If we are to believe the Herald's story today on the horse trading going on between the UT System and Texas Southmost College, UTB President Julieta Garcia was in the thick of it.
However, those inside the Ringgold Beltway know different.
In fact, inside sources close to the negotiations say Garcia had little, if anything, to do with the agreements reached between the two entities to buy, trade or lease real estate and facilities to teach community college and university students and house its faculty and administrators.And they say that it will only be a matter of time before the UT System mercifully puts her and UTPA President Robert Nelsen out to academic pasture. But, as becomes a genteel UT System, it will be done with the proper decorum, pomp and circumstance.
All that will end when the search is initiated for the new presidents, we're sure.
For now, however, she is coming across as the benevolent Auntie looking out for the students of both institutions making the appropriate noises and getting quoted in the friendly daily emanating sweetness like:
"Everyone pulls their own weight so n o one gets taken advantage of the other," and
"You develop trust and compassion for what they are going through and what it's like to start a community college from scratch...We had to get into each other's shoes a little."
Retch.
This is the same sweet woman who tried mightily to destroy the community college that had provided the first rung to opportunity to this community since 1926, the person who tried to strong-arm a majority of the TSC board to hand over the real estate, buildings, facilities, bank deposits, and any other marketable assets it had to her UT System bosses, who ran the UTB-TSC "partnership" like a fiefdom with rewards for her sycophants and personal and professional destruction to those she saw as a threat to her grand designs, and who still feels she is owed something for the 20 years where she reigned over a hybrid institution that racked up such a dismal academic track record that it could not even be ranked in some measures.
This is the lady (that's no lady, that's Julieta) who forced local residents to pay university-level tuition and fees to attend community college classes, who attained miserable graduation rates, who charged the highest fees in the entire state, even while using their taxing district to encumber the next generation with debt for her grandiose empire (remember the $640,000 mural?).How does that compare with TSC's move to reduce 2013 Fall rates for students (and their parents) by
$1,000 for full-time course load?
And then she says that she was the guardian angel who made sure students "did not feel the brunt of separation" and "We didn't want our students to lose?"
Now that the UT System has followed its own course and policies and left her as an irrelevant fixture south of Ringgold Street, perhaps someone should tell Mayor Tony Martinez that the jig is up and that instead of bending over backwards (and asking us to bend over) for the UT System, perhaps he could do something for TSC one of these days. It's not like he doesn't have enough empty downtown buildings in his Monopoly game that he bought with the taxpayers' money to "donate" to the UT System.
12 comments:
As usual, Juliet sat to the side and had her minions negotiate on her behalf. She acts like a national leader, sitting to the side and taking any glory she can, while deflecting any negative actions. Juliet was a loser here...not a victor. She eventually conceded to accept what she could....cut her loses. Now, TSC will be between TSC and UTB geographically....so does that make Tony Martinez a loser too???? Me thinks so. Now to see if Juliet will have a role in the new university.....or will she resign to save grace?
TSC diplomas are worthless, juan. STOP LYING!!!!
In the Herald article la Cabrona also stated that TSC was starting from scratch. Al contraire, it is UT-Whatever that is starting from nothing. TSC has been around for over 87 years. It is one of the oldest community colleges in the US. The UT-Whatever is now "merging" with a much larger and established University that is also over 80 years old, having begun as a community college. La Cabrona and her UT-Whatever are the odd ones out. UT-Pan America has almost 20,000 students. What will UT-Whatever have, maybe 5,000? La Cabrona is like the lonely coyote howling at the moon, solita y jodida.
So is UTB's unless you plan to be a teacher in the valley. I applied to the state dept. And was told my master's was not valid due to the lack of accreditation. Tried to go the military route for military Intel and was told the same. Now I persue other routes because I'm driven. Garcia had the opportunity took make this a tier 1 institute and failed. There was no limit for UTB, and set goals to low. it became a teacher factory and still failed at that also. UT,s feet should have been held to the fire a lot sooner if serious educational experience was the goal with UTB. A joint program only dragged UTB's potential and hut those seeking associate crt. If UT was few/y serious it would have dumpped TSC a long time ago but the free money was to good.
What mural? I've never seen a mural at Tsc!
Trey Garza your loyalty to Julieta is admirable. The escuelita you are talking about was and will be a force to be wrecking with. Before UT came to town TSC was a well established Junior college.
Time will tell. Just like the 20 years of the failed partnership told. That was no Partnership. That was an abuse to the citizens of the TSC dist.
You are funny to funny.
To 7:21
Master's in what field?
Did UTB tell you it was not an accredited degree?
Is it just that department that is not accredited?
This is important.
Terrible, terrible spelling errors!! OMG!! Please, stop! It is so becoming your BISD education! Que verguenza!!!
Reckoned with , my dear.
That is because it was never commissioned, but she tried. The artist was probably some "friend" that would have provided a kickback. The proposed cost was something like $625,000 or around there. Who do you think easy goingto pay for that ? The TSC taxing district, BITCH!
Telosiko!!!!
Well saw that green witch with the governador perry on tv last night i bet she is taking all this credit for this and that the joining up of utb abd utpa right? No pos wow, te aventas julieta, te sacaste la dagger, yea right.
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