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me would I be interested in being considered, and I told
\ them no I wouldn't. I wasn't looking for a job/
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H exercises. Holderman sato he told OSU officials he wasnt looking for a job.
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University officials asked
USC President James B.
Holderman to visit their
campus, Ohio and South
Carolina news sources had
him pegged as the leading
candidate in OSU's search
for a new president.
Holderman won't confirm
or deny those reports but
admits to having had "very
serious discussions" with
OSU trustees.
4 'Some time ago they (OSU
officials) called me and
asked me would I be interested
in being considered
(as a candidate), and I told
them no I wouldn't. I wasn't
looking for a job,"
Holderman said.
The USC president said
officials called back saying
we aren i going to take no
for an answer?" and after
agreeing to talk to the search
committee, Holderman and
his family were flown to
Ohio.
"Then it got pretty
serious," Holderman said,
"but still I wasn't looking for
a job. I think they would
have offered me more
(salary) than I make here,
but that wasn't a principal
consideration."
Holderman withdrew his
name from consideration
June 1 and OSU's attemnts
to woo him out of Carolina
country and into Buckeye
territory had failed.
"One of the phrases the
Ohio State people used over
and over again was iet's
awaken the sleeping giant
and bring it to life,'"
Holderman said. The
"giant" sleeps on 3,500
acres, has about 55,000
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siuuenis ana an annual
budget of more than $500
million. According to
Holderman, USC trustees
used to use the same phrase.
It seems logical then, for
OSU to have named
Holderman a candidate for
the job of waking a giant ?
he did it here.
The 45~year ? old
Holderman has hroucht
Carolina international fame
by aiding in the creation of
the James F. Byrnes International
Center and
succeeding in attracting
several foreign dignitaries,
including Jihan el Sadat,
wife of Egyptian President
Anwar el Sadat, to USC in
commemoration , of the
Byrnes Center opening this
year.
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no m?u wus instrumental
in procuring John W. Young
and Robert L. Crippen,
astronauts of the space
shuttle Columbia, tospeafrat"
May graduation ceremonies
this year.
Holderman has also
succeeded in unifying and
streamlining the USC
campus network by bringing
all nine branch campuses
into the budget process and
standardizing university
services.
According to Holderman,
OSU wants the "visibility"
Carolina has, and when the
Buckeyes talk about
"waking the sleeping giant,"
they are hoping for a
president who "will take
some real strides to project
Ohio State to a more visible
arena than it has been."
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sidered Holderman on the
basis of what an Ohio
newspaper called "political
know ? how," citing his
victory last March in a battle
with the South Carolina
Commission on Higher
Education. The commission
claimed USC's General
Studies programs duplicate
programs offered by
technical schools, and
therefore should be
eiiiiuuuieu. usl won lis
appeal to legislative committees
to keep the
programs.
Holderman said OSU
officials were impressed
with Carolina's growth and
they "surprised" the USC
president with statistics
showing an increase in
research dollars.
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"They gave me a figure I
didn't know about. Four
years before I came here
there were $14 million in
research grants from the
federal onvprnmpnt anH in
the four years since I've
been here there's been $70
million in research grants ?
there's been a $56 million
increase," Holderman said.
Carolina's continued
growth was one of several
influential factors in
HoLderman's decision to
take his name out of conat
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shooting for a multimillion
dollar goal in a future fund
drive. Holderman wants to
add to the international side
of the university, not just to
the "gloss and glamour of
visiting dignitaries," but
also to what he calls the
"substance" of the international
program.
Faculty salaries at Carolina
should hp at n "hnrrl nr>H fnct
level where they're competitive
with the top 100
institutions in the nation," he
said.
"I have no modest ambitions
for this institution,"
Holdermansaid.
Although he said he
received a lot of advice from
local and national levels and
from his family, the decision
to stay at Carolina was his
alone, Holderman said.
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