UL Presidential Selection Process

[Hammer58]

_ 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. _

Not this time. This time we were Sally'd.

[CajunCharlie]

It's a case of damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

[ulforlife]

just elect savoie and get it over with

[LsuULfan]

_ Not this time. This time we were Sally'd.
_

How so? I'm no fan of Sally, and T Joe or Landry may do a fine job (both seem to be well thought of and respected) but the process has all appearances of being rigged from the beginning and the 2 leading candidates were the ones rumored to be Dr. A's choices before the process started.

[Zeebart21]

How so? I'm no fan of Sally, and T Joe or Landry may do a fine job (both seem to be well thought of and respected) but the process has all appearances of being rigged from the beginning and the 2 leading candidates were the ones rumored to be Dr. A's choices before the process started.

T-nom it all started with the open application process. Not begrudging your fine school, but ya'll weren't subject to an open application process last time you chose a president. We shouldn't have been forced to either. Sally C refused to be questioned about the process.
This thing may very well have been rigged. Maybe Dr A and Sally C. should both be thrown under a bus?

Z

[Kal]

Maybe we just forgot how to go about getting a new president. I mean it has been 30 years since we last chose a new president.

[LsuULfan]

_ T-nom it all started with the open application process. Not begrudging your fine school, but ya'll weren't subject to an open application process last time you chose a president. We shouldn't have been forced to either. Sally C refused to be questioned about the process.
This thing may very well have been rigged. Maybe Dr A and Sally C. should both be thrown under a bus?

Z _

Call me Oliver Stone, but I think it started before that-the Open Process was part of or because of the fix-they never intended to have a credible "search". Look-I gather Savoie and Landy are good guys so I don't mean this as a criticism of them-but I also think UL-if it wd have had a real "search" [closed like LSU did] that a good candidate w/national credentials could have been found. I think UL is an excellent university w/plenty of upside and that other candidates wd have seen that. I wd tend to agree on the 2 people (if not more) that need to be thrown under the bus on this ...

[Zeebart21]

Call me Oliver Stone, but I think it started before that-the Open Process was part of or because of the fix-they never intended to have a credible "search". Look-I gather Savoie and Landy are good guys so I don't mean this as a criticism of them-but I also think UL-if it wd have had a real "search" [closed like LSU did] that a good candidate w/national credentials could have been found. I think UL is an excellent university w/plenty of upside and that other candidates wd have seen that. I wd tend to agree on the 2 people (if not more) that need to be thrown under the bus on this ...

I personally don't know if they are good guys are not, T. I have been told by folks that I respect that they are top notch. I think we both believe the same things with regards to this farcical process..... Its business as usual @ good ole U.L.L. what a pis.ser.

Z

[ULBaby!]

Clausen will be the next Commisioner of Higher Education After Dr. S is out of the way and becomes President of UL.

Take that wherever you want to...

... also remember Clausen's ties to SLU and that SLU is within a couple dozen students from being the largest U in the UL system.

man... I love Louisiana!

[NewsCopy]

The list of who could be UL's next president looks something like this: A chemical engineer now working to create a national wind energy research center in Texas. An academic vice president with 31 years at the university he now hopes to lead. A Marine who's commanded thousands of Marines and sailors and is president of a national organization that raises and distributes scholarship money. A violinist serving as CEO of a campus of 5,000 students. And the state's commissioner of higher education who's overseen the state's colleges and universities for the past 11 years. But is one of them right to be UL's next president? The community isn't completely won over. The rest of the story Marsha Sills msills@theadvertiser.com

Here's the list of committee members: Search committee chair UL System President Sally Clausen, nonvoting member Clausen has served as University of Louisiana System president since 2001. Her prior positions include, secretary of education, commissioner of higher education and president of Southeastern Louisiana University. Voting members Paul Aucoin: UL System board member since February 2007. He is an attorney who lives in Thibodaux. Elsie Burkhalter: Vice chair of the UL System Board. Burkhalter is the current president of the St. Tammany Federation of Teachers and School Employees and served as a teacher for the St. Tammany Parish School System. Jeffrey Jenkins: UL System Board member since 2005. He's an attorney employed by The Shaw Group, where he serves as vice president of special projects. Renee Lapeyrolerie: UL Board member since February 2007. She is the public information officer for the Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff's Office and press secretary to Criminal Sheriff Martin Gusman. Jimmy Long Sr.: Chairman of the UL System board. Long is from Natchitoches and served eight terms in the Louisiana House of Representatives. John Meriwether: UL faculty senate representative. Meriwether is a UL physics professor and is the executive officer of the faculty senate. He joined the UL faculty in 1966. Wayne Parker: UL System board member. Parker is a resident of Ruston and a graduate of Louisiana Tech University. Olinda Ricard: UL System student board member. She attends Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, where she serves as the SGA president. Winfred Sibille: UL system board member. Sibille is serving his second term as a board member. He was initially appointed in 1995 and reappointed in 2007. Sibille, of Sunset, is a UL alumni. Non-voting advisory members Jim Prince: UL Foundation board trustee and retired Lafayette businessman. He had served as the chief financial officer of Stone Energy in Lafayette. Candace Urbanowski: Urbanowski serves as UL's Student Government Association president.

[srevere51]

blah blah stop crying, no one is ever happy

[NewsCopy]

I want to thank The Daily Advertiser for the recent article on the UL president search. This is the single most important decision to be made in Acadiana in many years. The University of Louisiana affects every aspect of our lives - educational, economic, political, intellectual and cultural. UL has the single largest financial impact on our region of any entity - rapidly approaching $1 billion - and it is the most important tool we have for improving our quality of life. It should also be noted that UL is one of the two largest universities in the three-state region of Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas, and we are showing explosive growth in research, grants funding, donations, graduate programs, economic development and selective admissions. The process, however, is at variance with searches held in every other state, and the low application numbers give one pause. A former president of a significant doctoral institution noted to the selection committee that when he was chosen to head that university, he was selected from a field of 450 applicants. That university is less than half UL's size, and yet we did not receive 10 percent of its applicant pool. One small correction to the article: My comment was not that the applicants were not strong but that not all of them are strong. Fortunately, our two local products are strong candidates. I hope that the UL system performs future presidential searches in a manner that conforms with the accepted practices across the nation. Joseph Abraham Lafayette The source of the story