Monday, July 9, 2012

Roger Herrin

Yesterday's Southern has a lengthy column on SIUC Board of Trustee's chairman Herrin, highlighting his conflicts with University President Glenn Poshard and other board members.  Given the 9% decline in attendance at the university this summer, I found this comment by Herrin interesting:

He (Poshard) knows the university isn’t doing any good, and he will ultimately have to perform,” Herrin said. “Whoever the board members may be, they are going to expect improvement. I want to take this university back to where it was. With some changes at the administrative level, we can turn it around very quickly.

Given the 20+ year of declines in attendance, I really doubt if changes at the administrative level are enough to turn the university around very quickly. You cannot easily turn around an organization with over 14,000 employees on a dime.  ITo do so would require massive shakeups in management, especially at the top level and the university shows no sign of doing that.

1 comment:

  1. You seem to be saying that if SIUC was well managed, there would be in increase in students? So, management doesn't matter? Isn't a better argument that only by changing the BOT and administration that you have a chance of improving?

    Go Roger Herrin. To bad the entire BOT isn't interested in doing better, instead of harvesting political favors.

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