SBIWe are told, that our "cracker jack" search firm, the Hollins Group, has turned up only four additional candidates in the SBI Dean search. This brings the total number of candidates to eight. The four new candidates and four of the five finalist from the previous search. No names of the SBI finalist have been released yet. However, you can check out the five previous finalist here Previous SBI Finalist
With the it getting very close to FAMU's self-imposed July 1, 2006 deadline of filling the many vacant deanships across campus, one would imagine we are getting down to the wire in these searches.
College of Education (CoE)
Interviews of the five finalist have begun. The five candidate are: Patricia B. Wachhotz, Assoc. Professor, CoE, Florida Gulf Coast University Wachhotz vitae; Leroy Simmons, Interim VP of Academic Affairs/Dean of Education, Livingstone College (NC) Simmons vitae; Lucian Yates, III, Chair and Associate Professor, SoEd, Kentucky State University Yates vitae; James Tokona, Chair, Dept. of Elementary Education, Southern University New Orleans (LA) Tokona vitae; Scott Jackson Dantley, Acting Dean, SoEd, Bowie State University (MD), Dantley vitae
One look at the CoE deanship candidates clearly shows that this search should be suspended until after a permanent president is seated. There is not one sitting Education dean on the list!
ReplyDeleteAs much as I hate to think about SBI entering another year without a permanent, it is probably prudent to suspend that search as well until after the 10th president is hired. How many times are we going to interview the SAME people?
Perhaps the permanent president will be able to directly recruit a good SBI dean.
Hey there are a couple of interim/acting deans on the CoE candidate list. I guess they are will to serve as temporary hires ANYWHERE!
ReplyDeleteJudging from Bryant's hires in the Division of Students affairs (VP and financial aid assistant director), she'll probably jump at the chance to hire another FGCU employee.
ReplyDeleteWhy in the hell are we looking to Florida's youngest university in order to tell us how to run the state's third oldest university?
New leadership at FAMU is necessary in order to propel the university forward. I'm quite pleased with Bryant's hires, particularly the young, talented, and connected individuals in the field of higher education.
ReplyDeleteAnd who ARE these young connected people?
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ReplyDeleteNew leadership is not sufficient. Competent leadership is what FAMU needs.
Who are the "talented" people that Castell Bryant has brought in?
Is it Debra Austin, the community college administrator who was fired from the university chancellorship and has failed to get a coherent recruitment plan together for the university?
Is it Vincent June, the VP of Student Affairs who claimed that FAMU has a "diversity problem?" June has not said a word about recruiting more National Achivement Scholars or top black high school graduates, but he wants to bend over backwards to bring more non-blacks into our institution.
Is it Kenneth Tague, the JUCO administrator who made FAMU's financial aid problems even WORST by stifling communication lines, increasing red tape, and forcing student waiting lines the damn Foote Hilyer Building?
If these people are so talented and well connected, then why are they aren't they reversing the declining numbers in enrollment and fundraising?
Somebody is calling Bryant's hires "talented and connected?" What a joke!
ReplyDeleteIt must be Rufus, again. Get to work!
conflict of interest?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nccj.org/documents/NCCJ_Pres-CEO_specs.pdf#search='Lawrence%20I.%20Hollins'
these folks arent good enough, we need to call the search off until we have a new president in place, I believe more and better candidates will arise once all this bad press subsides, who wants to come on board with this tomfoolery going down...
ReplyDeleteWhy didnt they hire a headhunter?