I don't know anything about the search but my immediate reaction is a big fat "meh"

(04-02-2013 01:04 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  Oh for the love of GOD he is from Idaho???

SMH


Doug Baker
http://www.uidaho.edu/provost/about/biography


Reading that bio I am very disappointed. Can anyone find something a bit better on this guy?

http://presidentialsearch.unm.edu/baker-cv.pdf


1973-1975 Attended The Ohio State University

How do you know he is not a good hire! you guys are all negative!

I hope this is not the same Doug Baker.

http://www.dfi.wa.gov/sd/orders/s-04-240-04-sc01.pdf

I guess his best selling point is his background in business as it pertains to a college within a university. Hopefully he continues upon our great COB, but like I said before doesn't seem like a top notch candidate.

I have no opinion either way but I do find it funny that we ended up hiring someone from Idaho. The NIU-Idaho connection continues. Hooray.

(04-02-2013 01:13 PM)HuskieJWN Wrote:  I guess his best selling point is his background in business as it pertains to a college within a university. Hopefully he continues upon our great COB, but like I said before doesn't seem like a top notch candidate.

Thought the same thing.

This board always starts negative. Listen to what he has to say!!!!

(04-02-2013 01:18 PM)NorthHuskie Wrote:  This board always starts negative. Listen to what he has to say!!!!

I can't I dont have speakers...

Baker: "NIU's big enough to matter, but small enough to care about the students that it serves."

Well at least he mentioned the Orange Bowl and football.

Baker: NIU must not rely on state funding--needs new financial plan.

(04-02-2013 01:21 PM)HuskiePride12 Wrote:  Well at least he mentioned the Orange Bowl and football.

Ok...that is a good sign...more please!

Baker on the Orange Bowl: That was fun, we should do that again some time

Tweet from @Daily_Chronicle

(04-02-2013 01:22 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  Baker: NIU must not rely on state funding--needs new financial plan.

That is true. Grants and Athletics can get us there.

http://www.niutoday.info/2013/04/02/doug...president/

His accomplishments there have included:

Leading strategic-planning efforts that set institutional goals and helped eliminate a long-standing fiscal deficit.

Overseeing a collaborative academic-program prioritization process that created a stronger and more efficient institution.

Hiring more than 15 senior leaders (including six deans in two years) to build a strong, cohesive administrative team.

Creating and staffing a university enrollment management system.

Instituting a focus on student retention that resulted in a significant increase in freshman-to-sophomore retention.

Upside: He doesn't seem like someone who would go against the grain re athletics.

Wish he seemed more energetic. We need someone to get that endowment going...

Seems like he has the tools you want in a university president. The official press package HJ linked sells him well.

well if he does not realize that a very good football team is good for donations then he is an idiot. Yordon and Chessick donations were generated by the success of the football team.