Vice President of Finance and Administrative Services David Burdette will request authorization Thursday to fund two additional deferred maintenance projects at the Board of Trustees meeting.

The holidays came early Sunday for Ryan Taylor.

The Grosse Ile senior, along with about a dozen other ceramic and pottery students, got to see their finished pots after spending the weekend firing them in a wood kiln outside Wightman Hall.

Symbolic masks, Oscar Mayer Wieners and typewriting toasters.

All these things can be found at the faculty art exhibit in the Main Art Gallery.

Shake up a hat and pull out a name.
Things are transitioning quickly at Central Michigan University with at least 15 administrative positions searching new leadership in an array of jumbled switches.
The most recent is Dan Vetter appointed as interim dean of College of Business Administration, effective Aug. 31, from his position as senior associate dean of CBA.
Claudia Douglass became interim vice provost for academic affairs Aug. 10. And Douglass’s former position of associate dean of the College of Science and Technology is still without an interim.

Art students will notice something different about one of the dark rooms in Wightman Hall this fall.
It will not be there.
One of the two dark rooms is turning into a computer lab to accommodate for the photography curriculum’s shift to digital photography.
“It’s going to be a change that we need to make to meet new technology,” said Larry Burditt, interim chairman for the art department.
The new curriculum will focus on what photography majors need to strengthen their skills and help them with job prospects.