{"id":9567,"date":"2011-12-09T08:51:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T14:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=9567"},"modified":"2011-12-09T09:39:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T15:39:15","slug":"ut-law-dean-resigns-over-slush-fund-payouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=9567","title":{"rendered":"UT Law Dean Resigns Over Slush Fund Payouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keep in mind that’s not what the headline says<\/a>, which is a more neutral “UT law dean forced to step down.” But what else do you call “a $500,000 forgivable loan” to UT Dean Larry Sager “at a time when deans, vice presidents and other top university officials were under a salary freeze”? When you give people money they don’t have to pay back, that’s not a loan, that’s a gift. (I also wonder whether Dean Sager declared this money on his taxes. Or did he not have to, because it was a “loan”?) And slush fund<\/em> seems to be the proper term for a fund from which sums can be doled out without administrative accountability.<\/p>\n

Or, to put it another way: If it were revealed that University of Texas head football coach Mack Brown had such a fund, to receive funds from or to dole out at his discretion, not only would we be calling it a slush fund, he would be fired<\/i>, National Championship notwithstanding. Should the UT Law School be held to a lesser standard than the UT Athletics Department?<\/p>\n

No wonder the Texas Public Policy Foundation continues to advocate for lower administrative costs in higher education<\/a>, among many other needed reforms. This most recent incident shows such reform is still badly needed.<\/p>\n

(Hat tip: Tax Prof Blog<\/a> via Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keep in mind that’s not what the headline says, which is a more neutral “UT law dean forced to step down.” But what else do you call “a $500,000 forgivable loan” to UT Dean Larry Sager “at a time when deans, vice presidents and other top university officials were under a salary freeze”? When you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":21,"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,12],"tags":[2879,414,2861,1411,527],"class_list":["post-9567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-texas","tag-budget","tag-education","tag-texas","tag-texas-public-policy-foundation","tag-university-of-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9567"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9578,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions\/9578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}