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(05-12-2016 12:26 PM)GullLake Wrote:  

(05-12-2016 09:04 AM)broncofan1 Wrote:  

(05-11-2016 01:51 PM)GullLake Wrote:  

(05-11-2016 08:27 AM)broncofan1 Wrote:  VP of Development is leaving in June.

President is (likely) announcing his retirement soon.

Change is coming.

It is.

I like President Dunn and he has done a nice job building WMU back from the mess Dorothy left.

When Dunn retires, I would like to see a WMU man/woman in the president's office. We need someone with a passion for the school and campus and with a strong appreciation for not only where WMU has been, but where it is going.

It sure would be nice to have Keith Pretty return to Kalamazoo:

http://www.northwood.edu/about/central-a...ation.aspx

If Keith is ever going to come back, this would be the time. A lot of the 'old guard' that were pissed at him from before are now gone, so he could be a breath of fresh air. I have always like him.

That said, Keith left before we transitioned to a research university. I guarantee that will be in the criteria for the next president.

Research is fine, but WMU's bread & butter is, and always will be, undergraduate instruction. Our funding from State Government isn't ever going to match that of U-M or MSU. We could bring Moses back from the dead to be president, and that funding gap would not change, unfortunately.

Could make a case to disagree. One, only something south of 50% of funding is State based. Two, we'd have to run leaner and smarter than UM or MSU. Three, research becomes more than baseline academic and actually produces legitimate marketable research products. Research Universities must do research. We already are very proficient with the Undergrad segment of it.