Board of Trustees chairman calls special meeting
October 23, 2019
The Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting Friday, Chairman J. Phil Gilbert announced.
The meeting will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Friday at the Edwardsville campus.
The open portion of the meeting is reserved for public questions and comments, then the Board will move into executive session. No other items are on the agenda.
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The search for a new system president has narrowed in recent weeks and a candidate is expected to be announced before the regularly scheduled December meeting of the board.
The presidential search committee consists of 27 members, with Trustee Ed Hightower as chairman. It also includes three board liaisons, Edgar Curtis, Amy Sholar and Roger Tedrick.
Applications for president of the system closed Aug. 30.
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Tony Williams • Oct 25, 2019 at 11:13 am
Unfortunately, these are the very qualities that will ensure the non-appointment of this type of person. It may have been true of 1969 but not today. With faculty ranks depleted resulting in the threat to departments, graduate, and undergraduate program survival, the most likely result will be the appointment of a corporate-minded CEO who will achieve the goal of the BOT – the destruction of tenure and reorganization that will make SIUC a vocational institution hostile to the goal of the “breadth of disciplines” let alone a “welcoming place of learning.” Current enrollment proves this conclusively.
Bill McGraw SIU CLASS OF 1969 • Oct 23, 2019 at 6:54 pm
I trust the board of trustees understands the gravity of the past president’s mediocrity and its effect upon the SIU SYSTEM and hire an academician(not a political individual) with a proven track record of growing intellectual integrity and scholarship. All the campuses need a visionary who is young, energetic and who understands SIU’s position within the academic world as a Carnegie Designated Research University(high research) and conveys that strength to southern Illinois families and students, alumni, corporations and the public in general. Being a “hidden gem” for too long, the new president should have a strong character and mindset to take positions that SIU is indeed a welcoming place of learning where the breath of disciplines rivals any institution within the United States. Our future president should have the ability to step into the corporate world and secure monies for scholarship, research, faculty empowerment and bring the political, business and educational leaders throughout the state to the SIU table to with the understanding that SIU belongs at the table of scholarship in the same vein as the “elite” schools. This selection is more critical than the DELYTE MORRIS selection given the headwinds that SIU has faced for over 10 years. The best, brightest mind should be the only criteria because southern Illinois deserves a visionary who will bring the campuses together and grow intellectual integrity for all southern Illinois high school students and their families.