Category Archives: EMU President Search

Same place, same time, same routine, but a different day and a different candidate. Once again, I’ll be taking some notes and posting them as I go on today’s candidate, Kenn Burnley. I got into the building before the rain came, but one of my colleagues predicted that might impact turn-out. So far though, the room seems to be filling up quickly.

Anyway, once again, excuse the various typos and such as I go.

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I’ll be typing up notes here and there as the presentation goes on. My apologies in advance for various typos and such….

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I will be attending the talk/session/whatever it is being called with faculty that Michael Flanagan is holding in about an hour.  My plan is to sorta “live blog” the event here; we’ll see how that goes.  But in the mean-time, has any regular readers out there had a chance to meet today’s candidate?  Any thoughts you want to share one way or the other?

EMUTalk.org regular Publius Crabgrass sent me an email/post this morning, one which I think is a great idea:

Perhaps it is about as useful as the Michigan Democratic caucus presidential poll, but in the interests of transparency and curiousity I have created Publius’ EMU presidential preference poll. It is a very brief survey using SurveyMonkey, asking members of the EMUtalk community to indicate their preference among the “Final Four” The survey is found at this link http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=xj05jp6PiVCc5c_2fxQ_2fY6FA_3d_3d and I will promise to post the results a day or two after the final candidate has left the building. Apparently the Board will only accept formal “input” on their own forms (and we may never see the results) but it might be interesting to know what the EMUtalk community has to say.

Ideally, I think people ought to vote after they see the candidates next week. But for folks who have already made up their minds (based on resumes and the other documents the candidates submitted, the newspaper articles, the discussion here, the wiki some library folks set up, etc.), I believe voting is open. My assumption is that PC will report back to us the results.

I thought I’d pass along two “public service announcements” about the search for the next president of EMU. First, there is this EMU web site which has the official information on the search for the next EMU president. Second and after the “read more” part is the schedule for the candidates that has appeared for the last week or two on EMU Today.

One way or the other, try to get to as much of the on-campus events with these candidates as possible. I know it will not be easy for many people. These sessions are happening at a time of the school year where a large percentage of faculty and students are either gone until the fall term, or where they (and I am in this group) are just swamped with getting the shorter and more intense spring term up and running. But I am going to try to make the faculty sessions for each of these candidates if I can manage it. I hope lots of other EMU students, faculty, staff, administrators, alumni, and anyone else I’m forgetting can do the same.
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