Rumble and Stumble in the SOPA Dean seach committee?

On Tuesday, January 5, 2019 Provost Harris met with the SOPA faculty to answer questions and provide answers to critical and pertinent questions that were germane to the future of SOPA leadership.  Provost Harris did his best to downplay and deflect questions that most of the SOPA faculty as well as the former SOPA committee asked him.  Questions were raised as to why was the previous committee disbanded and moreover what exactly did the previous committee do wrong for the search process to be so broken according to the Provost? 
Several faculty also asked Provost to condemn and disavow the nasty and unprovoked email sent by Dr. Bullard (former dean of SOPA) who called most of his own colleagues and SOPA faculty as “deadwood” and that these faculty were “addicted to overloads” (extra classes payment).  The Provost refused to do this and kept insisting that the faculty needed to move on and forget the past.  Easier said than done however.  Dr. Bullard was present at the meeting and appeared to snicker and giggle at the memory of his now infamous email that was made public through an Open Records request and sent to Provost Harris in January 2018 when he first arrived at TSU’s campus. 

The email was particularly hurtful to several faculty members who were vocal at the meeting, most notably 2 AJ professors who were quite upset about the implication that they were “deadwood”.  One of the professors has recently published a book and the other is the current Forensics Lab Director who has spent most of her career in public service working on grants and has a stellar reputation with all her students as an approachable, effective and likable teacher.  

We at Transparency State condemn Dr. Bullard for this type of petty and bad behavior towards his own colleagues.   We are also deeply and shamefully disappointed in the attitude of Provost Harris, whom as our defacto leader (since King Lane is out shopping for a new palace) should be held to a higher standard and should openly condemn Dr. Bullard for such an unnecessary and juvenile email.  

The real question about the so-called "failed dean search" was never addressed- why was Dr. Adams rejected by King Lane when former Provost Wilson recommended him as the best candidate for permanent dean?  Are the rumors really true that King Lane is jealous of Dr. Adams success as Director of the EMPA program which has been wildly and lucratively successful for SOPA as well as for all of TSU?  After all, SOPA appears to be the ONLY school which is not bleeding red and Dr. Adams has to be granted major street cred for his leadership and management of the EMPA program.  Perhaps this is also why King Lane refuses to allow the proposed DPA program to go forward? 

After all, if we cannot hold our leaders accountable to the awful behavior of our own colleagues, who can?