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Chris Webber joining Wake faculty

Webber, like most other professors of practice across the university, will not be a member of the graduate faculty. He will team-teach a course in an area that Documentary Film has identified as a promising one for growth/expansion. He does not have a contract beyond an initial appointment to teach a course next fall. Webber is essentially volunteering his time to help us enlist notable speakers for the course. He also is arranging significant internship opportunities for our students.
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Just code for: "He's only here for one year so he can spend significant quality time with prized basketball recruits whose rapid development is crucial for their next significant learning opportunity at a higher level of expertise, ahem, NBA!!"

Come on down Mr. Giles, your coaching / tutoring / mentoring staff is in place and awaits your arrival! ;)
 
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Webber’s appointment also advances a goal that I have long articulated and that I know we all share: increasing the diversity of our graduate student body. Our enrollment of new underrepresented minority graduate students has increased five-fold since 2007, but we still have considerable room to improve.
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Hopefully, just code for: "We need a major for fifth year athletic transfers."

Otherwise it sounds like: "Minorities aren't interested in things other than sports."
 
Webber's been going around the country on sports talk shows and mentioning Wake Forest.

Do I have a link for you? Nope, just something I heard on sports talk radio.
 
smallbigtall said:
A statement of clarification was released last night to the graduate faculty:
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If Jones is paid by the word, he is making a fortune. Seriously, you can't make this stuff up. A misfire/misrepresentation like his initial announcement would justify a firing in most professions. Clearly he was attempting to boast about something that was rather insignificant - possibly embarrassing . In fact Webber was a partial volunteer and was hired on a temporary basis to team-teach a course that was only a small part of a larger established program. And, oh, by the way, would be great for athletic minority grad students, especially transfers. No matter how explained, it reeks.
 
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qcdeac said:
No kidding. The Dean's letter and prior press release is more embarrassing than Webber's appointment IMO.
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Nothing worse than an ACC fanbase who makes all of these apologies for academic-athletic irregularities at their school...
 
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