What happened to the President search?

Que the Mike Pence speculation

The search seems to be slow after the firing seemed fast. Plenty of rumors that the BOT, or some small part of it, and the Pres had differences.

One rumor is that he was not as respectful of "old Ball State" and the Ball family wishes. Also, the President came from Maine where he had been bullied by the legislature and I suspect he was not very happy with Indiana legislators and ICHE wanting a greater say too. That all seems likely but he must have known that was coming when he took the job and it is hardly something where you can imagine needing immediate action unless the President was just too vocal in his criticism of the powers to be.

Even then, why was the BOT so urgent? Why the sweetheart deal unless they had something they wanted to hide? Even if it was all the Presidents fault and he did something outrageous in the area of pissing off the money?

Apart from the board wanting to top down as usual and the President being sensitive to the political constraints which seem VERY likely true with any President what was going on?

It has to be money. The only concrete thing I have heard about the substantive reasons for displeasure with the President is that he wanted to spend money, we didn't have it, he was complaining about being pushed to do more with less, and the BOT or some small number of them blamed him for everything since he wasn't raising lots of it. Others on the BOT must have disagreed, since otherwise you'd think the action would not be covered up so much.

I think the search is slow mostly because the best candidates are usually other Presidents. It is hard to see a sitting President leaving in the middle of an academic year, and awfully hard to imagine the search concluded before school starts this Fall. So, it therefore seems that a search has to be very slow and not fill the position until Spring.   Seems to me the likely course.

Or.

Maybe we can do it faster if we seek out private sector candidates like Purdue did with Mitch (hey, the Koch's probably could help us out with a candidate?) or, maybe we are looking at a Provost or other academic who has not served as a President. Seems unlikely we would have made that decision in advance, though. And we are a tough enough job to imagine taking on somebody OJT. Well, unless we are headed for a private sector or politician candidate being quickly chosen, and all the talk about transparency was really a joke then, since that would be a mild surprise at the least.

That no experience Provost possibility seems especially unlikely since the job of President is largely to raise money and to lobby the legislature, and a Provost is unlikely to have that much experience in fund raising, or high level politics.

Anyway, since the legislature is asleep for a year anyway and the search seems likely to be slow, it is really puzzling why the firing was so quick.

Lighten up halftime.  The whole Koch thing is a tempest in the teapot, the greater political issue is the legislature trying to dictate good educational policy by making BSU a trade school, a glorified community college.  That is a real threat.

Because they're not George Soros.

Or any other far-left radical on the approved donor list of the academic world.

Yeah well after spending all of 30 seconds perusing the "Center for Public Integrity" website you linked I can clearly see that isn't the best place to get an unbiased non-political viewpoint. Next time why don't you just justify your rambling explanation by linking to ihatecapitalism.com or peoplewithmoneysuck.com.

"Never knew why internships and many other traditional business education practices did not qualify..."

Probably because running copies, filing papers, and getting lunch for some guy at an insurance agency isn't really academics. Although it probably isn't as worthless as say taking a business law class where the professor smells like an ashtray, and drones on and on about the history of something that has nothing to do with the question asked.

Internships doing copying should not earn credit. Good internship requires students to do real work and to be able to relate it to their major.

Still don't know what immersive is and why glorified group project is better than actually going to work.