Dartmouth Comments on the Nomination of Jim Yong Kim for World Bank Prez

Jim Yong Kim, president of Dartmouth, announced in an email to the Dartmouth community his nomination by President Obama for World Bank president. Here are selected comments left at The Dartmouth web site following the report of Kim's email about the nomination:

Great news for Dartmouth, bad news for the World Bank.
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Well, gee whiz, a President of the United States with no managerial or administrative experience nominates a president of Dartmouth College with no managerial or administrative experience to use his delusional powers of ideology, backed up with real taxpayer money, to continue the leftist wreckage of the world at large. Dartmouth College is for all intents and purposes already ideologically wrecked by the left and the “Social Justice” agenda. What do these two men have in common, the U.S. president and President Kim? “Social Justice” of course. They are nutbar ideological soulmates. Did they kiss after the ceremony?
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I HATE YOU JIM KIM! However, you have taught me not to trust people like you, or the government, and I am sure that will be a useful lesson in the future.
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The College has been betrayed by all of the people who put Kim where he is. Anyone who read “Mountains Beyond Mountains” by Tracy Kidder, regarding Jim Yong Kim, would have found that Kim liked traveling around in style and living the high life on other people’s dime rather than doing the job of actually helping people. He is a phony.
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It’s interesting that no one has anything constructive to say. I believe that, while Kim may have failed at leading the College, he will excel at this job. Development and public health have long been his passions — not presiding over a bunch of entitled braniacs in the middle of nowhere. Dartmouth College president wasn’t his true calling, but president of the World Bank well may be. Congratulations, Dr. Kim, and may you find success in all of your future endeavors.
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It is amazing that the World Bank would even consider Dim Kim after reading these comments about his current job performance. The Trustees should remove him as President of Dartmouth immediately and begin the search process. Now that he has shown his intentions for his future he will be an ineffective leader of the Dartmouth community. They should also make sure that he takes his Harvard cronies with him so that the College can start to repair all the damage that has occurred during his tenure.
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I also don’t understand the vitriol and agree that it reflects badly on the priorities of the college that he is shot at so scathingly.

Disillusion I understand, and something had to be done about the hazing, but there is no faster way to become unpopular than to make budget cuts, and I am grateful for his guidance.

I learned more from one evening’s talk by President Kim than I would have thought possible. I carry the notes around on my phone and consult them! I liked his vision and am shocked at the priorities expressed by several here – the concerns about dress and formality?
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I think many of these comments are unfair. Students expected far too much out of the Kim administration while not putting in the effort to solve their own problems. That being said, I think it was Kim’s whole narrative of thinking globally that proved to be his downfall here. Because he sought solutions from the outside, he was seen, fairly or not, as aloof and unresponsive. Still though, it is this kind of global outlook that will hopefully make him a successful head of the World Bank. In the end, Dartmouth just wasn’t the right fit for him. I wish him the best at his new post.
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“These comments about Kim are just too harsh.” For all those who think the comments are too harsh, I have some questions. What did Kim do in his 3 years at Dartmouth College to improve anything? What did Kim do to refocus the College on the students? What did he do to make things worse? What did he try? What were his goals? What did he say he might want to do? He said he wanted to improve Dartmouth’s rankings with PR. He wasn’t going to improve Dartmouth’s rankings by anything real, he was going to do it with marketing and BS. Now he’s moving on to a pure BS job and he will fail at that too. He got the top 3 years of pay in his life by far, at Dartmouth College and the best perks and he did nothing….nothing…and he had plans for more nothing. If you don’t like that, it isn’t the fault of the commenter, it is Kim’s fault and the Trustees for selecting his sorry a—.,