tl20021017-000 "The TOLUDrii hb Baltimore's #1 College Paper - Published Twice-Weekly - www.thetowerlight.com Thursday, 10/17/02 Daycare Center has anniversary 5 Blood drive ends short of intention 8 Oktoberfest to attract students 'Ring' delivers chills and thrills 23 Departments News 5 Police Blotter 8 Arts 12 In A Theater Near You 13 High Road 15 Sports 20 Punt, Pass & Pick 18 In This Corner 20 Classifieds 17 Opinion 2 Consultant challenged on past Some call Greenwood a 'con artist' while others say she's a successful 'visionary' Mike Morris The Towerlight Towson's director of gerontology, Donna Wagner, would love to dis-cuss Jan Greenwood, lead consult-ant for Towson's presidential search firm, but she is not allowed to � legally. As former president of a faculty union at the University of Bridgeport, located 55 miles from New York City in Fairfield County, Conn., Wagner signed a federal court order in 1992 forbidding her to talk about Greenwood, president of UB from 1987 to 1991. Greenwood, who currently serves as vice president of A.T. Kearney Executive Search, based in Arlington, Va., is working to recruit presidential candidates for Towson. She views her experience as a uni-versity president, both at UB and Longwood College in Farmville, Va., as an asset when assisting presiden-tial committees such as Towson's in finding top-level administrators. ""Knowing higher education helps,"" Greenwood said from a pay phone last week between flights at a Jackson, Miss., airport. ""[Having been a university president] aids in the process of finding a president. You know the market. You know the faculty. Having been there and done that, I know the skills needed to get the job done."" But in September 1990, UB facul-ty members were asked to sustain a salary cut of as much as 30 percent, which prompted the longest and most bitter faculty strike in the histo-ry of American higher education, lasting from 1990- 1992. In addition to the pay cuts, Greenwood tried to secretly sell the financially struggling institution to the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon, commonly known as Lisa Johnson The Towerbght Dr. Jan Greenwood, vice president of A.T. Kearney Executive Search and lead consultant to TU's presidential search committee, speaks with community leaders at a forum held on campus last month in the University Union. the "" Moon ies. "" In the fall of 1991, news leaked to the public before the deal was sealed, causing a public uproar, according to media reports at the time. The idea was put on hold and Greenwood shortly resigned after the president of the UB Bar Association called for her dismissal. ""When I first got there that place was going down fast,"" Greenwood said of UB. She added that her past is irrelevant and has nothing to do ""I am not supportive of a search firm that is headed by a person who is passionately committed to a closed search."" Clarinda Harriss English chairperson with TU's current search. Former University President Hoke Smith, a longtime friend of Greenwood's, agrees that her past is not pertinent. ""Jan is recognized as a good con-sultant in the field,"" Smith said Wednesday from a Denver hotel on his way back to Maryland after con-ducting studies at Montana State University. James Clements, chair of Towson's presidential search com-mittee, said the group was aware of Greenwood's problematic past, however, he says her firm has stellar credentials and is pleased with the work she is doing. ""We're not hiring her to be our next president. We're hiring her to find our next president,"" Clements said. ""We know her background. We didn't hire her for that. She may or may not have been the best presi-dent in the history of U.S. higher education."" Ups and downs Last weekend about 40 UB facul-ty members had a reunion to cele-brate the 10th anniversary since the settlement of their two-year strike. Part of that resolution mandated that all striking faculty members, including Wagner, sign legal docu- See GREENWOOD, page 7 Today High 59 Low 42 Friday High 57 Low 38 Saturday High 59 Low 42 Sunday High 61 Low 46 Monday High 59 Low 47 "
