Joe Kennedy Flap Example of What's Wrong w/NYS & SUNY

I don't know SUNY Canton President Joe Kennedy very well. In fact, my first few meetings left me with the impression that he was arrogant and aloof, like many stereotypical academics.
Well, my first impressions were wrong.
As I spent more time around Mr. Kennedy I found him to be intelligent, forthright, and personable, with a tendency to cut to the chase to point out bad policy and governmental/educational shortcomings.
That's probably what got him taken to the woodshed by the toady SUNY bureaucrats in Albany.
Now that it has become obvious these bureaucrats lied and obfuscated the truth about Mr. Kennedy's status, today they come forth with the bold announcement that he will be a lame duck president at SUNY Canton for one more year and then will be shuttled off to Albany to molder away at SUNY Central.
I guess all of this is reward for bringing Canton ATC out of the dark ages with better technology, spanking  new campus facilities, exchanges with other universities around the world, doubled student enrollment and a huge variety of new four-year programs.
In short, he was making his colleagues and SUNY bureaucrats look bad by making SUNY Canton stronger than nearby SUNY Potsdam or any number of other campuses in the state university system that used to be the best in the country and on the leading edge of academia.
Now SUNY is overrun with and strangled by politcal hacks, pseudo-academics and a bunch of so-called educational experts who are completely out of touch with the real world.
When we learned that Mr. Kennedy was being ridden out of Canton on a rail, the college council was up in arms and Assemblywoman Addie Russell was adamant that she would get to the bottom of the conspiracy. Today the Assemblywoman is full of praise for the Kennedy plan which will put the Canton campus under  the control of Dr. Fritz Schwaller, president of SUNY Potsdam. Russell now says this underhanded, cowardly action is an example of "working collaboratively to implement shared services between the two campuses over the next academic year, which will become a model for other SUNY collaborations."
Holy crap! If this is the model SUNY aspires to we might as well pack it all in right now!
Let's be honest: this was another example of Albany bureaucrats deciding what is best for the yokels in the North Country and elsewhere. Addie Russell knows it too, but apparently she also was taken on a little trip to the woodshed where she was set straight on the "Ways of the All Powerful New York State Bureaucracy."
I don't care what Gov. Cuomo and the political phonies in the state Legislature say, the bureaucrats are still running the state. Running it into the ground, as a matter of fact.