SM: UI Pays $112K For … Inspiration?

You’re in big trouble if you have to bring in an outside consultant in order to find inspiration within your organization. If you’re spending more than $112,000 for that consultant during the middle of the most significant budget crisis in your institution’s history, inspiration might be the least of your concerns. Instead, it might be time to give yourself a pinch and reconnect yourself with the realities faced by the work-a-day people who keep the place running. Administrators at the University of Idaho need to do just that after reports this week that consultant Magaly Rodriguez was brought in at a cost of $12,500 a month to serve as the UI’s “Chief Inspiration Officer”/ Steve McClure , Moscow-Pullman Daily News. More here . And: Story here .

Question: Anyone out there willing to defend this nonsense?