Yeah, that won't help. Is there a schedule set for the Presidential search?.......search firm chosen....profile written by the firm?...applications/interviews.....?
@realist77 Yes. ValpoPal posted this back on Apri 1.
So here we are on April 1, and so far there has been no update from VU; the search could begin later in April and still meet the announced kick off.
I can report that the Search Committee was named last week—5 Board members (including chair Jon Steinbrecher), 2 faculty, 1 staff representative, and 1 alumni representative). They have been tasked during April to find a firm to assist with the search. The June 1 deadline you mention seems to be possible, but as you note, the timing also could be "strategic": "if they wait until the semester is over, campus visits will have far less interaction with students, and probably less interaction with faculty."
See the string on Padilla's retiring for more discussion on the search process. .
Thanks. For the 5 board members Jon S. and Winkler are two of them I think as new chair and vice-chair.. Have the other 3 been announced anywhere?
With Jon S. in the chair role I am guessing they will look for other facets and backgrounds from the other three.
Thanks. For the 5 board members Jon S. and Winkler are two of them I think as new chair and vice-chair.. Have the other 3 been announced anywhere?
Search Committee
Board Members: Jon Steinbrecher (Chair), Julie Winkler (Vice Chair), Colette Irwin-Knott, Sara Manske, Paul Strasen
Faculty Members: Professors Sara Gundersen and Rami Musleh
Staff Representative: Carolyn Simpson
Alumni Representative: Cornell Boggs
Thanks. For the 5 board members Jon S. and Winkler are two of them I think as new chair and vice-chair.. Have the other 3 been announced anywhere?
Search Committee
Board Members: Jon Steinbrecher (Chair), Julie Winkler (Vice Chair), Colette Irwin-Knott, Sara Manske, Paul Strasen
Faculty Members: Professors Sara Gundersen and Rami Musleh
Staff Representative: Carolyn Simpson
Alumni Representative: Cornell Boggs
Dr. Gundersen wrote a letter of recommendation for me a few years back. I had her for 2 economics courses. If she is as good at helping with the search as she is as a professor, then we are in good hands.
Collette Irwin-Notte? The interim pres. who changed the mascot? There you go....
" Dr. Gundersen wrote a letter of recommendation for me a few years back. I had her for 2 economics courses. If she is as good at helping with the search as she is as a professor, then we are in good hands."
Agreed! Dr. Gunderson is fantastic and super solid. Smart as a whip, very realistic and pragmatic, pretty slow to get drawn into emotional campus politics, and also very ethical. Gunderson and the econ dept actually demurred to hire in recent years (despite desperately needing relief amid very high teaching loads, so essentially against their own personal labor interests) because they didn't want to lure some poor PhD sap into a 'tenure-track' position amid all the serial cuts, only then to turn around and cut them in a year or few with all the dim trajectories of the university budget. It is unusual to see a department with more self-control than the college/dean/provost level approving hires willy nilly, since most depts under stress would just take the hiring approval and run with it. Gunderson is an awesome teacher, and really the ideal combination of brains, decisiveness for the larger good, moral conscience, and financial prudence. If this were the old days where uni presidents were drawn from the academics, honestly, I'd trust her as uni president more than most the 'higher ed admin professional' hacks out there. Glad she's on the selection committee!
This will be interesting to have Jon Steinbrecher as chair of the board and therefore chair or key voice of the search committee. As a two time conference commissioner, he will be extremely knowledgable of a candidate's athletic vision. But conversely, Jon might feel a need to combat any faculty perception that he will favor an athletics-focused president.
I had a conversation on campus this morning with someone who knows the admissions situation and was pleased to report there has been an uptick of enrollments in April, so the current numbers now are running a little above last year. I was cautioned that there is uncertainty as to whether this is a result of so many applications and decisions being made late last year due to FAFSA problems, and that a better picture will be available in two weeks, but positive news is always good to hear.
I had a conversation on campus this morning with someone who knows the admissions situation and was pleased to report there has been an uptick of enrollments in April, so the current numbers now are running a little above last year. I was cautioned that there is uncertainty as to whether this is a result of so many applications and decisions being made late last year due to FAFSA problems, and that a better picture will be available in two weeks, but positive news is always good to hear.
Last Saturday I was at admitted student day, I thought they did an excellent job. Padilla gave a pretty good speech highlighting the benefits of Valpo over others. They focused on putting in a deposit if you hadnt already and letting the Valpo staff take care of your student. Seemed to go over well and from what I could tell they did convince some that werent previously.
Glad ValpoPal posted good news on April 17.
But sadly student loan default possibilities are in the headlines today. On May 5, student loan borrowers will face a re-start of NORMAL payments and penalties. Private colleges will be hurt again when media stories multiply citing students who are defaulting or drowning. I grieve sincerely for these "kids" who dug a hole for their lives.
But it's also true that the government betrayed other taxpayers, including auto mechanics, truckdrivers, grocery clerks, and others. The government policy should have required colleges to bear the risks and costs of such guarantees. Accountability is a magical thing.
I guess this is assumed, but I admit that I know of zero direct evidence that college debt stories are dissuading students from choosing private schools. But that causal possibility is widely suggested and it seems intuitive.
I think it probably has something to do with the idea of what college means vs the actuality of the wide berth of what is available to students. I thought I remembered reading that technical schools and 2 year schools have higher levels of students defaulting on debts than pricier 4 year private/public schools
The articles I saw state that repayment will resume for those in default of their loans. Not those who are currently in school and on the federal repayment plan.
Well, it covers 5 million fully delinquent borrowers past 90 days. That's a LOT of people. And four million borrowers are 31-89 days past due, a warning signal.
After the March 2020 "CO-VID PAUSE" of payments, Uncle Joe and the actual leaders under him kept extending the "pause" as a four year vote-buying effort. They sent you and your kids the bill for an accumulated 4 years of interest! And,.....as a bonus, you get to help pay off the huge loan amount that will default. Woo hoo.
