<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">According to the Cedar Rapids Gazette podcast on September 4, 2015, a Colorado friend who had given the University $45 million nominated the new president. The contract supposedly requires him to live in the president’s house. That cannot happen because it is being renovated to the tune of over $2 million.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">K<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 23, 2015, at 5:37 PM, Jayant Rajgopal <<a href="mailto:jay.rajgopal@gmail.com" class="">jay.rajgopal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_extra">Unfortunately Gwen, business men with no academic experience or background don't LET the deans manage scholarly activities! <br class="">On a side note, I'm not a dean or even a dept. chair, but I have been a professor at a Research 1 school for over thirty years - I am firmly convinced that a significant proportion of the (constantly increasing number of...) non-academic administrators we seem to have (development, diversity, research accounting, information technology) are there for the sole purpose of making life harder for faculty and students :-(<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br class="">From: Gwen McNatt <<a href="mailto:gmcnhawkeye@gmail.com" class="">gmcnhawkeye@gmail.com</a>><br class="">To: Herky <<a href="mailto:herky@lists.herky.net" class="">herky@lists.herky.net</a>><br class="">Cc: <br class="">Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 19:15:16 -0500<br class="">Subject: Re: [Herky] President<br class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">Agree </p><p dir="ltr" class="">We need a business man to be the chief executive. Let the deans manage the scholarly activities. Having spent the last 8 years in school, I can testify to the need for some business and customer service acumen in the institution that I attended</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 22, 2015 1:25 PM, "Jeff Napier" <<a href="mailto:jnapier111@outlook.com" target="_blank" class="">jnapier111@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:15px;line-height:21.3px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">Based on the little I have seen so far I do think he will be a much better president as far as supporting athletics.</span></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><snip><br class=""></div></div>
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