How that shot, that run to the Round of 16 that March, gave the university in Valparaiso, Ind., a permanent place in college basketball lore.
While a CEO cannot ensure permanent employment (only college professors with tenure can get away with that trick), the one thing they have been able to maintain is remarkably high compensation packages.
Despite that challenge, ethnic studies programs, increased aid, grant and scholarship programs for minority students, affirmative action initiatives, and a marked increase in black faculty and administrators has become a permanent fixture on college campuses.
This is to serve as the college's permanent Sept. 11 memorial.
Some are drawn from the college's permanent Rodman collection, with the rest on loan from Carole Rodman, Mr. Rodman's widow.
The Guardian understands Layfield has consulted employment lawyers and is in the process of negotiating his permanent departure from the college.
No fewer than 125 artifacts are on loan from the college's permanent collection and a dozen cultural and historical institutions across the state.
Eric Greitens, a former member of the Navy SEALs and chief executive of the Mission Continues, which pays veterans to perform community services while applying for college or permanent jobs, said more corporations and foundations seemed willing to give, but only to groups that could demonstrate impact.
Its permanent shuttering at the college shouldn't be mourned by anyone, even its members.
Ashoka U, (with a) "vision for a world where Everyone is a Changemaker," is one organization working to make social entrepreneurship and innovation a permanent part of the college experience.
