Ex-Administrator Weekend News Round-up
Sean O’Keefe Elected to Battelle’s Board of Directors
Sean O’Keefe Elected to DuPont Board of Directors
O’Keefe gets third board post, The Advocate
“LSU Chancellor Sean O’Keefe has secured his third spot on a corporate board of directors — this time with a multibillion-dollar multinational that will provide great contacts for the school and $235,000 to its leader.”
Rabalais: O’Keefe awaits football, The Advocate
“After 3 1/2 sometimes rocky years at NASA, where he presided during the Columbia shuttle disaster and controversial budget cuts, O’Keefe was asked which he was looking forward to most of all: seeing a space shuttle fly again or Saturday night in Tiger Stadium? O’Keefe smiled broadly and said, “Saturday night in Tiger Stadium. Smart guy. Obviously someone who knows the importance of LSU athletics. And that it’s important he’s in Tiger Stadium on Sept. 3.”
“Daniel S. Goldin holds the distinction of being NASA’s longest-serving administrator, an appointee of three U.S. presidents. He initiated NASA’s Origin Program to study how our solar system formed, how life on Earth began and to explore whether life exists elsewhere in the universe.”
Educational crisis looms when the ‘Space Cowboys’ retire, Enterprise Netwroks and Servers
“In the next five to 10 years the Cold Warriors and the people who worked on Apollo are going to retire,” said NASA Administrator Dan Goldin. “We have five to 10 years of that overlap between those who know how to do things and those who come in with brilliant new ideas.”
BU names MIT provost as its new president, Boston Herald
“After clashing with trustees and longtime President and Chancellor John Silber, Goldin was reportedly paid a severance package of $1.8 million without serving a single day as president of BU.”
