UL Presidential Selection Process

[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

[anhil8tor]

for the area or authement?

[CajunFun]

I'm famous: Letter to the Editor

[NewsCopy]

Reorganization could cut deans’ jobs Two Fayetteville State University deans, including one who oversees the nursing program, could lose their positions under a reorganization plan. The plan calls for two separate schools — the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the College of Basic and Applied Science — to be shifted to the College of Arts and Science by January. The decision to move the schools into one college, which was made by interim Chancellor Vic Hackley, undoes a decision by former Chancellor T.J. Bryan to separate them. News of the pending merger reached the faculty in September, when University Provost Dr. Juliette Bell told an FSU Faculty Senate Committee that the restructuring was being done because of FSU’s small size. The rest of the story By Corey G. Johnson

[Hammer58]

"James, who had until recently been a candidate for the presidency of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, could not be reached for comment. University officials did not respond to questions about the matter. "

Geez, he spends $0.42 or whatever to mail in a resume and suddenly he adds "candidate for the presidency" of UL to his resume as if he was a serious contender. Maybe I should have mailed mine in as well so I could bring that up at parties. Makes a hell of a pick up line "Hi. Did I mention that I was recently a candidate for the presidency of UL?" MAn I hope MIT or Harvard has a presidential vacancy soon!

[anhil8tor]

Do we have a president yet?

[anhil8tor]

fifty views... and no answer.


i'm guessing no?