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Morgan says FOCUS a recipe for disaster
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Retired Tennessee Board of Regents chancellor John Morgan says he doesnt agree with Gov. Bill Haslams plan to weaken the Board of Regents and give more authority to individual universities.
A plan that will decentralize control of Tennessee major universities could be a path to destruction, according to recently retired Board of Regents chancellor John Morgan.The longtime chancellor retired abruptly after Gov. Bill Haslam introduced a plan known as FOCUS that will give power to individual universities instead of having the center of responsibility placed in the laps of the Board of Regents as has long been the case.“It is politics over policy,” Morgan explained to McMinnville Noon Rotary Club members on Thursday as he cast an uneasy eye on the future of the higher education. “The biggest problem with the FOCUS act is that authority and responsibility need to be in the same place.