{"id":3274,"date":"2008-05-23T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/nmsus-martin-recommended-for-lsu-job\/"},"modified":"2008-05-23T14:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T20:43:00","slug":"nmsus-martin-recommended-for-lsu-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/nmsus-martin-recommended-for-lsu-job\/","title":{"rendered":"NMSU&#8217;s Martin recommended for LSU job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SDcskcjg8CI\/AAAAAAAAF0c\/Kz_BwjXrCIA\/s1600-h\/Martin,+Michael.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SDcskcjg8CI\/AAAAAAAAF0c\/Kz_BwjXrCIA\/s200\/Martin,+Michael.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203676899101962274\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The Louisiana State University Chancellor Search Committee today recommended that New Mexico State University President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmsu.edu\/president\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Martin<\/a> be the next leader of LSU\u2019s main campus in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Baton   Rouge<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">LSU President John V. Lombardi must now decide whether to recommend that the Board of Supervisors hire Martin, which he could formally do at their next meeting on June 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWe were handed a difficult task by President Lombardi,\u201d the search committee\u2019s chair, John Hamilton, said in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsu.edu\/chancellor\/search\/announcement20080523.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">a news release<\/a> announcing today\u2019s decision. \u201cBut I am confident that we found the best candidate for the job. Dr. Martin would be a fine choice to run this university.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The members of the committee voted unanimously to recommend Martin, according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Martin, <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/martin-says-he-has-not-decided-to-leave.html\">who said last week<\/a> that he would not decide whether to take the job \u2013 if offered \u2013 until after meeting with NMSU\u2019s regents, said during an interview with faculty and staff at LSU on Wednesday that it \u201cwould be an honor to join the leadership team at a great university like LSU.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI understand how gratifying and rewarding it can be to work at an institution with the commitment to its students that LSU has,\u201d he said at that meeting, according to the LSU release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The release quoted Lombardi as saying the committee selected a \u201cfine candidate.\u201d Lombardi personally asked Martin to consider the job. The two worked together at the <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placetype st=\"on\">University<\/st1:placetype>  of <st1:placename st=\"on\">Florida<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place> in 1998 and 1999.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI know Dr. Martin well,\u201d Lombardi said in the release. \u201cHe is an excellent person. We have a lot of work we want to accomplish and we want somebody who can help us do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It sounds like there\u2019s a good chance Martin will be offered the LSU job. Expect talks with the NMSU regents to include an offer of increased compensation to stay in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Las   Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. This year, Martin is making $335,000, plus a $6,000-per-month housing allowance. He also gets a deferred compensation payment of $100,000 if he stays at NMSU through 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He would make significantly more than that at LSU. The NMSU regents will probably offer more to try to keep him here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Louisiana State University Chancellor Search Committee today recommended that New Mexico State University President Michael Martin be the next leader of LSU\u2019s main campus in Baton Rouge. LSU President John V. Lombardi must now decide whether to recommend that the Board of Supervisors hire Martin, which he could formally do at their next meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}