I see Dr. Hebert was hired at Louisiana to become Vice President and Provost. Any comments on Dr. Hebert from the Georgia Southern contingency? I assume he wanted to come home and be near family.

https://www.louisiana.edu/news-events/ne...ew-provost

(05-29-2018 01:30 PM)CW Fishman Wrote:  I see Dr. Hebert was hired at Louisiana to become Vice President and Provost. Any comments on Dr. Hebert from the Georgia Southern contingency? I assume he wanted to come home and be near family.

https://www.louisiana.edu/news-events/ne...ew-provost

From my understanding, the GA BOR played the shell game on him.

I don't think he was aware that GS and Armstrong would be merging and that would place him over 3 campuses:
1. Main Statesboro Campus
2. Savannah - Armstrong Campus
3. tiny Liberty Campus

I don't blame him for bailing

(05-29-2018 01:30 PM)CW Fishman Wrote:  I see Dr. Hebert was hired at Louisiana to become Vice President and Provost. Any comments on Dr. Hebert from the Georgia Southern contingency? I assume he wanted to come home and be near family.

https://www.louisiana.edu/news-events/ne...ew-provost

The biggest reason seen by GS fans for Dr. Hebert leaving Statesboro is that he was blindsided by the Georgia Board of Regents right after he took the job with the consolation of Georgia Southern and Armstrong dropped squarely on his shoulders.

(05-29-2018 01:30 PM)CW Fishman Wrote:  I see Dr. Hebert was hired at Louisiana to become Vice President and Provost. Any comments on Dr. Hebert from the Georgia Southern contingency? I assume he wanted to come home and be near family.

https://www.louisiana.edu/news-events/ne...ew-provost

I liked Hebert a lot. I thought he was a great fit for Georgia Southern and understood the culture of the university very well. Unfortunately as it's been said, the merger made the job twice as tough and living apart from his family and home made it even tougher. I'm glad he was able to return to his alma mater. I just hope we don't get screwed on the next one to take the job.

He handled the consolidation like a champ. The hard part is over, it should be downhill from here.

(05-29-2018 01:52 PM)rokamortis Wrote:  He handled the consolidation like a champ. The hard part is over, it should be downhill from here.

Unfortunately, he came to Georgia Southern expecting to oversee a single campus of 20k. Then he found out he actually was going to be in charge of 3 campuses of 28k students, and he was going to be the figure head in charge of the whole process.

He basically had just gotten his name plate on the office door when the BOR said "Hey we need you to go to Armstrong University in Savannah and tell the whole student body that you're taking their school away and cancelling their athletics in person." I would have left too.

As far as it being downhill, Hebert attended and spoke at 3 separate graduation ceremonies in a span of two days on campuses an hour apart from each other this past semester. It's those kind of things the new job demands that make the "downhill" part not so steep.

I hope whoever we get next is both up to the task and understands the culture like Hebert did.

How much was Hebert paid at GS before and after the merger?