Welcome Interim President Stan Liberty

[patrick_o'brian]

http://www.bradley.edu/offices/communications/pr/releases/article.dot?id=bf76049e-0b6c-4dfe-88d3-702bb8e6da9b

[tornado]

very interesting...
I had heard that certain influential Board members did NOT want to hire an interim President...
and that the guy who was first approached about being the an interim, would have been happy to take over full time but did NOT want the interim label...

Then all the press releases & reports we have seen have claimed we were well on track to have a new full time President in place by the beginning of the fall term - thus there may be no need for anyone in an "interim capacity"
(although there were some reports to the contrary) - so I wonder if this means a full time President my NOT be in place all that soon?

[Da Coach]

Nice to see a real Bradley guy and a former Provost for 7?? years get promoted to the Interim President position.

Seems like a great choice and a great job by Chairman Stewart and the BOT.

[wizard1]

Welcome Interem President Dr. Stan Liberty

Congratulations to the BOT for selecting Dr. Stan Liberty as Interem President. I have personally known Stan for several years, he and I often golf together, and we have discussed Bradleys situation on several occasions. Stan is a great guy, and outstanding Engineering teacher and an experienced college top administrator. He will do a great job for Bradley.
Wiz

[tornado]

Interview with interim President Stan Liberty

the interview starts at about 20:50 and it is easy to fast forward or scroll once it has loaded.

http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/central-illinois-on-the-record-episode-9

[tornado]

a couple lines from the article in the Scout about Dr. Stan Liberty

"Interim President Stan Liberty has been seen across campus throughout the summer and the beginning of fall semester: at orientation sessions, move-in day, Bradley Organization Leadership Training program, and even on a normal day of classes.

New strategies and tactics are being used to refresh Bradley and to ensure long-term enrollment recovery, according to Liberty.

..taglines ???Be brave??? and ???Go far, go Bradley??? are being phased out ....there would be a greater focus on the prestige and exceptional quality associated with Bradley.
Several other changes have been made to improve the social media aspects of Bradley??™s image."

http://www.bradleyscout.com/news/president-liberty-handles-campus-updates/

[Da Coach]

There is still nothing specific being officially reported about the long-lasting search for a new University President that began back in early February. That means the search is now well into it's 8th month (is that some kind of record?).
However, I am hearing that some news is about to be breaking soon after many months of silence. I have confidence the Board will get this right, like they have gotten everything else right in these last 9 months, IMO.

[tornado]

I think the search even started BEFORE February when that article detailed the search committee, but I understand the newspaper's reasons to stay silent until the news was made available to everyone in a wide release...
Many first heard that the Board of Trustees was already reaching out to potential candidates as far back as December.
But I do have a remote concern that this selection for a new President might yet be influenced by one or more voices that helped engineer the last choice or who supported that choice that was so catastrophically bad.


BTW - DC made reference to it before Christmas...

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=301558&postcount=21

and a long time, but infequent poster with impeccable inside connections going back two decades - confirmed exactly who we were talking about

[Da Coach]

Yes. The action was started at a Board Meeting just before Christmas, 2014. It was referred to here first-

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=301652#post301652

I doubt anyone at the newspaper had any knowledge of it until they were sent a press release Feb. 9, 2015.

[tornado]

Another of the editorials in the Bradley Scout addresses the Presidential Search...
and calls for more openness & transparency...

http://www.bradleyscout.com/opinion/dont-keep-us-in-the-dark/

"Don't Keep Us in the Dark"

"The last email update was released July 30...
Since then, it has been over a month and a half with no new information released.

This isn’t a request for an accelerated process. Choosing a president for the university
is not something to be taken lightly or to be rushed.

However, as it was stated several times in the presidential search forums, campus
members desire transparency.

...That being said, Liberty made it clear in his initial press release announcing
his position as interim president that he would not “set a vision or change strategic plans
for the university.”

This silence on the committee’s part is troubling, partly because decisions
need to be made, and the campus community is left in the dark, meanwhile.

The committee needs to keep to its decision to include the campus community
in this process, wherever it goes."


I recall a similar year-long campaign from another of our local newspapers a few years back demanding openness & transparency from Bradley
on their building plans and property acquisitions.....but those writers have basically left this whole topic of the President being fired and replaced alone.