Charles Reed, Assessment, and "The Great Mistake"

BY HANK REICHMAN Charles Reed, former head of the now-dismantled Florida state university system and for sixteen years (1996-2012) Chancellor of the twenty-three-campus California State University (CSU), died this week at the age of 75.  Known to friend and foe alike as just “Charlie,” Reed was a highly controversial leader whose brusque, even bullying style…