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Walter E. “Ted” Carter (OSU President)

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MSU hired a new President last week. He is a kinesiology professor. Apparently, his sig met the criteria. :sneaky:

Dear Spartan community, Today, I eagerly begin my work as the 22nd president of Michigan State University, starting with offering students a warm welcome back after what I hope was a relaxing spring break and an opportunity to recharge. I look forward to meeting many of you on campus in the coming weeks and congratulating our newest graduates at commencement ceremonies in just two short months! Higher education is my passion, and I share the deep commitment of MSU’s world-class faculty, curious students, dedicated staff, visionary administrators and devoted trustees to advancing knowledge and transforming lives through the reach of our passionately public university. I am confident that together, we can build an even stronger partnership with our many stakeholders in every corner of the state and around the globe. I have spent much of the past six months learning about you, and decided after that exploration that I wanted it to be about us. My wife Amy and I felt a connection to the MSU community from the moment we touched down in early November for a visit to East Lansing. There is a deep love for this place, coupled still with a need for healing. I am eager to help move us forward with you by my side. There is so much innovative teaching, groundbreaking research and overall compassionate care occurring on our campus daily, and I look forward to working with Spartans near and far to help write the next chapter of Michigan State’s inspiring story. Through servant leadership, I aim to build on MSU’s celebrated history as a proud land-grant university that is embracing an aspiration to be bold and contemporary in preparing the next generation of leaders across Michigan, the nation and the world. I am committed to moving us into the future with purpose, humility and vision. My hope is that, together, we will build a culture of collaboration and always aim to be strategic, evidence-based, bold and people-focused. And that we will all treat each other with respect, civility and dignity. As MSU’s strategic plans underscore, our people are the beating heart of the institution. Hearing directly from Spartans, as I already have, will be a critical component of my leadership as we work together to meet our challenges and seize opportunities. With the timing of last week’s Miller & Chevalier report and last night’s special Board of Trustees meeting, I also want to assure all of you that I am prepared for this moment in time. Many of the activities described in the report are concerning, but I am assured that the Board is committed to following the good governance principles and practices they signed with me in December. That is what our university deserves, and what our community expects moving forward. As I said earlier, and it’s worth repeating, every member of our campus should be treated with dignity and respect. Thus, I will begin my tenure with a university community listening and learning tour, with plans to visit all our colleges and major administrative units. With your help, I will seek to identify a “true north” that will lead us to provide the very best education and workplace culture for Spartans and bold service to the public in the land-grant tradition. Students, you will often see me around campus on a walk or jog. Please join me so I can learn about you and your aspirations, and you can help me learn more about our campus landscape. As I engage our wonderfully vibrant and diverse community, I invite you to join me in charting the way forward by considering the following questions:
  1. What will it take for MSU to maintain and strengthen its position among the top-tier research institutions in the nation?
  2. How will it contribute to the great scientific, medical and social challenges of our time?
  3. And how will MSU continue to prepare students for careers and jobs that don’t yet exist?
These questions will help us identify MSU’s true north to map the journey in front of us. This is an exciting prospect, and I look forward to advancing MSU’s important role — and fundamental responsibility — as a global public research university serving the people of Michigan and the world. It is great to be here among so many dedicated and caring Spartans. I look forward to seeing you around campus, and if you see me, please say hi. Go Green!
Kevin M. Guskiewicz, Ph.D.
President
Professor, Department of Kinesiology

Michigan State University | Office of the President | March 4, 2024 | Background image of President Kevin Guskiewicz
 
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Professor, Department of Kinesiology? Sounds like they have a new President who will be enthusiastic about pushing the global academic research envelope and have an interest in sports. They must be sweating bullets in Ann Arbor. This guy could take their kinesiology majors! :)

On a serious note, this guy was the Chancellor at UNC Chapel Hill. He is a rock star neuroscientist and I lost count at about 20,000 citations of his research. Might be double that.

From wikipedia:
Kevin M. Guskiewicz, a neuroscientist, academic leader and concussion researcher, was appointed president-elect of Michigan State University on Dec. 8, 2023, by the MSU Board of Trustees and started as president on March 4, 2024.

A member of the University of North Carolina’s faculty since 1995 and founding director of the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center and the Center for the Study of Retired Athletes, Guskiewicz was appointed UNC’s Chancellor in 2019. He is a nationally recognized expert on sport-related concussions and maintains an active research portfolio, serving as co-principal investigator on two multi-center research grants. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers in the areas of sports medicine and neuroscience.

His team’s groundbreaking work has garnered numerous awards and has influenced concussion guidelines in the NFL and NCAA. In 2011, Guskiewicz received the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship for his innovative work on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of sport-related concussions. In 2011, he convinced the NFL and NCAA to change the kickoff rule, which resulted in a 50% reduction in concussions on kickoffs. In 2013, Time magazine named him a Game Changer, one of 18 “innovators and problem-solvers that are inspiring change in America.”

Guskiewicz earned a bachelor’s degree in athletic training from West Chester University, a master’s in exercise physiology/athletic training from the University of Pittsburgh and a doctorate in sports medicine from the University of Virginia.
 
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My Father, who had served as President of Alumni Assn, disliked Holbrook and Ed Jennings most of all the Presidents of tOSU ever. Heisman, applaud your knowledge of the President's legacies. Steve, thanks for all the great info. Sounds like the new guy's accomplishments were as outstanding as our now departed Johnson. Wish him better luck than she had.
 
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Read a bit ago that tOSU landed $1.6 Billion in grants. That was really great stuff about the growth of Money and Banking literacy in the Franklin County banking system. Does anyone know (I'm looking at you Steve 19) how much of the Buck six is attributable to the banking sector? Just asking because I don't know, nor have the patience to ferret it out on google....thanks in advance. PS, Command and Control is a learned skill. And I humbly disagree that a big boat command is not a transferrable skill to a big university. The systems and the players are different, but he's made his errors at Nebraska. Professors leave, and navy personnel can request transfers both. Finally, how deep was the interview pool for tOSU top job? Gotta believe that they were lining up to head up Buckeyeland. AND, Carter came up on top. Don't believe a trustee (you know the one), will be able to bully this dude around. Anyway, tOSU has had some croppers as their President....PS, wish we'd had that banking expertise around when I was in MBA school.
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I can answer a few things. Research funding is driven overwhelmingly by medical research, and it's not even close. While I've become a fan of Carter, he literally had nothing to with any of these research funds. In fact, the latest number is for a fiscal year that ended last July. It's a long process that's the result of his predecessors going back decades.

As for the job, it was tainted by Wexner and his wife's meddling and forcing out a very good President who wouldn't coddle them and turn the medical center/college into their own personal fiefdom. I'm sure that a lot of top candidates weren't interested. I agree that his background should allow him to handle Wexner better than that of a traditional academic. As for his tenure at Nebraska, his standing up for their faculty against the Governor was the biggest thing in making me come around to his appointment, and I think it's a skill that he's going to need in Columbus.
 
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I get Holbrook, but Ed Jennings essentially saved Ohio State from Jim Rhodes, John Millett and Fredo (OH) and put it back on track to be where it is today. Outside of Thompson (and Rutherford B Hayes if you count him since he was essentially the de-facto President when he returned from Washington), Jennings is the most important President in the university's history.
 
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TDunk said:
My nephew and his girlfriend graduated on Sunday. He said between the speaker and someone falling to their death in the stadium, it was probably the worst day he's experienced at OSU.
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Oh yeah.

At my commencement they gave a Dr of Humane letters to Marcel Marceau and he didn't even give a speech!

That and the ROTC assholes wouldn't let me go pee. Maybe they should have frisked me for the 8 beers and flask I had under my gown.
 
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So Slapshot overruled the entire list of proposed commencement speakers to invite some no-name bitcoin pimp. And it turns out that Slapshot is on the board of a bitcoin mining company. Gee, what a weird coincidence. I was cautiously optimistic about this guy but fuck him. I hope he enjoys the taste of Les Wexner's balls.
 
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