The Fargo Forum this AM reports Joe spent $22K+ to attend the Obama inauguration!! Are you kidding me? This trip included a charter flight and covered the cost of his wife AND his children.
Joe has abused his power at an unbelievable level at NDSU since he threatened to leave a couple years back and was "coaxed" to stay?! The President's housing mess, the fact that NDSU is running in the red during his reign and now this.
Every AM I have coffee and run into a high profile NDSU booster/contributor. Today this guy even said Joe must go! He said if Joe doesn't resign it will create a firestorm that NDSU will have a hard time putting out.
And where is the SBoHE? IF they have any spine at all they should be addressing this/these issues with Joe by noon!!
What a slap in the face to the NDSU students, who's tuition is on the rise year after year, to the underpaid (generally speaking) faculty of NDSU, and to the tax paying residents of ND, all of whom have watched and read in disbelief the rogue actions of Joe Chapman in recent years.
I know some will say well look at what he has done for NDSU. It was a foundation's money, not the universities. Does that really then get Joe off the hook?
Joe thinks so (per the Forum)..."What I've accomplished over the past 10 years speaks pretty well to what we've done (for this institution)." You think someone thinks a little too much of himself!!!
BTW...Kelly's same trip cost $2176 and his wife paid for her own airfare.