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 UM-Dearborn (like this one), her name on a conference program in Poland, and the profile that was in today’s AANews, “EMU candidate called a pragmatist.” That’s it.
So, I don’t know. She seems like she would be a perfectly competent administrator. But as to her ability to do stuff like “heal the community” or have much political clout in Lansing, well, that is a bit of a mystery to me. If anyone knows anything else about her, please pass it along, but at this stage, I guess we won’t really learn that much about her until she comes to campus.
IF she supports bulldozing down the new student Government Union building then she’s got my vote.
Also… Is there a trend (I’ve been busy several months in a row and this is the first post since my Ranting about Gen. Education Requirements) of making sure everyone knows as little as possible about all candidates except the Inevitable Shelton?
This happened last time I believe with Samuel Kirkpatrick and Fallon where not much information was available on any of the candidates except the one that inevitably and unfortunately was chosen.