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Administration changes?

Posted: August 15th, 2019, 7:52 pm
by rogers3
Has anybody heard about some personnel changes in the administration? Heard some rumors...

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 15th, 2019, 9:02 pm
by Purple Haize
Tell us more.....

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 15th, 2019, 9:46 pm
by rogers3
Purple Haize wrote: August 15th, 2019, 9:02 pm Tell us more.....
Won't do that, but I expect some kind of change soon. I'm sure there is someone on here who might share.

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 16th, 2019, 11:31 am
by thepostman
I've heard rumblings but nothing remotely confirmed so I hesitate to post it publicly but it would be odd if this was indeed happening considering this person just joined the school's administration earlier this year.

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 16th, 2019, 11:49 am
by LU 57
If I am thinking of who you are referring to, that person is not currently listed in the online directory.

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 16th, 2019, 1:03 pm
by ballah09
is this good or bad?

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 16th, 2019, 1:18 pm
by thepostman
I don't know the details but this individual hasn't been in this position for very long so it is more odd than anything. I am sure others on the board know where more than I do but for the sake of privacy probably won't say much.

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 16th, 2019, 1:57 pm
by chris leedlelee
Does this refer to the athletic administration? Or academic?

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 16th, 2019, 2:02 pm
by thepostman
What I have been talking about is academic related. I am guessing that is what everybody else is talking about too since this thread was started in the Lynchburg life forum. Anybody who has more concrete info and is free to share feel free to do so.

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 16th, 2019, 2:49 pm
by prototype
I have heard General Young is stepping down and Dr. Borek is taking his place. Dr. Godwin is set to assume a new role and Anthony Beckles is set to return as CFO...

Could all be rumors...

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 16th, 2019, 2:53 pm
by ATrain
I know nothing - however, the most high profile person to be added to the faculty/academic administration roster this year is former US Representative Dave Brat

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 19th, 2019, 12:22 am
by Just John
prototype wrote: August 16th, 2019, 2:49 pm I have heard General Young is stepping down and Dr. Borek is taking his place. Dr. Godwin is set to assume a new role and Anthony Beckles is set to return as CFO...

Could all be rumors...
I assume this is not Ron “Godwin”. I Would be shocked if he ever had a position at LU again.

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 20th, 2019, 2:13 pm
by rhezick
So... what are the rumors?? Kind of the point of a forum...spill!

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 20th, 2019, 8:44 pm
by rogers3
rhezick wrote: August 20th, 2019, 2:13 pm So... what are the rumors?? Kind of the point of a forum...spill!
Can't...too close to home.

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 20th, 2019, 8:57 pm
by thepostman
All i know is there will be a new provost soon but I know very little about it so your guess is a good as mine.

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 20th, 2019, 10:31 pm
by rogers3
thepostman wrote: August 20th, 2019, 8:57 pm All i know is there will be a new provost soon but I know very little about it so your guess is a good as mine.
That is related to what I have heard, for sure.

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 21st, 2019, 6:42 am
by Purple Haize

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 22nd, 2019, 8:44 am
by ALUmnus
What was the point of this thread again?

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 23rd, 2019, 7:59 am
by LUAlum1215
Not necessarily administration so to speak, but Len Stevens has taken a job as Co-anchor with WFXR news in Roanoke. Haven’t seen anything official that he left LU, but one has to think it would be near impossible to do both.

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 23rd, 2019, 2:23 pm
by flamehunter
LUAlum1215 wrote: August 23rd, 2019, 7:59 am Not necessarily administration so to speak, but Len Stevens has taken a job as Co-anchor with WFXR news in Roanoke. Haven’t seen anything official that he left LU, but one has to think it would be near impossible to do both.
He's no longer with Liberty. Rumor is he was let go.

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 23rd, 2019, 2:24 pm
by LUAlum1215
flamehunter wrote: August 23rd, 2019, 2:23 pm
LUAlum1215 wrote: August 23rd, 2019, 7:59 am Not necessarily administration so to speak, but Len Stevens has taken a job as Co-anchor with WFXR news in Roanoke. Haven’t seen anything official that he left LU, but one has to think it would be near impossible to do both.
He's no longer with Liberty. Rumor is he was let go.
I heard that about 30 minutes after I posted

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 23rd, 2019, 2:48 pm
by givemethemic
Good. He sucked at his job! ESPN wanted an interview and I was the point person on it for them a couple of years ago.

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 24th, 2019, 10:05 pm
by Just John
flamehunter wrote: August 23rd, 2019, 2:23 pm
LUAlum1215 wrote: August 23rd, 2019, 7:59 am Not necessarily administration so to speak, but Len Stevens has taken a job as Co-anchor with WFXR news in Roanoke. Haven’t seen anything official that he left LU, but one has to think it would be near impossible to do both.
He's no longer with Liberty. Rumor is he was let go.
If he was the "spokesmen" in the story quoted below from Higher Ed Journal he deserved to be fired.


By 2017, the Rawlings School of Divinity’s enrollment had dropped to 13,688 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students, or 15.8 percent of Liberty’s online enrollment.

Reached by telephone after being presented with those figures Friday, a Liberty spokesman said they were inaccurate. He said he had nothing “quotable” to offer in an interview. Inside Higher Ed informed him that the conversation was on the record. The spokesman reiterated that the numbers were not correct.

“You can publish them, and the day after you publish them, we’ll let the world know your enrollment numbers aren’t correct,” he said. “You might want to go back to your source and say, ‘Button down your numbers.’”

Inside Higher Ed had not disclosed the source of the information. The enrollment figures came from annual disclosure reports Liberty is required to file for bondholders who lent the university money, including through tax-exempt bonds issued through a state agency in 2010. The introductions to the reports bear the signature of Liberty’s senior vice president of finance.

In a telephone interview later, Falwell and several other administrators acknowledged the statistics as correct.
Dumb!

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 25th, 2019, 1:08 pm
by rogers3
Just John wrote: August 24th, 2019, 10:05 pm
flamehunter wrote: August 23rd, 2019, 2:23 pm
LUAlum1215 wrote: August 23rd, 2019, 7:59 am Not necessarily administration so to speak, but Len Stevens has taken a job as Co-anchor with WFXR news in Roanoke. Haven’t seen anything official that he left LU, but one has to think it would be near impossible to do both.
He's no longer with Liberty. Rumor is he was let go.
If he was the "spokesmen" in the story quoted below from Higher Ed Journal he deserved to be fired.


By 2017, the Rawlings School of Divinity’s enrollment had dropped to 13,688 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students, or 15.8 percent of Liberty’s online enrollment.

Reached by telephone after being presented with those figures Friday, a Liberty spokesman said they were inaccurate. He said he had nothing “quotable” to offer in an interview. Inside Higher Ed informed him that the conversation was on the record. The spokesman reiterated that the numbers were not correct.

“You can publish them, and the day after you publish them, we’ll let the world know your enrollment numbers aren’t correct,” he said. “You might want to go back to your source and say, ‘Button down your numbers.’”

Inside Higher Ed had not disclosed the source of the information. The enrollment figures came from annual disclosure reports Liberty is required to file for bondholders who lent the university money, including through tax-exempt bonds issued through a state agency in 2010. The introductions to the reports bear the signature of Liberty’s senior vice president of finance.

In a telephone interview later, Falwell and several other administrators acknowledged the statistics as correct.
Dumb!
Since when have people in the Admin spoken independently? If Len said that, he likely was told to say much the same. When I read the comment, it sounded like the words of a specific person in the Admin that was not Len.

Re: Administration changes?

Posted: August 25th, 2019, 1:26 pm
by Just John
I'm hearing what you are saying. :wink: