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Chancellor Jones’ Contract Not Extended over Policy Violations
Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning board of trustees Monday revealed the reason for the 9-2 vote last week not to extend Chancellor Dan Jones’ contract: policy violations regarding spending and contract procurement at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
At the 2:41 mark in the above video, board vice president and Ole Miss alum Alan Perry goes into further detail about why the contract was not renewed for the first time since the vote Thursday.
The Clarion-Ledger caught up with Perry after the meeting Monday.
“We just realized people didn’t know exactly why we had done what we had done, and we decided it needed to be clarified and I tried to clarify it as well as I could. … We had a really good thing going on in Oxford, the campus is doing well, first reaction is why would anybody fire Dr. Jones when Oxford is doing so well? Perhaps we should have said more, but we generally don’t like to talk about personnel matters for the protection of the person involved.”
According to the Clarion-Ledger, who reviewed the audit, “The audit Perry referenced lists several violations: UMMC not getting Board approval for contracts in excess of $250,000, not getting approval for leases in excess of $100,000 and the medical center not being able to produce documents related to contracts the Board and auditors questioned. The audit singled out a gamma knife – a piece of sophisticated medical equipment used to operate on tumors – UMMC bought but had never installed.”
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Louis P. Foley
March 24, 2015 at 8:43 am
Dan Jones has to go. He’s not a king.
Yosemite Rebel
March 24, 2015 at 11:44 am
Let me say this – when you have children who have graduated and been hooded with their PhD in their chosen fields, when employees are injured at work, returned to work by the WC company, not sent thru the normal channel that any returning employee should be according to HR policy, works without health insurance coverage for two years, child applies for professorship at Ole Miss and is not even interviewed although that child has taught as an instructor in their field for two years at Ole Miss, Dan Jones has no reason to expect the support of any person or family member of these children. He did not do the job he was expected to, so he is gone. Thankfully, our children are gone from Ole Miss and Oxford as well.
Yosemite Rebel
March 24, 2015 at 11:47 am
By the way – our children finished at Ole Miss.
Ehf
March 24, 2015 at 2:19 pm
Ed meek trying to spin this the way he wants folks to see it.