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Sioux. Falls, SD Volume 69, Number 23 May 1, 1986 Takes on new role William Nelson Fuiure Site Health, Physical Education and Recreation Building and related playing fields Made possible by college friends participating in the Commitment to Excellence and Fellows Project #12 campaigns ■ ugustana College Sioux Falls South Dakota 57197 Photo by Christy Schmidtke This sign on the corner of 33rd and Grange was put up in anticipation of ground-breaking ceremonies this spring. The Augustana Board of Regents decided over the weekend that more funds neededto be raised before approval would be given. Nelsen resigns as president Karin Bumgardner assistant editor Augustana President William C. Nelsen announced his resignation Wednesday, effec-tive as soon as an acting presi-dent can be named following graduation ceremonies in May. Nelsen will then begin a new full-time position as chancellor of fund raising at Augustana. President for the past six years, Nelsen said the move was mutually decided upon by the Board of Regents and himself last weekend. Part of the Regents' weekend involved an evaluation of Nelsen under-taken every six years by the Board. "The Board and I have evaluated where I can best be helpful in this cause and have concluded that such a move would allow a maximum fund raising effort on my part while allowing an acting president to give attention to the day-to-day management of the college," Nelsen said. Nelsen offered three reasons for his "intense personal move" — to assist in development ef-forts; to assist more directly in obtaining funds for the propos-ed HPER complex; and to allow the new president to attend to daily college matters. Nelsen's main new respon-sibilities are tied to the Commit-ment to Excellence Campaign, begun last April and scheduled to continue until June 30, 1987. The campaign's three fund raising goals include the HPER complex (see related article on same page), a Lutheran Brotherhood scholarship challenge grant, and a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. `Pledged HPER funds total $3.3 million, $2.2 million short of planned total costs. The $900,000 Lutheran Brotherhood grant, due June 30, has thirty percent of its funds left fo raise. The NEH grant has raised $1.1 million of the $1.2 million needed. It is due July 31. Nelsen's new position is tem-porary, and tentatively schedul-ed to be eliminated upon com-pletion of the campaign's fund raising. Contacted at his home in Ap-pleton, Wisc., Richard Gunder-son, chairman of the Augustana Board of Regents, commented on the presidential evaluation procedure. "We evaluate and discuss the future of our college presidents like you do with any organization," Gunderson said. "We talked with Bill (Nelsen) early in '86 and late '85. We wanted to discuss issues on his future and the college's future." Listed on the Board's agenda for two months, Nelsen's evaluation was discussed by the Board with three specific op-tions available — reappointing Nelsen for another six-year term (by-laws don't necessarily mandate another six-year ap-pointment), reappointing Nelsen for a two-to-three-year term, and the chancellor posi-tion. Gunderson said an acting president will be appointed as soon as possible after the May 25 commencement and a search committee will be announced. "I'm sure there will be many candidates," he said. Nelsen said his decision was accompanied by mixed feelings ("This is an intense personal move on my part"), but was made to best serve the. college's needs. "This is a move to try to meet fairly directly, and with a sense of urgency, some of the needs we see," Nelsen said. "Specifically, we're talking about increasing our student scholarship needs which is a crucial need for the future of this college." The president and the Board "mutually agreed on the ven-ture," according to Nelsen. "The final idea of resignation was mine," he said. Nelsen expressed his ap-preciation for the opportunity he has had while serving as president of Augustana. "I'm very proud of what has happened to this college over the last six years," he said. Building HPER complex postponed Alan Petersen editor To build or not to build, that apparently is not the main ques-tion involving the proposed HPER complex at Augustana. According to the parties in-volved, the complex will be built, the question is when. At the Board of Regents meeting last weekend, the pro-posed facility was mentioned briefly, according to Lee Bowker, provost at Augustana, and John Sorenson, faculty representative on the Board. "I don't think they (the Board) would have even dealt with the HPER complex except there was a motion given to them from Development that asked if once they had achieved 80 percent of the goals in pledges, with 50 percent in cash, if that would be enough to go ahead and break ground with," Sorenson said. "The Board indicated they had ques-tions about going ahead with that amount. Fifty percent (in cash) they didn't think was enough." Currently, Augustana has in the bank $2.7 million in cash directly targeted for the project, with $600,000 in pledges which need to be collected. That's a total of $3.3 million of the $5.5 million the entire project will cost. Bowker said the Board wants to see a substantial amount of capital on hand before agreeing to the project's ground-breaking. "They simply didn't want to have such a motion on record," he said. "They wanted to see the money before coming to the meeting and saying it would automatically be built at this point or that point. That's my understanding. "We (the college) just have not been collecting the money that would have given us that amount of money needed by the summer. The campaign goes for another year so there's, in their mind, no need for a mo-tion or action now." Richard Gunderson, chair-man of the Augustana Board of Regents, also could not specify on the amount of money the Board would need to approve the building of the complex. He said, however, the Board is "strongly and solidly commit-ted to getting it done." A separate Fellows grant of $130,000, according to Presi-dent William Nelsen, may be enough to break ground this summer on practice and in-tramural fields surrounding the proposed HPER complex. The Fellows plan to raise an addi-tional $170,000 to complete the fields. Nelsen indicated that could have a positive impact as far as collecting pledges and raising funds is concerned. Bowker said that anticipation of the HPER project being started this spring was premature. "I don't think the action was delayed," he said. "We have no intention of building without the money and that's all that we're saying." Still, he left the door open as far as when the project will be started. "If we got in some of the big gifts we've asked for, that could get us close enough where one might desire to start building before it freezes this year," Bowker said. "Believe me, if that money came in, they'd (the Board) be more than willing to talk about it right away. They're not dying to postpone it either."
Object Description
Title | Mirror - May 1, 1986 |
Subject (LC) | Augustana College (Sioux Falls, S.D.)--Students--Newspapers |
Type | Newspaper |
Date | 1986-05-01 |
Publishing agency | Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD, USA |
Rights | This image may not be reproduced without the express written consent of Augustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA. |
Medium | Text |
Format - Digital | |
Language | English |
Collection | Augustana Newspapers |
Contributing Institution | Mikkelsen Library, Augustana University |
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Title | Page 1 |
Type | Newspaper |
Date | 1986-05-01 |
Text | Sioux. Falls, SD Volume 69, Number 23 May 1, 1986 Takes on new role William Nelson Fuiure Site Health, Physical Education and Recreation Building and related playing fields Made possible by college friends participating in the Commitment to Excellence and Fellows Project #12 campaigns ■ ugustana College Sioux Falls South Dakota 57197 Photo by Christy Schmidtke This sign on the corner of 33rd and Grange was put up in anticipation of ground-breaking ceremonies this spring. The Augustana Board of Regents decided over the weekend that more funds neededto be raised before approval would be given. Nelsen resigns as president Karin Bumgardner assistant editor Augustana President William C. Nelsen announced his resignation Wednesday, effec-tive as soon as an acting presi-dent can be named following graduation ceremonies in May. Nelsen will then begin a new full-time position as chancellor of fund raising at Augustana. President for the past six years, Nelsen said the move was mutually decided upon by the Board of Regents and himself last weekend. Part of the Regents' weekend involved an evaluation of Nelsen under-taken every six years by the Board. "The Board and I have evaluated where I can best be helpful in this cause and have concluded that such a move would allow a maximum fund raising effort on my part while allowing an acting president to give attention to the day-to-day management of the college," Nelsen said. Nelsen offered three reasons for his "intense personal move" — to assist in development ef-forts; to assist more directly in obtaining funds for the propos-ed HPER complex; and to allow the new president to attend to daily college matters. Nelsen's main new respon-sibilities are tied to the Commit-ment to Excellence Campaign, begun last April and scheduled to continue until June 30, 1987. The campaign's three fund raising goals include the HPER complex (see related article on same page), a Lutheran Brotherhood scholarship challenge grant, and a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. `Pledged HPER funds total $3.3 million, $2.2 million short of planned total costs. The $900,000 Lutheran Brotherhood grant, due June 30, has thirty percent of its funds left fo raise. The NEH grant has raised $1.1 million of the $1.2 million needed. It is due July 31. Nelsen's new position is tem-porary, and tentatively schedul-ed to be eliminated upon com-pletion of the campaign's fund raising. Contacted at his home in Ap-pleton, Wisc., Richard Gunder-son, chairman of the Augustana Board of Regents, commented on the presidential evaluation procedure. "We evaluate and discuss the future of our college presidents like you do with any organization," Gunderson said. "We talked with Bill (Nelsen) early in '86 and late '85. We wanted to discuss issues on his future and the college's future." Listed on the Board's agenda for two months, Nelsen's evaluation was discussed by the Board with three specific op-tions available — reappointing Nelsen for another six-year term (by-laws don't necessarily mandate another six-year ap-pointment), reappointing Nelsen for a two-to-three-year term, and the chancellor posi-tion. Gunderson said an acting president will be appointed as soon as possible after the May 25 commencement and a search committee will be announced. "I'm sure there will be many candidates," he said. Nelsen said his decision was accompanied by mixed feelings ("This is an intense personal move on my part"), but was made to best serve the. college's needs. "This is a move to try to meet fairly directly, and with a sense of urgency, some of the needs we see," Nelsen said. "Specifically, we're talking about increasing our student scholarship needs which is a crucial need for the future of this college." The president and the Board "mutually agreed on the ven-ture," according to Nelsen. "The final idea of resignation was mine," he said. Nelsen expressed his ap-preciation for the opportunity he has had while serving as president of Augustana. "I'm very proud of what has happened to this college over the last six years," he said. Building HPER complex postponed Alan Petersen editor To build or not to build, that apparently is not the main ques-tion involving the proposed HPER complex at Augustana. According to the parties in-volved, the complex will be built, the question is when. At the Board of Regents meeting last weekend, the pro-posed facility was mentioned briefly, according to Lee Bowker, provost at Augustana, and John Sorenson, faculty representative on the Board. "I don't think they (the Board) would have even dealt with the HPER complex except there was a motion given to them from Development that asked if once they had achieved 80 percent of the goals in pledges, with 50 percent in cash, if that would be enough to go ahead and break ground with," Sorenson said. "The Board indicated they had ques-tions about going ahead with that amount. Fifty percent (in cash) they didn't think was enough." Currently, Augustana has in the bank $2.7 million in cash directly targeted for the project, with $600,000 in pledges which need to be collected. That's a total of $3.3 million of the $5.5 million the entire project will cost. Bowker said the Board wants to see a substantial amount of capital on hand before agreeing to the project's ground-breaking. "They simply didn't want to have such a motion on record," he said. "They wanted to see the money before coming to the meeting and saying it would automatically be built at this point or that point. That's my understanding. "We (the college) just have not been collecting the money that would have given us that amount of money needed by the summer. The campaign goes for another year so there's, in their mind, no need for a mo-tion or action now." Richard Gunderson, chair-man of the Augustana Board of Regents, also could not specify on the amount of money the Board would need to approve the building of the complex. He said, however, the Board is "strongly and solidly commit-ted to getting it done." A separate Fellows grant of $130,000, according to Presi-dent William Nelsen, may be enough to break ground this summer on practice and in-tramural fields surrounding the proposed HPER complex. The Fellows plan to raise an addi-tional $170,000 to complete the fields. Nelsen indicated that could have a positive impact as far as collecting pledges and raising funds is concerned. Bowker said that anticipation of the HPER project being started this spring was premature. "I don't think the action was delayed," he said. "We have no intention of building without the money and that's all that we're saying." Still, he left the door open as far as when the project will be started. "If we got in some of the big gifts we've asked for, that could get us close enough where one might desire to start building before it freezes this year," Bowker said. "Believe me, if that money came in, they'd (the Board) be more than willing to talk about it right away. They're not dying to postpone it either." |
Collection | Augustana Newspapers |
Contributing Institution | Mikkelsen Library, Augustana University |