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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jan 11, 2021 10:55:43 GMT -5
Announced this morning she is taking role at Xavier University. Her term at La Salle concludes on June 30
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Post by mikesmd77 on Jan 11, 2021 11:01:30 GMT -5
Congratulations to her. Will miss having a president engaging enough to reach out to alumni for input and ideas, even posting on this forum. Good luck!
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Post by explorer88 on Jan 11, 2021 11:01:42 GMT -5
Good, bad, indifferent?
Would be interested in everyone's thoughts.
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Post by explorerentourage on Jan 11, 2021 11:04:27 GMT -5
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Post by theneumann64 on Jan 11, 2021 11:04:44 GMT -5
Well, I do have to say that considering where Xavier falls relative to us in the pecking order in a lot of things (athletics specifically, but also their endowment is much bigger than ours), it appears that some people outside of here think she did a very good job at La Salle. If our basketball coach got hired at Xavier it would generally mean they did a good job as a coach at La Salle.
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Post by calsufan on Jan 11, 2021 11:06:59 GMT -5
I am sad to see her go. I think she was a breath of fresh air which was much needed. I hope they find someone equally as good or better.
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Post by MisterD on Jan 11, 2021 11:10:16 GMT -5
Good, bad, indifferent? Would be interested in everyone's thoughts. Great for her, bad for us? |
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Post by jetstorm on Jan 11, 2021 11:15:02 GMT -5
Thanks for a job well done!
Do you think you can get us a home and home with Xavier?
Best of luck.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jan 11, 2021 11:16:48 GMT -5
7 sports cut, art sold, freshman enrollment at lowest it has been in years, no facilities plan for basketball yet..not staying around to deal with the fallout of any of that. I guess everyone can determine their own measure of "success".
As a faculty member friend of mine said a few years ago, "You don't have to like the administration, you just have to outlast them. Presidents come and go, but the faculty that makes La Salle who La Salle is endures."
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Post by 23won on Jan 11, 2021 11:23:37 GMT -5
Is she going via the Portal?
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Post by calsufan on Jan 11, 2021 11:37:02 GMT -5
7 sports cut, art sold, freshman enrollment at lowest it has been in years, no facilities plan for basketball yet..not staying around to deal with the fallout of any of that. I guess everyone can determine their own measure of "success". As a faculty member friend of mine said a few years ago, "You don't have to like the administration, you just have to outlast them. Presidents come and go, but the faculty that makes La Salle who La Salle is endures." No doubt Bill Matthews has already contacted you as the lead replacement for her position? |
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jan 11, 2021 11:41:07 GMT -5
7 sports cut, art sold, freshman enrollment at lowest it has been in years, no facilities plan for basketball yet..not staying around to deal with the fallout of any of that. I guess everyone can determine their own measure of "success". As a faculty member friend of mine said a few years ago, "You don't have to like the administration, you just have to outlast them. Presidents come and go, but the faculty that makes La Salle who La Salle is endures." No doubt Bill Matthews has already contacted you as the lead replacement for her position? Did I say anything inaccurate there? |
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Post by calsufan on Jan 11, 2021 11:43:09 GMT -5
No doubt Bill Matthews has already contacted you as the lead replacement for her position? Did I say anything inaccurate there? Well I think we disagree on each other's point of view. so obviously the answer is yes. Will I debate point by point with you? No. I simply disagree with you. |
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Post by jellybean on Jan 11, 2021 11:51:22 GMT -5
Did I say anything inaccurate there? Well I think we disagree on each other's point of view. so obviously the answer is yes. Will I debate point by point with you? No. I simply disagree with you. Gee I was looking forward to the debate on the lowest freshmen enrollment in years. |
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Post by calsufan on Jan 11, 2021 11:54:17 GMT -5
Well I think we disagree on each other's point of view. so obviously the answer is yes. Will I debate point by point with you? No. I simply disagree with you. Gee I was looking forward to the debate on the lowest freshmen enrollment in years. Sorry.  |
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Post by explorer88 on Jan 11, 2021 12:00:08 GMT -5
I don't know all the roadblocks she faced and all that she will get credit for getting the wheels moving on and eventually finishes when she leaves, so my thoughts are from afar.
Pros:
I like her outsider perspective of how La Salle should be operated. The university was too engrained with "this is how it was always done" mentality for way too long. She made tough decisions and ruffled feathers which sometimes has to be done.
Cons:
As a basketball fan she did not accomplish the renovation of Gola. That was always the hopes and goal of the La Salle basketball fan when she was hired. A Layperson will help us get that gym completed was the hope. Didn't happen.
Is La Salle really a better university 6 years later? It is not easy to measure this in a pandemic but if I asked that question a year ago before everything was shut down could we point easily to why La Salle was better today compared to when she came in? I have a hard time quantifying that as does some of the people I know who view La Salle from afar.
For me she was neither great nor disappointing. Obviously hiring the right person now is beyond critical to La Salle's long term future and survival.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jan 11, 2021 12:03:12 GMT -5
Did I say anything inaccurate there? so obviously the answer is yes. OK...what was inaccurate of these things? - sports cut - art sold - freshman enrollment at lowest it has been in years - no facilities plan for basketball yet |
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Post by 23won on Jan 11, 2021 12:03:17 GMT -5
88, neither great nor disappointing is a good way to capture the tenure
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jan 11, 2021 12:03:55 GMT -5
88, neither great nor disappointing is a good way to capture the tenure Like most of our basketball seasons |
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Post by explorer88 on Jan 11, 2021 12:06:51 GMT -5
88, neither great nor disappointing is a good way to capture the tenure Like most of our basketball seasons Ouch!!! |
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Post by gymrat67 on Jan 11, 2021 12:07:06 GMT -5
[ Interpreted / expressed in ' Hanyczian ' prose ]
This unwelcome ( but not unexpected ) news has disrupted - at least temporarily - my normal Lasallian pragmatic optimism that the University will always be able to continue to fulfill it's traditional role as an incubator of transformational positive outcomes.
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Post by theneumann64 on Jan 11, 2021 12:09:46 GMT -5
I don't know all the roadblocks she faced and all that she will get credit for getting the wheels moving on and eventually finishes when she leaves, so my thoughts are from afar. Pros: I like her outsider perspective of how La Salle should be operated. The university was too engrained with "this is how it was always done" mentality for way too long. She made tough decisions and ruffled feathers which sometimes has to be done. Cons: As a basketball fan she did not accomplish the renovation of Gola. That was always the hopes and goal of the La Salle basketball fan when she was hired. A Layperson will help us get that gym completed was the hope. Didn't happen. Is La Salle really a better university 6 years later? It is not easy to measure this in a pandemic but if I asked that question a year ago before everything was shut down could we point easily to why La Salle was better today compared to when she came in? I have a hard time quantifying that as does some of the people I know who view La Salle from afar. For me she was neither great nor disappointing. Obviously hiring the right person now is beyond critical to La Salle's long term future and survival. This is good, thoughtful stuff. I don't know how to quantify a lot of "are we better off" stuff either, especially given the pandemic, but I appreciate you laying it out a bit. I will say it's a tough time to lose a university President, but given that I'm sure there may be more administrators available than usual right now, maybe that's a silver lining. The applicant pool may be deeper than it otherwise would be. |
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Post by Happy Fortune on Jan 11, 2021 12:17:51 GMT -5
I always appreciated seeing President Hanycz at basketball games. She will certainly be missed.
I just hope she didn't see the writing on the wall and got out of dodge before we become Holy Family University, west campus.
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Post by explorerman on Jan 11, 2021 12:37:44 GMT -5
I always appreciated seeing President Hanycz at basketball games. She will certainly be missed. I just hope she didn't see the writing on the wall and got out of dodge before we become Holy Family University, west campus. Holy Family would become La Salle in that situation :-) |
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Post by explorerman on Jan 11, 2021 13:00:19 GMT -5
Very disappointing development... She was dealt a crappy hand and did what she could with it... All loose arguments being tied to her are exactly that "loose" at best... Like 'Lowest freshman enrollment in years'... right that is really her fault, I could think of oh I don't know about 3-4 things easy that would bigger negatives for enrollment that are simply outside of her... Obviously starting with the largest one, COVID. Xavier is making history with this hire and it could not come at a worst time for us.... I have seen and worked with a few Presidents in my time at school, she is the standard... Great for her and terrible for us... Final point, as usual with the astute point explorer88, the ideal that "the ideology worked for La Salle in the 60s and 70s, so it must work now", is still very much alive.. She was a champion willing to make the hard decisions needed to reverse decades worth of bad decisions.. BUT with that, the BOT has a slightly different composition now vs 15-20 years ago.. As someone who has been a noted critic of them over the last decade, they are slowly turning the tide on me.. Some of the new leaders of the Board are of a different cloth than the Board member of years past (think in the past real estate heirs, construction owners vs, now, tech/VC start ups, finance innovators, etc).. Still some work to go but progress is being made... The BOT was able to identify and sign Colleen when she was certainly an outsider candidate compared to say more traditional American University candidates whose experience usually centered around fundraising... I have to hope we are going to able to find a diamond in the rough from one of these smaller schools whose writing on the wall but no fault of their own and with that I pray for the BOT's success.. People can provide opinions without knowing all the details and you are entitled to them.. But I can with full confidence this one hurts.... Xavier making this hire validates the point.. Xavier chooses and takes who they want, they are NOT a receiver institution... And as a whole, the consolidation of the universities will continue.. D2 and D3 schools should be first in a contraction and from there will be the talent pool for La Salle to pick from... |
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Post by calsufan on Jan 11, 2021 13:20:45 GMT -5
so obviously the answer is yes. OK...what was inaccurate of these things? - sports cut - art sold - freshman enrollment at lowest it has been in years - no facilities plan for basketball yet Nice cutting and pasting of what you wanted to say and ignoring the entire post. Here's what I said: "Well I think we disagree on each other's point of view. so obviously the answer is yes. Will I debate point by point with you? No. I simply disagree with you." I'll leave you to debate with yourself. |
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Post by MisterD on Jan 11, 2021 13:22:54 GMT -5
- sports cut - art sold - freshman enrollment at lowest it has been in years - no facilities plan for basketball yet - From the conference high total - No one cares - Macro trends - Is this a La Salle issue or a president issue? |
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jan 11, 2021 13:37:17 GMT -5
- sports cut - art sold - freshman enrollment at lowest it has been in years - no facilities plan for basketball yet - From the conference high total - No one cares - Macro trends - Is this a La Salle issue or a president issue? - tell that to the baseball alums - some people did - evidence of our competitors having all time low enrollment, or just "macro trends" - remind me where the buck stops |
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Post by MisterD on Jan 11, 2021 13:53:17 GMT -5
- I did
- 97% just wanted something to complain about and never stepped foot in the basement museum without being obligated to
- I know you're not good at math, but there are a lot of articles that speak to trends with just words (try the website google dot com)
- This may be the funniest because we all know who, without a donation that covers a bulk of the cost, the first to concern troll where the money would come from is asking this question
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jan 11, 2021 14:02:09 GMT -5
I expect her to be as successful as Ed Croswell is in the Big East.
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