+1.IPSY1975 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 1:56 pm Some good Posts here especially by HFO who describes LU resting on its laurels. We need to move into the 21st Century and become a Top 300 University worldwide by offering online courses for a Certificate like Carnegie Mellon and Penn. Increase your exposure/reputation to thousands of students worldwide.
And yes, redo Board of Trustees as well. That way we avoid throwing money into bad programs like School of Health. We need CEOs bus leaders Lehigh grads armed with critical thinking. What about Charlie Dent? I see him on CNN all the time. I am not trying to get political, but when you google Lehigh it shows him as famous grad. My only dispute with HFO post is timing of TG dismissal which should be quicker ...pay the bums severance . Its not going be like Nick Saban lmao.
What do LUEngineer and Rich H see in these players that make them believe they are talented? Which players are those? The best player QB Bessmer went via Transfer portal thanks to this Coach and his problems!! IMO TG has done a very bad job of recruiting. LUFAN is spot on TG probably not very well liked by the players but now he needs them. With the debacle unfolding it will turn off too many potential student athletes . So you have to let Gilmore go effective 11/22/21. That's sending a better message and gives new kids a fresh start. Then say goodbye to Sterrett the end of 2022 school year.
Putting football aside for the moment to talk about the other issues you mentioned- Lehigh should ALSO have/be investing more in existing programs where it had/ has some relative strengths that were not fully developed.
This is going to roll some eyes but as an example, the former (and maybe still current) chair of the international relations department was White House staff. He was published. He had real world experience; appeared somewhat frequently as a guest analyst on cable news; and was widely known and respected in the field.
There was also a pols professor who was undervalued and left to take a fellowship at PRINCETON where he published and taught for a few years before moving to BC to start a center on Constitutional Law/Development, etc. For anyone not familiar with the field, the guy’s name is known and respected nationally- for academic reasons rather than political ones.
The hard sciences will always be the bread and butter but there is no reason Lehigh cannot and should not have more like Charlie Dent graduate from its ranks and leading in government, philanthropy, public policy, economics etc.
Lehigh could be unique in the patriot league by being strong in both hard science and soft science and some very specific other fields that are translatable to non-engineering/business careers that are value added to the school.
The problem is the admin has been more preoccupied with optics than education so if the investment didn’t further the image of their wannabe ivy narrative, they skipped it.
I’m screaming into the wind, I know.