Bruce Van De Velde, former AD at ISU, among 5 EIU finalists

From Journal Gazette/Times-Courier (Illinois):

... Van De Velde has experience as a major college AD in 2000-06 during the time Iowa State received negative publicity when basketball coach Larry Eustachy's problems with alcohol [LINK] led to him being ousted.“Whenever you're in a leadership role you have to make difficult decisions, you do that with the student-athletes best interest and when you do that you can't go wrong,” Van De Velde said.Van De Velde soon departed from Iowa State as well.“I felt in five years I had done our work there and accomplished our goals there and it was time to turn the page and take on a new challenge,” he said. ...[Finalist Jean] Berger has been with Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, since August 1991, and currently serves as associate athletic director for student services/senior woman administrator.  ...

[Finalist Jean] Berger has been with Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, since August 1991, and currently serves as associate athletic director for student services/senior woman administrator.  ...