The admin at USC has stated that all you can do is build and hang a sign out to see who comes. This is quite a gamble with our tax money. Perhaps a better approach is doing your homework first.
The New Carolina/Innovista crowd appears to be so inwardly focused on SC that they have failed to account for competition from other states. They do not have an answer for how the Innovista would “win” versus RTP, etc. They have stated that researchers would flock to this new campus because it is urban and RTP is in the suburbs, but offer no data to show that researchers have any interest in moving to SC without increasing their pay to exurbanite levels that no other institution would remotely pay. Is the Innovista really much nicer and more “urban” than Boston, SF, NYC, etc?

The other argument from this crowd is that USC will be spinning off so many new innovations from its renewed research focus that it will require multiple facilities (a campus?) in order to develop and commercialize them. Sounds good right, except that USC has not spun off any substantial new products except for empty buildings and parking garages. A more prudent approach would be to first see if these newly hired, overpaid professors actually invent anything that the market wants before dropping $100M+ on an empty campus.

Innovista is now so far off course that they are basically attempting to rent this “valuable space” to tenants that plan to use the buildings as mere office space.

How can Bobby Harrell say with a straight face he is a fiscal conservative when he supports these type of wasteful government programs? When he speaks in public, he should be booed off the stage and ridiculed for his failed socialist policies.

Forbes is right about one thing — the institutions don’t give a damn about serving South Carolina’s young people. Oh, the stories we could tell….

But as long as the privileged get their football tickets that’s all that seems to matter.

Change has been needed in Carolina’s Administration for many many decades. Term and age limits are needed for trustees. Independent oversight and audiiting are needed as well. The current dinosaurs on the BOT all must go.

The State Attorney General needs to conduct an investigation into criminal negligence by the Board of Trustees, Sorensen and Pesticides and other administrators at Carolina.

As a Carolina grad I am sick and tired of the incompetence that continues to retard Carolina as a university and its reputation. Jackasses like these have been the reason Carolina’s perception among universities is so poor. The quicker these tools are removed and the university administered and run by competent people the faster that perception will change.