The Journal

Issue date: 2/12/09 Section: News

be tasked with acclimating
Stroble to the position he was
vying for, as she acquaints herself
with campus and moves
into the Loretto Hall executive
office - which George never
chose to occupy during his
stint as interim president.
However, George said Tuesday
he was excited to start
the job.
" W e ' r e
genu i ne ly
l o o k i n g
f o r w a r d
to working
with
each other,"
he said
of Stroble.
"There's plenty
of work for both of us."
The president's workload
increased with the university's
size during former president
Richard Meyers' 14-year tenure,
and necessitated the creation
of the chancellor position,
George said.
"The needs of an organization
change as it evolves. The
changes (at WU) prompted the
board to think of a chancellor
position to work on these
changes with the president,"
George said, adding that the position is "strategic" and "warranted" by university policy.
Glotzbach similarly compared WU to a corporation.
"This is a restructuring of the leadership of the university that mirrors the university's changes," Glotzbach said. "It's like what you do for a corporation - changing
products, customers."
Students React
During Stroble's January campus visit, students asked the candidate about involvement in campus life, and she promised to make a "purposeful effort" to attend student activities if selected as president. Now that she finds herself in that position, WU students are expecting her to follow through on
her pledge.
"I'm really excited…She's student-friendly," said Elizabeth Eisele, graduate assistant in Student Activities and management and leadership major. "She'll do a great job."
WU students had a voice in the presidential selection process since it began in April 2008. The search committee selected Lauren Meyer, now a junior business major, Luis Blanco, a graduate student in business administration, and Jerrell Sherman, a graduate advertising and marketing student, to act as student representatives on
the committee.
Though they had already known which candidate the committee recommended to the board of trustees, Meyer and Blanco expressed satisfaction with the board's decision when it was made public Tuesday.
"The student voice was more than adequately represented," Meyer said. "The committee took what students had to say very, very seriously. Our voice was very much heard."
The student representatives listened to varied viewpoints from the student body, including students from international campuses, Blanco said. As part of the opinion gathering process, Blanco, Meyer and Sherman conducted a survey of 200 students and presented the results to the Student Government Association in December to solicit feedback.

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