Talk:B. Joseph White

message: I added the B. Joseph White image. I found it on the Argonne National Laboratory website. I belive this is in the public domain. Also, feel free to edit the text in the image box. I'm not sure if the text I added is appropriate.H.al-shawaf (talk) 21:37, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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message: Members of the University of Illinois Office for University Relations have made edits that would benefit from outside review. -- Upholder (talk) 06:07, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with your edits. Perhaps White has too much unflattering press on this page, but it deserves to be on the page regardless of personal views. I am open to seeing more information on his tenure at Illinois and Michigan (both as President and as Dean) that may provide a more holistic view. If the other editor would like to do this, we can monitor his or her edits for NPOV.H.al-shawaf (talk) 14:31, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur as well. I do not believe the Relations Office has authority to supress sourced information. If it has a complaint or wishes to engage in dialogue, it should post it here. As for the unflattering press, I can only suggest to White that he come clean on these issues. But sending goons to make edits not in good faith is not the answer, and does nothing to enhance his reputation. HoundofBaskersville (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 00:28, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for Comment 

message: I think there's a role for the OUR on wikipedia as long as your conflicts are appropriately disclosed. Your edits on Illinois articles would require 3rd party review. Also, I wouldn't mind help finding U of I related sources and media.H.al-shawaf (talk) 17:47, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
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message: I was trying to correct some things in the image box and somehow made the mug shot disappear. How do I put mug back in? Uoiour Uoiour (talk) 21:11, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The image is the full name, changing it to B. pointed it at a non-existent image. I reverted that part of the change. -- Upholder (talk) 21:30, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox 

message: What's the "B" stand for? Usually an article will tell us the full name in the first sentence, even if the article title does not.
::Bernard, however, he goes by "Joe".H.al-shawaf (talk) 18:23, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thinking that through, there are probably a few ways we can improve the article by finding a source that cites his first name, creating redirects, and editing disambiguation pages.H.al-shawaf (talk) 15:09, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Initial question 

message: I posted this on the Noticeboard for Biographies of Living Persons, but I think it is important that I post here as well. White's biography is very heavy on issues pertaining to the University of Illinois rather than being strictly biographical and encyclopedic in nature. Given that White is no longer the president of the University of Illinois and that he has been named President Emeritus by the board as of Friday, January 21st, 2010, I believe that the page needs some revision. The reason I'm proposing the revisions here rather than just making them on the bio page is because I think that we need to get rid of certain material on the page to make it more encyclopedic and in-line with other past university president's pages. Some of the content of this page that I propose removing would be more appropriate on the University of Illinois page, if authors of the material would like to put it there. Below is my proposed revision to White's bio. Please let me know if you have any disagreement with my changing the bio to the following. If not, I'll make the changes on February 1st.
Bernard Joseph White (born 1947 in Detroit, Michigan) is President Emeritus of the University of Illinois and James F. Towey Professor of Business and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He focuses on governance, leadership and management. He is the author of The Nature of Leadership.New York: Amacom, 2007
White was born in Detroit in 1947 and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Education
White graduated magna cum laude from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1969. He earned an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and a doctorate in business administration from the University of Michigan.
Career
Following graduation in 1975, White remained at Michigan as a professor of organizational behavior and industrial relations. He spent six years (1981–1987) at Cummins Inc. in Columbus, Indiana, first as vice president for management development and then as vice president for personnel and public affairs.
He returned to academia and served for a decade (1991-2001) as dean of the University of Michigan's Stephen M. Ross School of Business. He served as interim president of the University of Michigan in 2002.
White was named 16th president of the University of Illinois in November 2004, succeeding retiring president James J. Stukel, and took office on February 1, 2005.
White announced on September 23, 2009 his voluntary resignation as president, effective December 31, 2009.“U of Illinois President Resigns in Wake of Admissions Scandal,” Chronicle of Higher Education, September 23, 2009 His resignation followed an admissions controversy at the University’s Urbana-Champaign campus that resulted in most members of the university’s board of trustees resigning and new members being appointed by Governor Pat Quinn. In a letter to the board chairman, White said he took the action to enable the newly constituted board to select university leadership going forward. He noted that the effective date meant he would forgo a retention bonus as well as the remaining 18 months of a contract extended by unanimous vote of the trustees on November 13, 2008News Release, University of Illinois, September 23, 2009, “B. Joseph White resigns as president of the University of Illinois”. On January 21, 2010, the board of trustees appointed White president emeritus of the University of Illinois.'Board Meets on Chicago Campus. Daily Illini, January 21, 2010.
White’s term as president had mixed results. The $2.25 billion Brilliant Futures fund raising campaign, launched July 1, 2003, achieved 76% of its goal by August 31, 2009 with 72% of the campaign period elapsed.News Release, University of Illinois Foundation, October 3, 2009, “ University of Illinois Brilliant Futures Campaign passes 76% mark on way to $2.25 billion goal” The Global Campus Partnership, an initiative to make University of Illinois programs and degrees available online to qualified students, was terminated in 2009 due to an inadequate number of programs and students.“What Doomed Global Campus?” Inside Higher Ed, September 3, 2009
--Akilib (talk) 19:39, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revision of B. Joseph White's Bio 

message: I replaced "was" in the first sentence with "is" since this is a title and a job that B.J. White currently holds. Emeritus means honorably discharged and is a title conferred by the board upon White's resignation as President. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Akilib (talk • contribs) 19:09, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
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