Kim Shatzel resigned as president of the University of Louisville immediately after about two years, performing as president of the institution, staff said on Wednesday.
“The Council of Trustees at the University of Louisville thanked Dr. Shatzel for her two years of service, who saw her to build a team that increased the recording and detention and raising the university’s reputation as a research headquarters,” President of board Diane Medley said in a statement. “We wish D -R Shatzel well in her future endeavors.”
The Council also voted – without opposition – to name Gerrard “Gerry” Bradley, the earlier executive vice president of UOFL and a university provoy, with her successor entering into force immediately.
“With this opportunity and the team we have in place, we can take UOFL to new heights,” Bradley said.
During a press conference after the appointment of Bradley, Medley said the board was convinced that Bradley was fit for the president’s work and felt that he was named as a permanent president, not to find national demand, was the best option for the university.
“In this case, we were very lucky to have someone in our place, Dr. Bradley, who was so suitable for what we needed for the next stage that we felt it was in the best interest of everyone to move forward and name him as a president so that he could hit the ground,” Medley said. “It was a more logical solution, not a precedent deviation.”
The university will pay Schatzel $ 400,000 directly plus an additional $ 300,000 in six monthly contributions as part of its separation, according to a leaf lend to the university.
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Shatzel’s departure comes for a year of record destruction of the UOFL recording and detention rate. Enrollment from the University for the 2024-2025 school year reached the highest level of 24,073 students, including its largest freshman, according to a message from last fall. The degree of retention of students also reached a record of 81.5%.
The university has raised more than half a billion dollars funding from the legislative power in Kentucky during the 2024 legislative session, Shatzel and the Council said in a joint statement after the announcement.
Medley said the board was pleased with UOFL’s relations with Kentucky legislation and other programs initiated in the Shatzel administration, but mentions the displacement of the goals between her and the board.
“With every position, times are changing. The goals of Dr. Shatzel have changed, our goals have changed, and we have had a lot of happiness to have the ability to name Dr. Bradley, which was already here, so we would not have lost the impulse,” Medley said.
Bradley arrived at UOFL in 2016 as a dean of the Dental Medicine School. He said the opportunity to become president has appeared in the last few days.
On March 18, the University of Cincinnati announced that Bradley was elected a new executive vice president of the University of Academic Affairs and Provisions, but in a message on Tuesday UC President Neville Pinto said the university would open a national demand to fulfill the role after learning that Bradley was “pursuing other options”.
“Outside, it may seem sharp, but the conversations continue all the time. This advice is very engaged in the management of this university,” Medley said. “I follow the mind: what does the university need? And this coincided with its resignation in a way that works for all countries.”
Schatzel became the 19th president of UOFL in 2023. She arrived in Louisvil from the University of Tawson in Maryland, where she helped to raise the University of the largest in Big Baltimore and the second largest in the state, according to her biography.
Her experience with higher education also includes claims as a temporary president, provoked and executive Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs at the University of East Michigan and as a dean of the University of Michigan-Direborn College of Business.
Before becoming a leader of higher education, she spent more than two decades in business in the sectors of advanced manufacturing and technology.
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This article originally appeared at Louisville Courier Journal: The President of the University of Louisville Kim Shatzel resigned