What a crappy little nothing institution UNO must be to even consider such a decrepit, useless old empty shell for a leadership position:
NEW ORLEANS (WANE) - IPFW Chancellor Michael Wartell is among five semi-finalist for the presidency at the University of New Orleans.
According to the Associated Press, Wartell was picked from 12 applicants by a search committee Tuesday.
Wartell must retire by July 1, 2012 according to Purdue University policy that restricts the age of high-level administrators and policy-makers. A search committee has already been formed to find his replacement, despite the faculty senate at IPFW voting to keep Wartell as president.
Did not think it was possible Purdue could seem any lamer for its grotesque mandatory retirement program. I stand corrected.
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The president at a private college is generally a glad-hander and fund-raiser. It's the academic dean that runs the educational program, and the dean of students that manages most everything else concerning students, and usually there is someone else in charge of operation of the physical plant, so that the president is free to speechify, to rub shoulders, and to beg.
UNO is a state college, not a private school, but I suspect there's not that much difference in what the president does. He's a salesman, not an administrator, nor an educator. Good salesmen don't come cheap. The larger 501(c) organizations are going to be competing for them, and this is probably the best they can get.