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Monday, October 20, 2014

Sticking to Business?

Every once in awhile something happens that suggests that UC prez Napolitano has her eye on a future career beyond her present position.  One of those things is comments by the UC prez on national issues that don't have much relation to UC or even higher ed:

Janet Napolitano on Saturday lambasted Congress for politicizing concerns about the Ebola virus, and drew parallels to the response to 2009's H1N1 flu pandemic, which she oversaw as Homeland Security Secretary. Napolitano criticized a recent Congressional hearing on Ebola featuring Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “In the middle of a crisis, pulling Dr. Frieden away from the work he needs to do so Congress members could all make their little press statements -- it was shameful,” Napolitano, now president of the University of California, said to The WorldPost at a Pacific Council on International Policy conference...

Full story at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/19/congress-ebola-napolitano_n_5986754.html

Maybe it would be better just to let the future - whatever it will be - take care of itself:

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