UL Presidential Selection Process

[MissingMandy]

_ Thought this forum would like to know that both Steve Landry and Joe Savoie were at the game tonight, given that they seem to be the logical front-runners to take over next year. I saw a couple of questions about their respective attitudes about Cajun Football earlier and thought there might be some interest in knowing. Geaux Cajuns, beat A-State! _

I would be interested in knowing what are their attitudes regarding Cajun football? Is there a link?

[Hammer58]

_ Thought this forum would like to know that both Steve Landry and Joe Savoie were at the game tonight, given that they seem to be the logical front-runners to take over next year. I saw a couple of questions about their respective attitudes about Cajun Football earlier and thought there might be some interest in knowing. Geaux Cajuns, beat A-State! _

Doc A was at the game also. Just being there does not constitute supporting athletics in the manner it needs to be supported.

[RaginCajunPie]

Back to the original topic...I saw both T-Joe Savoie and Dr. Landry at Cajun football games last year, too, before this whole presidential search thing started.

[RonMexico]

Back to the original topic...I saw both T-Joe Savoie and Dr. Landry at Cajun football games last year, too, before this whole presidential search thing started.

Its all original. Its all real. Its all extremely sad.

LargeRonte'

[Pirogue]

_ Doc A was at the game also. Just being there does not constitute supporting athletics in the manner it needs to be supported. _

Doc A was on the sideline during the game, talking on his cell phone.

[RaginFan2]

_ Howdy y'all. I'm a UL alum, class of 2004, and am studying in minor seminary at St. Joseph Seminary College in St. Benedict, LA (right outside of Covington). Any St. Tammany parish people in here???????????

The other other day we had a presentation of some endowed professorships and T-Joe (Savoie) came for the presentation. I must say that he is one of the nicest guys I met, very easy to talk to, and when I told him good luck on the UL presidency thing, he had a good attitude and was humble as well. I don't know who the other four are, but he's got my vote!

God Bless

p.s.- How hard would it be to get a St. Tammany Parish Alum chapter started up? _

I'm in St. Tammany. I have talked with Dan Hare of the Alumni Assn. to try to get something going here. He seemed somewhat interested, but not exactly what I would call enthusiastic about it. We do have a lot of alums in this parish, many are what I call the "invisible alums" because you often see them but don't know they graduated from UL. I would definitely like to see something et off the ground here.

[NewsCopy]

BATON ROUGE - Some members of the UL faculty are questioning whether the search for a new president has been "rigged." In a chain of e-mails forwarded to The Daily Advertiser, several faculty members asked how the search committee could have narrowed the field of 38 applicants to five in a two-hour meeting and how the two "insiders" - Commissioner of Higher Education Joe Savoie, a former UL vice president, and current UL Vice President Steve Landry - got in the final five when they didn't apply until the final day. The rest of the story Mike Hasten mhasten@gannett.com

[anhil8tor]

boo hoo!


Lets see the names of people who are questioning....

[CajunRed]

This is kinda funny. If the search committee had NOT included any local candidates, I guess the faculty would then have been complaining that "no local people were good enough"?

I would surely HOPE that, if qualified, local candidates with strong ties to the University would get preference over any others. I have seen nothing to make me think that either local candidate lacks the qualifications to lead UL forward.

Considering how long the two local applicants have been around this area and UL, I can EASILY see that only a couple of hours would be needed to determine if they should be in the final cut. Matter of fact, I would think the search committee already knew enough about them BEFORE receiving their applications. (Sounds like some jealous comments coming out of certain faculty members. You'd think they would have thought this through before sending such stupid emails!)

[Zeebart21]

Did you not see this coming? This was a farce from the beginning. The "open" process Ms Tisdale refers to is/was c.rap.

Z.

Looks like "we U.L.L'd ourselves", once again.

[srevere51]

Ever think that the board had debated on the applicants before that 2 hour session.

The thing that sucks for UL is that no matter what they do, someone is going to call the advertiser and _____ and moan about something

[AstroCajun]

_ Ever think that the board had debated on the applicants before that 2 hour session.

The thing that sucks for UL is that no matter what they do, someone is going to call the advertiser and _____ and moan about something _

You got that right.

UL = Catch 22 U.