Soon
after Bruce Harreld was selected as president of the University of Iowa in
September 2015, there was some talk of him being akin to Professor Harold Hill
— the con-man hero in Meredith Willson’s famous musical, “The Music Man.”A
former IBM executive whose experience was in strategic planning rather than in
university administration, Harreld was dismissed readily by many on campus as,
in Willson’s words, “a flim-flam man” who “doesn’t know the territory.”The
negative reaction to Harreld was inflamed further by the failures of the Iowa
Board of Regents to keep its search process open and transparent. Harreld’s
unanimous selection by the board was thought to be the result of
behind-the-scenes manipulations of Bruce Rastetter, the agribusinessman who
served as regent president until earlier this year.
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