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The University of Florida chose W. Kent Fuchs as its new president in 2014 only five days after he formally applied, but talks with individual members of the search team had started earlier.Weeks before his name publicly surfaced as an applicant for the president’s job, W. Kent Fuchs attended multiple private meetings with members of the University of Florida’s presidential search committee, according to newly released university records.

The move is not just an unacceptable assault on academic freedom; it is also an attempt to redefine professors as mandated proponents of the political views of their state governments. Politicians and political donors are literally running the University of Florida — not academic administrators who understand the sacred principles of academic freedom and free inquiry. [Image Omitted] In a public-relations scramble over the weekend, the university put out a statement that tried to suggest it still supports academic freedom, arguing that the three professors were free to say anything, but were not permitted to receive compensation for it.

Sanoff profiles W. Kent Fuchs, dean of the College of Engineering at Cornell University. Fuchs reveals that he had studied ministry but along the way realized that teaching, not preaching, was his true calling. He took his doctorate in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois. He believes that engineering can and should be used to dramatically improve the quality of life worldwide.

W. Kent Barnds is vice president for enrollment, communication, and planning at Augustana College, in Illinois. He's been there 10 years but has worked in higher education since he graduated from college, in the early 1990s. A lot has changed in those two-plus decades, and Mr. Barnds's job has expanded remarkably. Like other administrators and faculty and staff members on campuses around the country, he is learning to live in a world of tighter budgets, swelling regulations, and ever more assessment and competition.

In Piedmont Triad Airport Authority v. Urbine, The Supreme Court of North Carolina ruled that the taking of private property for airport expansion was for public use, although the expansion benefited a private air transport company. The court concluded that the Authority's master plan was for a public use and did not violate the North Carolina constitution.

The management and engineering talent led by [Bill Steinike], who holds an engineering degree from the Milwaukee School of Engineering and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, are what first attracted Lakeview to L.S. Research, said W. Kent Velde, managing partner. In the first six months of 2006, the wireless industry added about 63,000 wireless subscribers a day, and there are 229 million wireless subscribers in the U.S., all using wireless-enabled devices, according to the CTIA, the trade organization for the wireless telecommunications industry. Along with its design services, L.S. Research sells RF, or radio frequency, modules that customers can buy to plug in to products to make them wireless. But Steinike says he wants to add more intellectual property to the 20 patents the company already holds to help customers use the latest wireless technology innovations.