The board recently hired The Hollins Group, a search firm from Chicago, to find a permanent president by August 2007.
That’s still slower than some believe it should happen.
“They’ve been working as a go-slow approach,” Tucker says. “I still think there’s efforts to slow it down. [The board] wants to keep Castell Bryant in there longer than some of us want.”
And as damaging stories about the university’s inadequacies continue to surface, student enrollment continues to fall. The incoming class for the fall of 2005 was 12,187 students, down from 13,063 at the same time in 2004. Tucker says he believes there are still more than 10,000 students at the university, “but with so much uncertainty, I don’t know.”
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