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Community Comment
The News This Week from Dorchester
April 14, 2005
Motley Part of the Problem, Not Solution

To the Editor:

As a disabled veteran and recent graduate of UMass-Boston, I would hope that the Board of Regents, conduct a nationwide search for the finest chancellor they can obtain. UMass-Boston has one of the finest and qualified faculty in the nation and it deserves the best in a leadership.

J. Keith Motley may be one of the finest people on the planet, but what does his track record show? UMass-Boston has a highly bureaucratic administration, that reeks of the good old boy syndrome and Dr. Motley is a part of that syndrome. It is time to turn the page and start anew. Politics has no place in an institution of higher learning.

This is an opportunity to go for the best, go for it. UMass-Boston deserves it!

John Nelson

Weymouth

 

 

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