(From the Missouri Southern State University's Public Relations Department)Following what Missouri Southern State University Board of Governors Chair Dr. Sherry L. Buchanan characterized as a “positive, forward-looking discussion and evaluation of the President,” Dr. Bruce Speck’s contract as President was extended for one additional year.
The president’s contract now extends through June 2013.
“The terms of the contract are the same terms and conditions as the existing contract,” Dr. Buchanan stated. Dr. Speck’s salary will remain unchanged.
The president’s annual evaluation conducted in executive session came after the Board’s regular meeting held Thursday, June 16.
Following the closed session, Board members noted the University’s positive role in recent disaster recovery efforts, and significant and positive progress related to the institution’s strategic planning and shared governance initiatives.
The Board also noted Dr. Speck’s leadership by building strong student support systems, developing campus leadership programs, and encouraging innovative learning strategies through online programs and other means, as well as his management of the budget despite unprecedented economic constraints and state budget cuts.
“Dr. Speck’s leadership and community involvement have benefited the campus, but those attributes were critical to support disaster recovery efforts by the University over the last few weeks,” stated Dr. Buchanan. "In addition, the President and his team have effectively managed the unprecedented budget challenges.”
“The bottom line is that Dr. Speck has met the expectations of the Board,” Dr. Buchanan stated. “His goals to continue to build a University that serves the long-term interests of the students, the community, the region and the State of Missouri, and to promote the high quality education available at Missouri Southern are the goals of the Board. We are looking to the future and we believe Dr. Speck is providing solid and steady leadership,” the Board Chair said.
The Board annually reviews the performance of the President.
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Speck can credit the Joplin tornado for saving his presidency. It has diverted all the attention away from his many shortcomings.
ReplyDeleteIn your face, anti-Speckerheads!
ReplyDeleteAn amoeba could meet the expectations of that board.
ReplyDeleteBruce Speck is a dildo
ReplyDeleteboard of governors are dildoes too. what a sorry bunch.
ReplyDeleteJay Nixon is partly to blame. he allowed Anderson and McGinty to continue on the board after their terms expired. I suppose he'll allow Douglas and Jones to continue as well. Unless Ron Richard does something about it. But he'll probably put some of his cronies on the board (like Nodler did). politics has ruined Moso.
It would seem that Speck has efficiently done what the Board of Governors wanted done: Efficiently run on diminished state budgets Missouri Southern.
ReplyDeleteThis is no longer the 1990s or the early part of the new century. Even in the 1990s there was grumbling about how Julio Leon was building and building for the sake of size what was meant to be nothing more than a local college in Southwestern Missouri and how Leon would come begging for more than what Missouri Southern was by rights to receive.
Speck was chosen to run MSSU far more efficiently and end mission creep in an era of diminished ability to spend and waste money. Speck understands that his bosses who evaluate his job performance are not liberal whiners who cannot wrap their puny minds around the fact that the budgetary cupboards are increasingly bare and that MSSU is going to have to be run on reduced rations. Speck's bosses are not even the Board of Governors, but rather their bosses who have told them that they don't care how Speck does it, MSSU will have to do more with less, something Julio Leon might have said that he understood, but refused to practice.
Since Speck obeyed his masters who hold the purse strings, they gave Speck another year contract and will continue to do so as long as Speck continues to do as Speck is told. They don't care how Speck does it just so long as Speck continues to tighten the belt some more.
So, ditto on the "In your face, anti-Speckerheads" by Anonymous 9:56 am.
It would seem that Speck has efficiently done what the Board of Governors wanted done: Efficiently run on diminished state budgets Missouri Southern.
ReplyDeleteThis is no longer the 1990s or the early part of the new century. Even in the 1990s there was grumbling about how Julio Leon was building and building for the sake of size what was meant to be nothing more than a local college in Southwestern Missouri and how Leon would come begging for more than what Missouri Southern was by rights to receive.
Speck was chosen to run MSSU far more efficiently and end mission creep in an era of diminished ability to spend and waste money. Speck understands that his bosses who evaluate his job performance are not liberal whiners who cannot wrap their puny minds around the fact that the budgetary cupboards are increasingly bare and that MSSU is going to have to be run on reduced rations. Speck's bosses are not even the Board of Governors, but rather their bosses who have told them that they don't care how Speck does it, MSSU will have to do more with less, something Julio Leon might have said that he understood, but refused to practice.
Since Speck obeyed his masters who hold the purse strings, they gave Speck another year contract and will continue to do so as long as Speck continues to do as Speck is told. They don't care how Speck does it just so long as Speck continues to tighten the belt some more.
So, ditto on the "In your face, anti-Speckerheads" by Anonymous 9:56 am.