There’s some disagreement over the type of successor the University of Delaware should hire to replace former University president Patrick Harker.
Jeff Garland, university vice president and secretary with the Board of Trustees, said they were looking for someone to follow in his footsteps.
But there has been some push back from university professors who charged that Harker put too much emphasis on science and engineering programs at the expense of other departments.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that Robert Opila, the incoming president of the Faculty Senate and a member of the search committee, whoever follows Harker should avoid those conflicts.
Harker left the university after eight years to take a position with the Federal Reserve Bank in Philadelphia.
