text: Johnsen has included faculty on some teams, but they've been hand-picked and not necessarily faculty who know much about the programs that they are evaluating. At least one team of the three included one faculty member. Faculty don't control the purse strings, but we are the ones who design the programs, teach and mentor the students, and know how best to educate Alaskans. When someone who knows little about the programs is making decisions in a vacuum (since faculty aren't included and the administration is doing NO cost benefit analyses on ANY of the options), it doesn't create confidence in anyone. Except, of course, the Board of Regents who hired him. The problem with the university starts at the top, the BOR. Most of the regents have little in the way of college education themselves, are business people, and want to run the university as a for-profit institution. They've allowed the university to become way top heavy. What are the plans to cut that? Who will be on that team?