....actually escape the construct of a prisoner of the Cal State bureaucracy to

1) get funding from private sources ? sorry doubt she has those type of connections, her resume is all academia incestuous career. no offense, lol

2) she's smart of course to get where she is, now can she lead without mindless 'equity' and 'DEI' blather. there is nothing wrong about diversity, it's fabulous, it should be a no brainer the subject itself. just it really does not need some constant drumbeat as if Long Beach is not a diverse university. what happened under Jane was silly, sad, and unncessary in her messaging. just do not make it some constant mantra. the message has to be excellence. Jane was this silly drumbeat for 10 years

3) see above, it has to all be about excellence. doesn't mean need the President's scholars program to go back to what it was. Just the message has to be focused without some constant qualifiers or caveats to hit. Make the Dean's focus the message on that. what that is, I don't know. I know what it isn't, and it wasn't the environment that Jane created here

4) Athletics. It's almost secondary now, I want the PResident to be a leader on Academics and the Arts first.

5) Athletics. It's a mess. the combination of the structure and coaches bailing under Smitherin and the last two years of seeing everything (except MVB) being basically dismantled. #5a) shoudl be the structure - fix it. #5b) Get focused on VB and quick, before Knipe & Campbell are gone. keep something that works and successful working. it's the cardinal rule of business. do what you do best, and don't screw that up. then go figure out how to fix other things.