<p>I didn’t think Thrasher would get it…oh well…</p>
<p><a href=“http://presidentialsearch.fsu.edu/ ”>http://presidentialsearch.fsu.edu/</a></p> ;
<p>On a side note, UF’s eighth president was also a lawyer, well connected Alumni and past chairman of the Board of Regents. Marshall Criser was also very successful. Well see if President Thrasher follows a similar path.</p>
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The Florida Board of Regents selected Criser to be the eighth president of the University of Florida in 1984. He was the University of Florida’s second alumnus to serve as its president.His term as president is remembered for the enhancement of the university’s instructional quality, the rapid rise of its admissions standards, the growth of its academic reputation, and its successful fund-raising among alumni and the business community. His administration successfully completed the process of the University of Florida’s admission to the Association of American Universities (AAU), the leading association of North American research universities, in 1985, and forthrightly handled the football program’s widespread violations of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rules under coach Charley Pell that shocked the university community during the 1984–1985 academic year. As an experienced lawyer, he supervised the university’s own investigation of its football program, disclosed the results to the NCAA, and implemented reforms to ensure the integrity of the university and future compliance with NCAA legislation. Criser was responsible for initiating the university’s first comprehensive capital campaign in the fall of 1988. When completed three years later, in 1991, the capital campaign had raised more than $390 million for the university’s endowment. At the time, the capital campaign realized the third-highest total of private donations ever raised by an American state university.
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