President Scott Hagan is about as glossy as they come. With a smile from ear to ear and the ability to make you feel like the most important person in the world when he’s in front of you, one realizes after working with him how little leadership and administrative skills he actually beholds. Whether it’s the strategic plan that cost thousands and thousands of consultant dollars and labor hours that he has failed to execute on to the fact that he avoids being on campus to preach at churches every weekend, he has yet to prove in five years that he has the chops to lead an organization. He has no ability to execute even the simplest of ideas.
The employee commitment to his success is very low. He’s on, essentially, his second senior leadership team and even they (as his supposedly closest allies) speak negatively against him. Despite recognizing his own shortcomings in administration at times, he refuses to develop and bring to his leadership the things we need as a university.
He exaggerates to the point of frequently lying. Because he likes to be “Mr Positive” he will often oversell ideas, people, and opportunities. It’s cost the university financially and in personnel. He’s a difficult person to trust.
One of the primary goals when he first started was to raise funds. He’s great at shaking hands but has raised very, very little funds. The issues according to him are always someone or something else. It’s never him.
The list of issues with him are extensive and beyond what’s been shared above, including additional integrity issues (hiring friends with exorbitant salaries) to being a complete narcissist. I personally know no one in the university who wants him to stay.

Meaning – he can talk to you until you’re blue in the face about leadership but has little ability to actually do it well. Knowing this makes him a joke every time he opens his mouth.