Here is your problem, your team is underperforming, all the line employees have guaranteed contracts, you have managers you can fire, and you are the owner, so what can you do? In major league baseball they fire the manager. Why fire the manager? Because sometimes it works very well and if you don't you know you will almost certainly fail. We also know that in MLB and other pro sports that managers/head coaches only have a certain amount of time before the player tune them out and they must be replaced. Granted there are exceptions (Bobby Cox in ATL), but there aren't many.
The pro sports problem is exactly the problem at chairmen have at SIU. If you have been chair for over 5 years, with very few exceptions you should be replaced.
Fire the chairmen, it is the best and easiest way to fix performance problems at SIU. Granted you would need real leadership from the Deans and other administrators that hasn't been there for years, but maybe Poshard will start to install that? When the new chairmen have been in place for 5 years, fire them too. Nothing person, it is the way the system needs to work given the other contraints.
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Could you name me one business that uses the model you're proposing, aside from those thathave people work under contract? Heck, we don't even have term limits for politicians. Even in baseball, managers are fired when they don't produce, not at some arbitrary point. Now, if you got the chairs to sign a 5 year contract that would be a different thing. They certainly could stand a yearly performance evaluation, though.
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