Let me get this straight.Quote:
Originally Posted by LsuULfan
A Hypothetical
The LSUAMCBR "powers that be" consider, evaluate and decide upon O'Keefe and then the govenor disappoves him and says no, it has to be someone else?
Yeah sure.
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Let me get this straight.Quote:
Originally Posted by LsuULfan
A Hypothetical
The LSUAMCBR "powers that be" consider, evaluate and decide upon O'Keefe and then the govenor disappoves him and says no, it has to be someone else?
Yeah sure.
Thats exactly how it works. The folks at LSUA&MC don't always get their way. Just as with the French House at LSUA&MC they considered it the number one priority but the governing committee that oversees such things disagreed and said no it should be #26 behind much more deserving projects. So that was that and the French House was put behind the other pro...uh, nevermind.Quote:
Originally Posted by DestinCajun
:D
By that time Blanco had appointed several BOS members. They weren't going to select someone the Govenor did not approve of. I'm not saying she meddled-just saying as Govenor I'd bet she was consulted and approved. I imagine Jindal will sign off and approve whoever is selected for the UL posiiton (I don't expect him to meddle).Quote:
Originally Posted by DestinCajun
Lombardi-who did a great job w/Florida-had just come in and he pushed it because he wanted to build up the Honors College. You guys always point out how lowly rated LSU is .... We will see if an outsider-Lombardi-can come in and shake things up and raise the quality of the institution.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hammer58
LMAO!!! Can you see the governor (whoever it might be) saying "Okay boys, get your house back in line!".Quote:
Originally Posted by Hammer58
Actually, won't the decision be made and announced before Jindal is officially sworn in? I think I remember the decision announcement date being somewhere around Dec 12. Not sure when the swearing in will be.Quote:
Originally Posted by LsuULfan
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UL Campus — The committee searching for the next president of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette will interview job candidates Monday and Tuesday.
The interviews are open to the public, and community members may submit their own questions in writing.
Thirty-eight people applied for the job by the Oct. 1 deadline, and the search committee last month trimmed the group to five.
On the interview list are state Commissioner of Higher Education Joseph Savoie, ULL Vice President for Academic Affairs Steve Landry and three out-of-state applicants: Karen White, Raymond Flumerfelt and Clifford L. Stanley.
The five candidates are scheduled to arrive in Lafayette on Sunday to tour the campus, meet faculty members, and “get a feel for the university and have some of their questions answered,” UL System spokesman Jackie Tisdell said.
The interviews are scheduled from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday and 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the main auditorium of the Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise at 537 Cajundome Blvd.
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The search committee is expected to make a recommendation to the full UL System board by the end of the year.
Tisdell said the committee could make that recommendation at the conclusion of interviews next week or request that certain candidates return for additional interviews.
ULL President Ray Authement, who announced his retirement in April after 33 years leading the university, is expected to work with the incoming president through spring.
The five candidates come from diverse backgrounds.
Flumerfelt teaches engineering at the University of Houston and also serves as vice director of the Texas National Wind Energy Project. He has led chemical engineering departments at three major universities
Stanley is the president of Minnesota-based Scholarship America, a nonprofit group that administers scholarship money. He moved into academic administration after a 33-year career in the military.
White is a regional chancellor at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg and is the only applicant who is a sitting university president or chancellor.
She taught music for 14 years at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond before shifting into an administrative career in 1990.
Savoie has been state Commissioner of Higher Education since 1996 and before that served in various administrative positions at ULL for 18 years.
Landry has been ULL Vice President for Academic Affairs since 2000 and has worked at the university as either a teacher or an administrator since 1975, with the exception of a brief stint teaching computer science at Nicholls State University.
The selection process has drawn criticism, mainly that the search committee should have worked harder to attract a larger field of qualified out-of-state candidates.
In public hearings earlier this year, the open selection process was also criticized by community members who felt qualified candidates were reticent to apply because all of the applicants’ names have been made public.
For information on the presidential search process, including résumés of those who have applied, visit: www.uls.state.la.us and click on “Presidential Search.
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About 20 years ago, the University of Southwestern Louisiana was embroiled in a fight to have its name changed to the University of Louisiana - no Lafayette tag.
It took face time in the Legislature to make it happen.
That face representing USL at the time was Joe Savoie, who was then director of Alumni Affairs.
"The university didn't have any governmental relations person per se, so from being with the Alumni Association, I was designated as the person to come to Baton Rouge and fight for the university's cause," he said.
While it took another effort to get the name change to stick, Savoie continued his role as the university's voice in Baton Rouge and for the past 12 years, he's continued to represent the interests of all of the state's postsecondary institutions as higher education commissioner.
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It's after the first time in the state's history that higher education received record funding from the Legislature that he's considering stepping down from his statewide leadership role to become the next president of the institution where he began his career.
Savoie said he's been offered other positions in other states, but none have felt right before.
"I've been in this position much longer than is typical," Savoie said. "Often, the average tenure is three to four years. Because of that long tenure and the contacts I've made, I've been approached several times about other positions in other places - campus heads, or positions similar to this one in other states and never seriously considered any of them. But UL is my alma mater. It's my home region, so it's very intriguing."
But time will tell if the move would be the right decision for the university -or him.
"Institutions need different types of leadership at different stages of its history and I am what I am," Savoie said. "I have a public record of consistent approach to things and the committee is going to have to decide whether they think that's in the best interest of the university at this time. They have to determine what they think is the right match. I have an interest, but I have a satisfied and comfortable position and I've got to be satisfied that it's the right match, as well."
Savoie began at UL in 1978 as an assistant dean of student personnel, working closely with student groups on campus. From there, he moved to his position with the Alumni Association and in 1990 served as director of university advancement until 1992 when he became the vice president for university advancement.
His role as the governmental relations representative for the university grew as he continued to build contacts at the Capitol and even developed into a volunteer representative for the UL System, who was also without someone in a permanent governmental affairs role.
Within the next 15 years, Savoie would be asked to be the next commissioner of higher education, the representative of higher education for the state. It was a role he thought would be only temporary.
As part of then-Gov. Mike Foster's transition team, Savoie helped recommend a new commissioner, but the Regents declined the appointment.
"And so, one afternoon when we were in the governor's office telling him what happened, he looked at me and said, 'Why don't you go and do that for a few months until we develop a new strategy.' That was 11 and a half years ago, and it's been a very exciting, rewarding, challenging and educational experience."
With nearly 12 years as the state's higher education leader, Savoie says leadership is "action in progress."
"It's not position," Savoie said. "I think it's important to focus on the cause and not yourself, and if you're going to have significant meaningful impact, then others have to agree and support the agenda."
When Savoie became commissioner, one of his first orders of business was eliminating about 100 duplicate programs at universities - programs that had been fought over for the past two or three years.
"I had the advantage of not having the baggage or the scars from the previous few years of fighting over these things," he said. "I visited campus to campus with the presidents and chief academic officers with their list on the chopping block and negotiated what I thought was a reasonable conclusion."
Another first was moving ahead with past failed efforts to overhaul the Regents and restoring its oversight authority that had been muddied by legislative statutes. While the Constitution stated the Board was responsible for the role, scope and mission of the universities, statutes later added stated that the Board needed the permission of the universities to set perimeters.
"That means you had no authority. It neutered some critical responsibilities of the Board of Regents," Savoie said. "We cleaned that up, but what I think really changed was we moved the Board of Regents from primarily a regulatory body to an educational reform leadership body."
Another major change during his tenure was the restructure of the community and technical colleges, moving them under one oversight board. The board has also been focused on reform issues from teacher preparation to increasing graduation and retention rates.
Savoie was also instrumental in helping universities affected by the 2005 hurricane season recover and set their priorities, according to William Jenkins, former LSU System president.
"Administration in higher education is difficult and complex and fragile in some ways, particularly in the post-Katrina, -Rita environment that we're in," Jenkins said. "The commissioner was very good in facilitating consultative meetings where we discussed and deliberated what the issues are."
Because of the progress Savoie has generated in his role as commissioner, if he leaves the office, the appointment of a successor to maintain that momentum would be a crucial one for the state, Jenkins said.
"You have an experienced, capable commissioner that would be leaving that office, so, clearly, it would be important," Jenkins said. "I can't speak for the Board of Regents, but clearly Commissioner Savoie's successor would be a very critical appointment for the Board of Regents to make."
Not many people affiliated with the University of Louisiana don't know E. Joseph Savoie.
Those that do know him don't call him Joseph or Joe - but T-Joe.
Because of his history with UL and his experience as the state's top higher education chief, Savoie has been called a shoo-in for the position. The rumors are just a little younger than Savoie's 14-year-old son.
"If that were the case, I wish someone would have told me," Savoie said. "But there's been speculation for years and years. That's just people being people. ... The day I came here to take that temporary position people said that there was some grand scheme of Governor Foster. He never mentioned it to me. I'm not aware of any plan and it would have been a lot less nerve-wracking had it been. Frankly, I struggled with the decision to participate in this process and didn't make that decision until the final day."
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Interviews for UL's next president began Monday and continue today, but the question-and-answer sessions aren't the end-all, be-all in choosing a new president, advised UL System's search consultant.
"The interview is the least valid predictor of performance," said James Fisher, the system's search consultant. "... The way to find a leader is to find a leader and that's only done through referencing."
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Fisher and committee members have checked and double-checked sources of the five candidates chosen from an applicant pool of 38. The first two candidates to be interviewed were Karen White, current regional chancellor of University of South Florida, St. Petersburg; and Clifford Stanley, a retired Marine who now heads up Scholarship America, a private nonprofit that manages and distributes scholarships.
Of the remaining three candidates, two are the most familiar with the university: Steve Landry, its current vice president of academic affairs with 36 years at the university, and Joe Savoie, the state's higher education commissioner, who started his career at UL and commutes from the Hub City to Baton Rouge daily. The final interview of today is with Ray Flumerfelt, a University of Houston professor of chemical engineering who is also the vice director of the Texas National Wind Energy Project.
Any of the five is capable of leading UL, Fisher said.
"I referenced each of them, including your locals," Fisher said. "Each person would be distinguished in this presidency. There are a lot of different styles and different backgrounds, but each has played a role in bringing change and maintaining relevant harmony wherever that change has been wrought."
Monday's interview sessions drew a small crowd - less than 20, with the majority employed by UL. Though, faculty and staff had an opportunity to meet with the candidates at meetings Monday or at an evening reception at the Alumni Center.
The interviews start at 9 a.m. today.
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I saw the interview list in this morning's paper and could not help but wonder why an engineering professor from the University of Houston would be in the final cut. Does he have pictures on somebody? If all we wanted was to pick an engineering professor, couldn't we pick one of ours?
I must be missing something...
My thoughts are towards Steve Landry, but that's just me.
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Originally Posted by CajunRed
He is innovative, helped to develop the wind energy project in Texas. Recently found out that was a major push by the former governor and now president of the USA. Texas is now one of the leading wind energy produces of the world.
He also has some experience as a Dean at two major universitites.Quote:
Originally Posted by CajunRed