President Mary Sue Coleman will step down 7/31/14
Title says it all: http://www.ur.umich.edu/update/archives/130418/coleman
Title edit: It's not off topic, even though it's not about sports
Is she entering the NBA draft?
Retiring completely according to Twitter
Heard Chris Webber fired her ass.
Not OT- it's about the University.
Also, could this have some effect on the Fab 5 and their banners?
That thought occurred to me also.
You do not understand the culture of UM from the eyes of the President.
This is not OSU and the wonderful world of Gordon Gee
The university's culture may not change but the 10 year ban and disassociation ends a month or two. The new president/administration will not be restricted by that NCAA ruling.
Also, the president may well be an outsider or even if it is an insider it will probably be someone who wasn't very involved on the athletic side of the school. So the perspective will likely be different. Time heals all wounds etc etc. MSC was around since 2002 including the end of the investigation, the sanctions period when other athletes suffered for other people's transgressions and the period during which the program was struggling which a lot of people blamed on those 4. Those experiences would likely shape her views in a way that is probably less favorable to a reconciliation than would be the perspective of someone new who hadn't been around during that period. The scandal will probably be less personal and more historical for the new President.
I loved the Fab Five, but as long as the NCAA rules that those games are vacated, I can't imagine us returning the banners. Schools do not, as a rule, honor teams whose accomplishments are taken away.
Self-imposed sanctions. The NCAA did not hand the wins being vacated (to my understanding...but I've been wrong before)
I don't think OSU has heard of your rule...
Will Kwame be out by then??
I don't think someone's ability to walk should have anything to do with it.
I, MgrowOld, BS Degree-holding, Poli-Sci Majoring, University of Michigan Alumni class of 1981 am tanned, rested and ready for the job.
I hereby throw my hat in the ring.
wow. by looking at your avitar i would have thought you were born in 91, not have graduated from college in 81.
you're too old. As a spring chicken '82 grad, I can run rings around your "hat in the ring." And I've got two Michigan degrees -- top that, MF'r!
Step off pops. You're gonna break a hip.
UM '88
You old people are funny. UM '98
By the way you throw it right back at the young punks, I never would have guessed 53'ish. Well done.
because he just made the largest single donation in the university history - $110 million
Where I can apply? Will the interview be in STAR format?
and I wonder who replaces her. Obligatory football analogy: I like that she was the first president in a while not to get hired away by someone else. It shows that we are able to hold onto our "coaching" talent, and actually a lot of her "coordinators" got hired to be heads at other good schools, which is a sign of success as well.
Ummm...MSC was one of the most prolific fundraising Prezis this U or any has seen in a 100 hundred years. And, yes, it is all about the Benjamins for U prezis. Our endowment has ba-boomed under her auspicies. That was her main roll, and she killed it.
I smell Lloyd Carr acomefith.
He his zero experience in that type of role. He's been a football coach and some kind of AD advisor right?
MSC was the head of some U of Kentucky cancer center, then the President of Iowa before being president here. No offense to Lloyd, but Michigan can too much, much better
I can't name a ton of university presidents, but I can't think of one at a major university without a background running big academic departments or smaller colleges/universities. Lawrence Summers is the closest I can think of to a non-career academic and his resume is a bit...different than Carr's, to say the least.
This. My first thought when I read the headline was "I wonder which Ivy League school poached her..."
Perfect timing.
Aw, sad. Whoever comes next has some big shoes to fill.
A toast, to Mary Sue Coleman.
Put the banners up and hire Webber as the pres.
Sooo...good, bad, neutral? How am I supposed to feel about this?
She was a very effective president. (Time magazine certainly thinks so). The Michigan Difference, which was mostly under her tenure as president, raised $3.2 billion (more than its $2.5 billion goal). But she can't serve forever, either:
Appointed in 2002, Coleman is the fourth-longest-serving president in U-M's history. James B. Angell served 38 years, followed by Alexander G. Ruthven at 22 and Harlan H. Hatcher at 16.
There always seems to be some new building or other going up on North Campus, so there'll be no shortage of buildings that need names.
Great fundraiser, a little iffy on being open to student issues, lots of student orgs don't like her but I would say a net positive for the university during her tenure. She takes a lot of flack about putting fundraising and buidling imporvements over student well being. But that just some students opinions, nbobody thinks she was overall terrible for the school.
Well she took a stance supporting discrimination (in the form of affirmative action), so I can't be too mad about it.
but this veers into taboo territory here, politics. It is hard to avoid politics when discussing somebody who supported such controversial and politically extreme positions.
of Ayn Rand and your post just screams 'douchebag'.
A big part of the 'no politics' rule is to prevent replies like this that serve to bring the discussion down another level. Disagree quietly, explain why you don't think he should post what he did, but there's no need to reply with namecalling (and a pretty thinly veiled political statement).
points return 5/18.
do what you gotta do
Didn't she make a push to get her term limits removed?
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