Apparently Yellen is being considered at Loyola New Orleans.
loyolamaroon.com/10025000/news/who-are-the-candidates-a-look-into-the-three-potential-provosts/Obviously Marist and Yellen were not a match, in the article he even mentions the logo on the field as a matter of contention!
"David Yellen, a graduate of Princeton University and Cornell University School of Law, is currently a professor of criminal justice at Marist College in New York where he previously served as university president from 2016 to the summer of 2019. As university president, he oversaw the creation of a new school of medicine, scheduled to open in 2022, as well as the creation of new programs in cybersecurity and physical therapy.
Yellen said his decision to leave the presidency after three years and focus on being a professor at Marist was due to the “culture” of the administration.
“I succeeded a gentleman who became president at 31, 32 years old, and served for 37 years,” Yellen said.
“The board chose to create a job for him that people who are experts in university governance would tell you there should not be a role like this for someone when you have a new president,” said Yellen. “My three years there were not a quiet time. We were doing a lot of big changes. and even some small symbolic things got the ire of some of the old guard.”
Yellen said even his decision to put the university logo on the football field caused a “schism” in support for his presidency.
“It just turned out to be a place that didn’t have the right culture for me,” Yellen said.
But Yellen said he does not feel the same way about Loyola.
“I see in Loyola New Orleans, a university with a great sense of mission, pride, an outstanding group of people and academic programs, a place that has overcome a lot in recent years and a place with enormous potential to achieve important and meaningful things in the next decade,” said Yellen.
Before his time at Marist, Yellen spent 11 years as the dean of the law school at Loyola University Chicago, a job he described as “the most rewarding” in his career. When he arrived in 2005, Yellen said the university was coming out of a period of enrollment challenges that have informed his vision for Loyola University New Orleans.
Yellen said universities like Loyola need to focus on emphasizing the importance of a humanities education while using technology and predictive analytics to retain students and create new programs to bring in revenue.
“More and more students, certainly at the graduate and professional levels, are looking to take advantage of smart technology-based programs,” said Yellen. “Universities need to be looking at creative programming for adult learners.”
He acknowledged that as a Jesuit university, “we are not in this to make a profit,” but for Yellen, increased revenue is a necessary prerequisite to growing the reach of Loyola’s mission.
“You collectively have made hard choices and sacrifices,” Yellen said to university faculty and staff. “I firmly believe Loyola New Orleans has the ability to be one of the great success stories of the next decade.”"