the #2 at the university. UVA's makes $419k -- jmanatVT 10/30/2017 3:05PM

He was in executive leadership at one of the nation's largest and best -- CPRVHokie 10/30/2017 3:00PM

Is his new position worthy of $400k? -- HokieSignGuy 10/30/2017 2:43PM

Pure speculation: he was trying to change the way things were done and -- CPRVHokie 10/30/2017 3:02PM

Actually, when he was hired, people were looking forward to change. -- HokieEngineer 10/30/2017 7:32PM

Part of being a leader. Faculty doesn't handle change well? OK -- CPRVHokie 10/30/2017 8:15PM

Faculty REALLY hate change ** -- WestyHokie 10/30/2017 3:55PM

Well luckily there are plenty of other places to teach -- HokieNoVA 10/30/2017 4:46PM

Government employees who chose a career with very little risk? Seem like -- CPRVHokie 10/30/2017 4:15PM

In the article -- 48zip 10/30/2017 2:46PM

That pump was the last thread. ** -- YardBird 10/30/2017 2:32PM

Actually, when he was hired, people were looking forward to change.

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