Susan Martin is perhaps the most traditional of the candidates for this position (a move from provost to president makes a lot more sense than a move from judge or even K-12 superintendent), but she easily has the lowest profile. Googling her, I turned up a couple articles about her moving from GVSU to [...]
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Abby just sent me information on this: some folks in the library have set up a wiki on the EMU Presidential Search, which has a lot of good info and some good ideas on doing more research on these candidates. A very helpful and cool resource! Well, at least for faculty: EMU Faculty Council president Russ Larson sent around an email the other day that outlined the format and the questions process for the “final four” EMU President candidates at the faculty sessions. I am assuming that these are far from a secret for the candidates themselves, so I thought I’d pass them along here. These apply to faculty, but I have to assume that other “stakeholder” groups will have similar formats. Today’s Ann Arbor News story, “Candidate’s EMU ties emotional, professional,” is about Michael Flanagan. Basically, it’s a kind of “fluff/feel good piece.” Not that Flanagan has a lot of skeletons in his closet or something, but it isn’t exactly what I would call “investigative” journalism. The biggest rap against him in the piece seems [...] Since I’m a faculty-type, I’ve been focused-in on the meetings that the four candidates are having with faculty next week, Monday through Thursday. But there are many other meet-n-greet opportunities, and I just came across info on East-cross.com that the candidates will be meeting with various Ypsilanti community leaders at 5 pm on those [...] And then, there’s “the judge.” Donald Shelton has been mentioned around campus and on this blog for months and months as a possible candidate. Shelton has been mentioned/floated on EMUTalk.org as a candidate for the job of EMU President since at least late October 2007, Shelton alone was the subject of a late February AANews article speculating on candidates for the job, and it was the mysterious Alum (I honestly don’t know who this person is, by the way) who wrote this back on October 27, 2007:
So, what does a Google search turn up on the man who is easily the best known and discussed candidate? Check out the web site for that scrappy local start-up magazine, emYou, which is at http://emyouthemagazine.com/. It’s a work in progress, more or less like the magazine itself, but very promising and something I can link to. My google searches last week for Michael Flanagan suggested to me someone who is a potentially interesting EMU presidential candidate. On the one hand, he has lots of administrative experience and he certainly has connections with state government; on the other hand, his experience is pretty K-12 centered, and he doesn’t hold a PhD. So we’ll see. A bit of research on Ken Burnley suggests a more, um, problematic candidate. More after the break, but the recent Detroit News article announcing the EMU candidates kind of sums up Burnley:
And I assume the Hendrix connection is at least part of the reason why Burnley is in the mix. I won’t be at the ceremonies today, but if anyone has any picts or tidbits to share, feel free to do so– post a comment, send me an email, etc. According to this article from the Detroit Freep.com, EMU’s speaker for both ceremonies will be Michael Morris, chief executive officer and president of [...] There was some comments on this, and since I came across it online, I thought I’d go ahead and post a link to the story: Jones is 3rd-highest pick in EMU history; Tennessee ends DL’s wait in 2nd round Congratulations to him, though I still think we ought to drop down a division [...] |
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