Posted by Azorean on 1/14/2008, 10:10 pm, in reply to "Re: SJSU Expected To Hire New President By This Summer"
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: Man, is this ever an important hire. Whoever
: it is, I sure hope they recognize the
: correlation between the football team's
: resurgence in the last couple of years and
: prestige and/or money for the university.
:
: The connection may be loose, but it's hard
: to look past record fundraising the year
: after we broke a decade-plus long bowl
: drought....
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: From NBC-11
:
: SAN JOSE, Calif. -- California State
: University Chancellor Charles Reed said on
: Monday that he expects a new president for
: San Jose State University to be hired by
: this summer.
:
: Reed was in San Jose for the first, and only
: public, meeting of the search committee for
: the new university president. Current
: President Don Kassing, who has held the job
: since 2004, is retiring at the end of the
: school year.
:
: Both Reed and search committee chairman
: William Hauck, a member of the California
: State University system Board of Trustees,
: made it clear they would have loved for
: Kassing, 65, to stay on.
:
: "If Don Kassing had indicated that he
: would continue then we wouldn't be here
: today," Hauck said.
:
: Reed called Kassing a "five-star super
: performer" and said the university has
: enjoyed record fundraising, a resurgent
: football program and overall positive
: momentum under Kassing's tenure.
:
: "I think we're going to get a lot more
: candidates because word is out about the
: momentum at San Jose State under Don
: Kassing," Reed said.
:
: Kassing's background is in university
: management instead of academics. He does not
: hold a Ph.D., unlike typical university
: presidents.
:
: Because of his success at San Jose State,
: the search committee will take a closer look
: at candidates without traditional academic
: backgrounds this time than they may have
: before his presidency, according to Reed.
:
: "It's going to be open to
: everybody," Reed said.
:
: Reed wants to have a new president approved
: by the Board of Trustees and on the job this
: summer.
:
:
: All I ask for is that the selection is based on best qualifications and not based on political correctness.
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