March 15, 20241 yr 8 hours ago, Dougal said: She's in a CEO equivalent job. With less than two years in the job she publicly announced that she had applied to work elsewhere. At the CEO level, that is a bridge-burning move. Then she gets turned down and says oops she'll stay after all. That makes her a joke. That is not what CSU needs to grow into a top tier school. Five-year contract? The board should be prepared to buy out the last two and start the search for a new president now. I've heard from some department heads at CSU that she's been a HUGE improvement over the last president and they are really happy that CSU was able to retain someone of her caliber. Seems to me that her "dream job" opened up and she had to apply because such opportunities are rare. That one attempt to level up shouldn't be a dealbreaker that prevents her from doing her job. If the senior leadership supports her and her mission, there's no loss of confidence or momentum that would justify the Board going to the (very big) effort to seek a replacement.
March 15, 20241 yr I've never been special enough to work under a long term contract like that, so I just have the plebe's understanding ofsuch things- that the contract is an agreement to be there for the whole 5 years. It's easy to forget that for wealthy and powerful people that agreements mean nothing.
February 1Feb 1 Quote Virginia Benson, who helped preserve historic buildings in Cleveland and develop its waterfront, dies at 88 Published: Jan. 31, 2025, 10:29 a.m. CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Audience members at the Allen Theatre in Playhouse Square might be taken aback by the beauty and splendor of the space. What they don’t know is that the property might have been a barren parking lot were it not for the work of Virginia Benson. “She was very involved in saving the Allen Theatre,” said her colleague, Kathleen Crowther. “It was a group effort but she was a key person.” Benson, a college professor and preservationist, died Jan. 20 at the age of 88. The cause of death was respiratory failure. This maybe could have gone a few places, but I knew her as one of my favorite professors at Levin College, so I'll put it here.
February 10Feb 10 Big loss for CSU -- law school dean leaving for Presidency of Baldwin Wallace: Quote Baldwin Wallace University has announced the appointment of former Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher as its 10th president. https://www.cleveland.com/business/2025/02/baldwin-wallace-university-appoints-former-lieutenant-governor-as-president.html
February 11Feb 11 On 2/10/2025 at 12:17 PM, Foraker said: Big loss for CSU -- law school dean leaving for Presidency of Baldwin Wallace: https://www.cleveland.com/business/2025/02/baldwin-wallace-university-appoints-former-lieutenant-governor-as-president.html Given CSU's instability I don't them.
February 12Feb 12 4 hours ago, MyPhoneDead said: Given CSU's instability I don't them. I suppose you might have a point. But the law school has been a success -- growing its ranks and pulling in significant donations. One of the bright spots for our urban university.
February 12Feb 12 12 hours ago, Foraker said: I suppose you might have a point. But the law school has been a success -- growing its ranks and pulling in significant donations. One of the bright spots for our urban university. That's true but moving from a Dean to a President (even if the school is small) is an opportunity that doesn't present itself often. It's like a Coordinator from a Super Bowl winning team leaving to become a head coach for a terrible NFL team, the opportunity doesn't come around often.
February 12Feb 12 1 hour ago, MyPhoneDead said: That's true but moving from a Dean to a President (even if the school is small) is an opportunity that doesn't present itself often. It's like a Coordinator from a Super Bowl winning team leaving to become a head coach for a terrible NFL team, the opportunity doesn't come around often. Absolutely -- and that opportunity has nothing to do with instability at CSU.
February 12Feb 12 On 2/10/2025 at 12:17 PM, Foraker said: Big loss for CSU -- law school dean leaving for Presidency of Baldwin Wallace: https://www.cleveland.com/business/2025/02/baldwin-wallace-university-appoints-former-lieutenant-governor-as-president.html Wonder why Landslide Lee's skills and polical rolodex are sought by the BW Board to address BW's financial woes but not used by the CSU Trustees for the same while he was on campus.
February 13Feb 13 16 hours ago, Willo said: Wonder why Landslide Lee's skills and polical rolodex are sought by the BW Board to address BW's financial woes but not used by the CSU Trustees for the same while he was on campus. Namecalling isn't warranted here. Just because he wants a new challenge doesn't mean CSU didn't value him. Nor is the insinuation that he wasn't impactful at CSU. As Dean of the law school Lee Fischer has been a successful fundraiser while also raising the school's profile from 127th to 103rd in US News rankings, and increasing enrollment from 381 in 2017-2018 to 532 in 2024-2025. Consider the competition for law students and dollars in this region, with Case having a far higher reputation (around 80th in US News rankings) and Akron just down the road. Whatever his politics before he became Dean, he appears to have been a positive for CSU and their law school.
February 17Feb 17 On 2/13/2025 at 10:44 AM, Foraker said: Namecalling isn't warranted here. Just because he wants a new challenge doesn't mean CSU didn't value him. Nor is the insinuation that he wasn't impactful at CSU. As Dean of the law school Lee Fischer has been a successful fundraiser while also raising the school's profile from 127th to 103rd in US News rankings, and increasing enrollment from 381 in 2017-2018 to 532 in 2024-2025. Consider the competition for law students and dollars in this region, with Case having a far higher reputation (around 80th in US News rankings) and Akron just down the road. Whatever his politics before he became Dean, he appears to have been a positive for CSU and their law school. Relax, was not meant as name-calling for us senior-seasoned citizens who know of his long career where he even embraced the playful name. Also there was no attack made on the law school so not sure why the detour down that rabbit hole. We were only wondering why the CSU Board didn't recognize his valuable life-long Statehouse rolodex at a time our beloved CSU stares down uncertainty.
February 17Feb 17 1 hour ago, Willo said: We were only wondering why the CSU Board didn't recognize his valuable life-long Statehouse rolodex at a time our beloved CSU stares down uncertainty. Maybe they did. Pure speculation -- maybe CSU was really happy to have him rebuild and strengthen the law school, but were leary of promoting him to lead the university -- maybe someone in state government warned them about hiring a strong Democrat as the leader of a state institution in a strongly partisan Republican state. A private school like BW wouldn't have that same issue.
February 17Feb 17 https://www.crainscleveland.com/education/cleveland-area-colleges-report-steady-spring-enrollment Northeast Ohio colleges notch a crucial win in spring enrollment numbers I'll break this down on a uni-by-uni basis: TL;DR Case Western Reserve University No total enrollment given in article but 2024 TOT 12,475 ( 1.70% increase from 2023, from CWRU website) Cleveland State University 13,388 TOT (0.87% increase from 2024, 5% higher than 2025 budget projections which actually projected a decrease in enrollment) Kent State University 31,631 TOT (1.3% increase from 2024) University of Akron 13,923 TOT (no increase given) John Carroll University 2,596 TOT (2% increase from 2024) Baldwin Wallace University 2,739 UG (highest since 2019) Gannon University, Ursuline College 938 TOT (12.2% increase in graduate students from fall semester) Lake Erie College 1,180 TOT (28.82% increase from 2024) Long story short, numbers are flat or up across the board here which is a nice thing to see given the college climate, and CSU is outperforming expectations
May 9May 9 https://www.crainscleveland.com/nonprofits-philanthropy/cleveland-state-receives-15-million-walter-mccombsCleveland State receives largest individual donation in school history
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