Teachers, students have other options

To the editor:

As a taxpayer stockholder in the three university teaching companies in Iowa I am fatigued with the continuous whining and attitude of some teacher-employees and student-customers.

The chief executive officer of the state appointed a board of directors (Regents) to oversee the universities that includes choosing a president. Sometime in the past it appears someone acquiesced that the teacher employees and student customers have a right to 'shared governance” and a legitimate say in who is going to run the company.

In any organization with a cost of doing business it is not fiscally wise to allow the self-serving foxes to have 'shared governance” of the hen house. Hiring a person in academia to be president is like hiring a chief fox to oversee the underling foxes. If teachers and students are unhappy with employer/service provider decisions they have the option to move on.

Steve Strasburger

Cedar Rapids