Monday, June 08, 2009

Politics

Mary Easley Fired from NC State


What a day on the NC State campus. It looks like Mary Easley has lost her battle to keep her job despite controversy. Easley’s termination follows Chancellor Oblinger’s resignation this morning.

From the N&O

N.C. State University’s Board of Trustees has terminated the contract of Mary Easley.

The trustees said the duties of Easley’s job no longer exist and her departure from N.C. State would be in the best interest of the university. The trustees, along with UNC system president Erskine Bowles, met this afternoon.

photo from WRAL

Bookmark: del.icio.us Favicon Digg Favicon Google Favicon LinkedIn Favicon Reddit Favicon StumbleUpon Favicon

Read More: Politics,

Filed Under:

  • Baker06/08 03:25 PM

    Given the ball fumbling momentum, I fully expect she will get a giant check equal to a full payout of her contract. 

    She will wail on about how political it has become.  The school will say they had to do it. 

    Both will be happy and we will be screwed again to the tune of $500K.

  • arthurb306/08 03:37 PM

    Bowles will be next!!!

  • Lisa Jeffries06/08 05:25 PM

    Baker’s right. If she had any tact, she’d forfeit the remainder of her contract since it’s in the best interest of the public and the state, which she and her husband were to serve,... but I imagine she won’t.

  • Matt W06/08 07:01 PM

    Still not understanding why Mary (and presumably Mike) thought it was worth it to hold out for a buyout — are the Easleys’ in that kind of financial trouble? Really? Do they see absolutely no civic future whatsoever for either one of them, so they thought it was best to hold out for a couple of bucks now while they could?

  • BFSac06/08 07:25 PM

    The narcissism this woman has shown by not stepping down on her own has to be some sort of mental illness.  She’s like a slightly hairier, less funny Rod Blagojevich.

  • Scott O.06/08 08:00 PM

    BF Sac,

    Obstinacy isn’t a form of mental illness.

  • No06/09 06:44 AM

    Democrats involved in political scandal in the Old North State?  Perish the thought.

  • BFSac06/09 08:14 AM

    That’s good to know, Scott O.  I don’t feel bad about throwing dirt on her public grave now.

  • michelle06/09 08:30 AM

    Anyone losing their job or being fired is a hardship especially during our current economic crisis,however considering the state of NC’s budget shortfall this type of wasting of resources can not be tolerated..Goodness there are so many residents of this state being made to make sacrafices (State Employees)to fill this shortfall and it’s not fair. Families are hurting and in need and with the decrease in pay and increase in health care cost Ms. Easley arrogance in not stepping down is like a spit in the face.

  • gradstu06/09 09:10 AM

    NC state and many other universities are money wasting machines. After they furlowed all of the state employees they were going to start in on the graduate students, but these people are still rolling in it and they have x boxes and flatscreen tv’s at the library. Its all a show.

  • Les06/09 09:19 AM

    Folks keep saying Bowles is next, but we haven’t seen any evidence as to how he is directly connected to the hiring of Easley or out-of-bounds handling of Neilsen’s severance package, have we? Did i miss something? Or is the assumption that the “discussions at the highest levels” regarding M. Easley’s job included Bowles and Mike?

    Or perhaps the idea is that he failed at his job with regard to oversight of hiring practices?

    Bowles did decline to comment on the Neilsen situation on Sunday, but I got the impression that he was pretty upset at Oblinger over it. I mean he wasn’t at the BOT meeting on Sat, right, or no?

  • Matt W06/09 10:24 AM

    Les, when you are leading an organization and these types of things are happening underneath you, eventually the buck gets passed up the line.  Bowles may or may not have been directly involved, but that is really besides the point.  If he was involved he should be directly in front of the firing squad; if not, well…why not?

  • mcg06/10 09:22 AM

    Yeah, lets sell all of those x boxes and flat screen tvs.  Then we can pay off that 1 billion dollar deficit.  Good try Gradstu, but maybe you need to keep studying to understand that a few extras bought way before this current economic crisis are not the problem.

  • matt06/11 10:44 AM

    She’s an unholy cross between a pig and a hawk; the universe has no need for such an abomination.

Welcome to New Raleigh. We welcome your participation in the ongoing discussion. Before posting we ask that you read our Comment Policy and we invite you to register with our site. If you want to keep up with the news on our blog, subscribe to the RSS feed or get emailed every time we post.




Remember my information for next time I comment

Send me an email of follow-up comments?