Joseph Meyer on Nostr: The first president, who began at about the same time I did, built bridges with ...

The first president, who began at about the same time I did, built bridges with faculty members by focusing on their concerns about faculty salaries and the tenure process. He regularly met with faculty senators to improve the faculty experience—his focus on improving faculty salaries disappointed some staff members, but it was the right thing to do. The second president worked to increase enrollment by under-represented minority groups and enhance the prestige of the university by promoting research and travel opportunities to conferences. She, the first woman president in the university's history, led the institution to becoming a research institution that also continued to honor the university’s historical focus on quality teaching. (2/5)