BU TRUSTEE PANEL URGES GOLDIN BE RECONSIDERED QUESTIONS RAISED ON HIS TEMPERAMENT THIRD Edition

• Published in: The Boston globe
• Main Author: Marcella Bombardieri, and Patrick Healy, Globe staff
• Format: Newspaper Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, Mass Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC 25.10.2003
• Subjects: Appointments & personnel changes; Boards of trustees; Colleges & universities; Goldin, Daniel S; School administration
• ISSN: 0743-1791

Goldin had been one of several finalists in BU's search for a leader to succeed [John Silber], and he was widely seen as having the inside track on the job, members of BU's presidential search committee said. Silber, a committee member and power broker on the BU Board of Trustees, was considered partial to Goldin. Silber was impressed with Goldin's credentials as the longest-serving administrator at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and he was influenced by Goldin's chief patron among the trustees, Washington lobbyist Gerald Cassidy, who is close to Silber. During the search, Goldin made it clear to Silber and other search committee members that he would not accept the BU presidency if it meant sharing power with Silber, BU's chancellor, who was president from 1971 to 1996. Silber agreed to step down as chancellor and become president emeritus if Goldin accepted. Goldin, an engineer by training who was seen as a hard-charging and sometimes combative leader at NASA, had said that he was thrilled to be coming to BU and that he hoped to remain president for at least a decade. According to BU officials, Goldin was expected to be paid more than $600,000 a year; he also was preparing to move into the BU president's Brookline manse, which has been under renovation in recent weeks.