Yes, the great corporate-sponsored privatization bug has hit USM, thanks to Shelby.  Vendor companies for food services have already been on campus and are soon to offer their bids to take over food services.

Isn't there something wrong with a tax-payer supported non-profit institution doling out money to private for-profit corporations? 

Note the consulting company - Pileum - that has been running OTR, now ITech, since Shelby took over. 

These outside companies - Shelby sure likes outsiders - make hiring/firing decisions, take away benefits and salaries for workers, force the university to go along with their particular plans, and in many other ways alienate the very people on campus, employees and students, who are most necessary to running a university.

And, of course, Shelby made these decisions with no input from anyone who will be impacted by the decision - part of his "Can't you tell that I love the faculty, staff, and students?" campaign.  Makes you wonder if money is passing hands from these companies into Shelby's pockets.

We should make a fuss about this, at the least.