Selection process worthy of TV show

To the editor:

Aside from wondering why the University of Iowa selection process that picked a businessman to serve over its halls of ivy was not conducted as an episode on TV's Shark Tank, a few questions occur:

If higher education itself cannot produce any leaders worthy of presiding over a university, why would anyone want to preside?

Further, what qualifications don't you need to be qualified (or unqualified) to get involved in a system that is remiss in qualifying people?

Youth certainly ought to avoid running up a huge debt by getting engaged in anything that cannot produce anyone that is competent to get themselves greatly involved in it.

It does appear that the Renaissance foundation of higher education and the following Age of Reason from which more institutions of education sprung has come to be a bust.

Sorry about the foregoing, but none of this makes much sense unless education is going to periodically receive the kind of bailouts that have long kept big business back up and growing under the leadership of CEOs who, when it goes bankrupt belly-up, golden parachute out as the walls come tumbling down. Thus well-feathered, down they come to find a new perch upon which to pick through fresh remains.

Sam Osborne

West Branch