PDF-[EPUB] - Please Delete: How Leadership Hubris Ignited a Scandal and Tarnished a University

IVE MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKESo confessed Joy Sharp a longtime budget director for the University of Arkansas Trembling and unsteady she informed her boss that she had lost control of their divisions financesIt was an understatement University leaders would soon discover that Sharp had routinely spent millions of dollars beyond what was available shifting money from one account to another in what the universitys treasurer described as deliberate efforts to disguise her divisions true financial condition In a private email University Chancellor G David Gearhart bemoaned that Sharps actions had created a colossal fiscal crisis It was a hard admission ten years earlier Gearhart himself had promoted Sharp his former aide to the budget management positionMost leaders would have responded to the disclosure by immediately commissioning a thorough audit and review of Sharps activity After all it was possible that fraud occurred and that others were complicit If nothing else an audit would demonstrate the universitys commitment to Transparency and Accountability for the People of Arkansas which happened to be the title of the schools strategic planBut instead Gearhart and other university officials quietly engaged in a disturbing series of panicfueled leadership decisions The result was a slowburning scandal one that involved attempts to deceive investigators hide and destroy records and silence witnesses Those actions soon proved more costly to the universitys reputation and credibility than the unchecked spending that created the deficitPLEASE DELETE provides a case study of how a large institution its powerful and overconfident leaders and their wellplaced allies responded to a crisis and in the process inflamed it PLEASE DELETE is a cautionary tale one that reveals the damage distrust and victimization that often result when public officials try to conceal their transgressions. 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