Story by Mary Bradley, Editor-in-Chief As Provost Jay Morgan steps down from his role to become vice president of Academic Affairs for the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, or CPE, Tim Todd, dean of the Arthur J. Bauernfeind College of Business, will fill the open spot as interim Provost. Starting in the fall semester, there will Read More
Story by Mary Bradley, Editor-in-Chief After five years in the office of Associate Provost and Provost, Jay Morgan will step down from his position effective June 30. In an email sent to the University, Morgan wrote that he will be returning to a tenured professor position in the Huston School of Agriculture for the 2015-16 academic year. Read More
The Jesse Stuart room in Pogue Library was a full house Friday as the Board of Regents met to discuss topics such as the Tennessee Valley Authority contract, tuition increases, Waterfield Library renovations and the campus tobacco policy amongst others. UPCOMING CHANGES With last week’s closures fresh on their minds, the regents approved negotiations with Read More
Interim President Tim Miller and Vice President of Academic Affairs Jay Morgan sent a campus-wide email addressing student concerns with the dissolve of the College of Health Sciences and Human Services. The email states: “For the past few months MSU has been working through balancing a budget deficit that occurred as a result of an Read More
Representatives from the Student Government Association, Faculty Senate and Staff Congress met recently to create a new inclement weather schedule. The new schedule proposed that all classes meeting before 9:30 a.m. will be canceled during inclement weather, and classes meeting after 9:30 a.m. will continue on regularly scheduled time. While the changes have not been Read More
Murray City Councilman Jay Morgan announced at last week at the council meeting he would resign at the end of the month to focus on his new job as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Murray State. Morgan said he would resign from the council effective June 30, the day before the start of Read More
Murray State’s campus will be visited by four potential provost candidates to fill Bonnie Higginson’s soon-to-be vacant position. The candidates are current Murray State associate provost of graduate studies, Jay Morgan; Charles McAdams, dean of the college of arts and sciences at Northwest Missouri State; Bahman Ghorasi, current executive director of Fenn Academy and Fenn Read More
More than 200 students with vehicles parked in the residential college parking lots and near Roy Stewart Stadium were greeted Monday morning by yellow Notice of Violation tickets from the Murray Police Department. The violation these students were being notified of: failure to purchase city stickers from the city of Murray as per the new Read More