The Houston Baptist University Search Committee of the Board of Trustees recommended the candidacy of Robert B. Sloan, Jr. as President of HBU at a special called meeting held August 1, 2006 on the university campus, according to Ray L. Cox, Jr., Chair of the Board. The Board will reconvene on August 8, 2006 to vote on the recommendation.
Robert Sloan is leaving Baylor
Wednesday August 2, 2006
This just in: Baylor University chancellor Robert Sloan is leaving Baylor to become the next president of Houston Baptist University, pending the expected confirmation of the HBU board next week. You read it here first. From a press release HBU just sent out:
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I had the Spong comment reported to me a month or two ago by a Baylor employee who said he heard it personally, and was taken aback when he did. Take that for what it's worth.>
The word BAPTIST can mean almost anything, from a Baptist like Bill Clinton to Jerry Falwell, from Bill Moyers to the current SBC leadership.
The word has almost no meaning, other than a commitment to individual freedom in all matters of faith.
The Baptist with the votes wins.>
HBU may be exactly what the doctor ordered for President Sloan. I wish him the best and continue to think of him as an immensely talented and compassionate person. However, I am also convinced that he had done all he was capable of doing for Baylor as its leader. Whether you believe in Baptist staples like "God's timing" or more secular pop wisdom like "a change will do you good," you have to agree that President Sloan has much left to give and ought not go quietly into the night.
FTR: According to my sources, the Honors College and other new programs have firmly taken hold and are healthier now than during the Sloan & Jeffrey ministry.
God speed to President Sloan. God Bless Baylor University.>
What a shame. What a shame. But watch to HBU to get a high profile.
I hope 2012 is still alive but there was such animus towards it and towards Dr. Sloan, it makes me wonder.
From a Baylor alumna.>
Kacy's information that Jeffrey was fired fromt he English department is just plain incorrect. The English Department at Baylor is not sufficiently staffed, in part due to the previous financial model that was in place under David Brooks and in part due to contractual limitations on the number of courses and students that could be taught by some of the high-dollar professors brought in recently by Jeffrey as Provost.
The department chairman told Jeffrey that he would, as all the other professors in that department, have to teach additional courses/students. Jeffrey balked at this request (substantially necessitated by his own making) and Dean Hibbs of the Honors College invited him to transfer there. I Guess David wanted to keep his load small in order to spend time with his horses.>
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