President Gary Roberts to retire- search for new President begun

[Da Coach]

Bradley has announced that they have narrowed the search for a new University President to 20 candidates from an initial list of over 100 applicants.
As we reported above, President Gary Roberts announced last May that he would be retiring in May, 2020. The Bradley Board of Trustees created a search committee consisting of trustees, faculty and a student representative, and co-chaired by Judge James Shadid and Kathi Holst.
The committee will continue to gather more information about the 20 candidates, then they'll meet in January to narrow their list to "8 to 10" finalists who will be interviewed in January. Then they will make a recommendation to the full Board of Trustees.

[Tommy]

Saw this on the Bradley Insider and thought I'd re-post it because it was so meaningful:

Her total compensation in 2015, the year in which she stepped down, was $2,350,851

Holy cow - what an amazing amount of dough it took to get rid of her, and that doesn't count

the additional $3-4 million it took to buy out Cross & Geno and the $5-10 million to pay all the lawsuits and legal costs!!

Add to that the loss of somewhere in the $50 million range of all the donations and gifts she cost Bradley

(the Puterbaugh gift, Hersey Hawkins' support, Robert Turner's $10 million pledge she blew off when she forced him out as President of the Board of Trustees, and others, etc...)

https://www.forbes.com/pictures/5a2eb7a8a7ea430739474a47/9-joanne-k-glasser-bradle/#4b11b9f32e43

But it was still worth it to get rid of her since she was tanking the enrollment, the endowment, the Athletic Department, and everything else at Bradley. She had to go and the costs would have only gotten worse had we let her stay.

I'd say things have recovered nicely under new Administration and staff. But Joanne Glasser goes down and the single worst Administration hire in the history of higher education - and yet there are still complete doofuses who claim she was good for the University.

[Da Coach]

Yeah, it was one massive mistake that Bradley sports and the university in general are still trying to overcome, and maybe never will completely

[bigjimmy]

Can we please make a New Years resolution on Bradleyfans please? NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER MENTION THAT NAME AGAIN!! It just isn't worth it.