On March 12th, as prominently reported (3/15) in the Tucson Left’s dominant aircover newsrag, a.k.a. the Arizona RedStar, the University of Arizona’s new Prez, Dr. Suresh Garimella, refused to sign-off on their pampered faculty’s standard surrender documents. I’m sarcastically referring to Arizona’s 1992 Statute, ARS§15-1601B, commonly referred to as the “faculty shared governance doctrine”.
I say good on Dr. G
That deceitful 1992 bill was foolishly passed, in a period also coinciding with the end of the Cold War, AND the disastrous Tucson Mayoral ascendancy of a UA Professor of Political Science, Tamas Jan Volgy, a Hungarian-born ‘fellow-traveler’, and weirdo ideological godfather for today’s most amoral, anti-capitalist, crypto-Marxist big city government, this side of Portland & Berkeley.
The bill’s unintended effects since 1992 have also been to openly interject personnel (state employees) from Arizona’s largest, single-point budget item, (i.e. UA), into a host of nonacademic, noncurricular local government affairs of the Tucson Metro (pop. 1.2 million). Since 2019, I’ve detailed some of the more egregious UA examples, as well as their most notoriously obscene failures, especially on three critical items well within their purview.
You can read for yourself those 3 items, in this letter below I recently sent Dr. Garimella on his decision not to sign-off on ‘shared governance’. Copies were also sent to ABOR (AZ. Board of Regents), and relevant state legislators.
March 23, 2026
Dr. Suresh Garimella, President
The University of Arizona
Old Main Room 200
Tucson, ArizonaRE: Kudos; Your Refusal to Sign “Surrender Documents” (Shared Governance Doctrine), a.k.a. ARS§15-1601B
Dear Dr. Garimella,
Hopefully at some point and with ABOR’s newly found courage, the Arizona Legislature will soon be able to repeal this awful piece of legislation from 1992. And do so, free from the veto threat of a Hard-Left governor.
In the meanwhile, I see the sinecured Tucson Left has opened up their air offensive on your actions with the standard media assault in their rag-o-record, the appropriately nicknamed Arizona Daily [Red] Star. Would you believe me if I told you that Pueblo Pravda is thought by many in the business community here to be 50% directly responsible for Tucson’s awful economic, social, & technological retardation since the Cold War ended (1991)?
It’s a fact; and hopefully one that new RedStar owner, David Hoffmann, will soon consider.
Also this sense (along with that newspaper), of 3 major failures UA has, or is currently culpable of:
- Failure as AZ’s Land-Grant University to devise & execute a plan to help this arid state get more water their lazy “Conservation-Bureaucracy-Scarcity” model; vis-à-vis a plan with Mexico’s Sonora (also suffering), using newly emerging energy & filtration technologies, for Baja desalination.
- Failure to utilize UA’s engineering & hard sciences capabilities to attract new global business and industries to Tucson (as ASU has done), prepare for the coming US Space Force national lab competition, and exploit the emerging SE AZ-Sonora Landbridge Corridor to the Pacific Rim, with all its implications.
Failure to fully appreciate, plan for, and execute on what AI technologies can do, not for some specious UA curriculum development, but for the blunt destruction of 80% or more of UA’s current operating model. [And after it happens planning to cry to the Legislature for salvation] After your speedy selection Summer-last, I was heartened that ABOR had finally found the right guy to turn this grotesque, morbidly obese institutional monstrosity around, and whip it into shape, actually helping a highly beleaguered Tucson, and the State address these seminal, existential challenges ahead. I wrote a piece on your ascension (see attached), and am still optimistic you’re the guy to pull it off.
But time is of the essence, and the incredibly regressive, sinecured forces, who’ve been allowed to spend way, way too much time at the government-funded trough, are not going to go down without a fight.
Hang in there,
[signature, and CC: to others]
If you’re so inclined to support Dr. Garimella’s decision, you may contact ABOR at this link, and your Arizona state legislators here. They recently attempted to repeal the “shared governance” doctrine, but were defeated by a last-minute veto threat after hysterical UA academics inundated Katie Hobbs’ office.
What does that tell you?
Sellers is a Southpark, Roosevelt-Republican (Teddy) living in incorporated Oro Valley; his background is federal technology commercialization
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