Vision for Central Michigan University’s next president

Board of Trustees Chairwoman Gail Torreano said she has not completely formulated a vision yet, as the presidential search Web site and forums will offer insight in coming weeks of what the campus community hopes to see.

Cuts to general fund state appropriations for higher education institutions may be necessary to make ends meet this year, Gary Olson said Tuesday.

“In the end, we are not going to be able to balance the 2009-10 budget with keeping community colleges, universities and K-12 whole; I just don’t see how the numbers are going to work,” the director of the Michigan Senate Fiscal Agency said at a presentation in the Charles V.

Updated at 6:52 p.m. Thursday

Central Michigan University Provost Julia Wallace is a finalist for another university in its provost search.

Wallace was announced as one of three finalists for provost at the University of
Wisconsin-Green Bay and was on its campus Monday for a series of interviews with faculty, staff and students.

Emotions fill the air and memories flood the mind each time Janine Janosky travels through the halls of the Education and Human Services Building.

Karen Adams, former dean of the College of Education and Human Services, spearheaded the project and had an undying excitement to see its completion.

When addressing her academic credentials, the soon-to-be interim president of Central Michigan University is blunt.

Kathy Wilbur will become the leader of Michigan’s fourth-largest university with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a minor in political science.

The first open forum for Central Michigan University’s presidential search will be at 4 p.m. today in the Bovee University Center Lake Michigan Room.

“It’s basically an opportunity for members of the university community to give input as to what they would like to see in the next president of the university,” said Director of Media Relations Steve Smith.

As many Mount Pleasant residents were still in bed early Monday morning, others forwent sleep for a chance to be on national television.

Several Central Michigan University students and Mount Pleasant community members gathered at Sacred Heart Academy, 302 S.

Michigan university presidents say higher education must remain a top priority if government officials want to make long-term investments for the state.

At a meeting of the Michigan Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education Tuesday in the Charles V.