Some interesting observations on the EMU prez search from the AANews
Geoff Larcom’s piece on the AANews web site (probably the paper tomorrow), “Susan Martin picked as first woman president of Eastern Michigan University,” has some kind of interesting observations about things in this whole process I either didn’t think about or just didn’t know about. Read the whole piece, but here’s what I mean:
Six of the eight members of the board of regents - Roy Wilbanks, Jim Stapleton, Fran Parker, Gary Hawks, Floyd Clack and Sidlik attended the forums throughout the week, and could seen talking with faculty and staff in between sessions.
Not attending were longtime regent Phil Incarnati, a former chairman of the board, and regent Mohamed Okdie, who was appointed to the board last November by Gov. Jennifer Granholm.
I can understand Incarnati as a no-show since he’s more or less done as a member of the board. But what’s up with Okdie?
And then this:
The search included a variety of political twists. Granholm campaigned strongly for the selection of Flanagan, calling up members of the board of regents to express her support.
Former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer, who is considering running for governor, supported Shelton. Supporters of each candidate attended their favorite’s respective forums, but Shelton had by far the greatest number of people who spoke in his favor at last week’s sessions. Shelton supporters attended a reception in his honor at Aubree’s in Depot Town.
Well, if Shelton had bought pizza for everyone….
Posted: May 11th, 2008 | By: sitedad | Category/Categories: EMU President Search.
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