LSU's President Jenkins Resigns

TigerKid05 · Feb 13, 2006

patvoor said:

I can remember O'Keefe getting in hot water for missing a graduation sometime in the last year to attend a Board of Directors meeting for some company he gets paid to sit on quote]

He still is on the board at Dupont
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LSUGradin99 · Feb 14, 2006

OkieTiger said:

Wow. I hope he had a darned good excuse! That is just kinda a slap in the face to the University and students (IMO).
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Fulfilling duties for one of the three corporations that recently elected him to their board of directors, O’Keefe was out of town at a board meeting for Battelle, an Ohio-based technological research and development company.

With combined payments from the boards nearing $200,000, some question where O’Keefe’s priorities lie. But O’Keefe and University officials maintain that O’Keefe is only carrying out the duties of the redefined role of chancellor, and they say his involvement on private boards will increase the University’s prominence and competitiveness nationwide.

“Battelle runs national labs for energy and is developing exciting new technology every day,” O’Keefe said. “By sitting on boards like Battelle’s, we have a great opportunity to enhance our competitiveness for research grants.”

Battelle elected O’Keefe to its board in June.
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LSU's President Jenkins Resigns

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