Published: May 07, 2008 10:55 pm            

Kokomo’s Person finalist in Michigan

Chancellor has been at IU Kokomo since ’99

Indiana University Kokomo Chancellor Ruth Person will visit Flint, Mich., this week as a candidate for the job of chancellor of the University of Michigan at Flint.

According to the Flint Journal, Person will be in Flint today and Friday, and is the third candidate for the job to visit the campus.

Person could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

University of Michigan Flint has about 6,883 students enrolled in more than 70 undergraduate and 12 graduate programs, according to its Web site. In July 2007, university officials broke ground on its first residence hall, which is expected to be completed and occupied this fall.

Person has been chancellor of the Indiana University Kokomo campus since 1999. IU Kokomo’s fall enrollment was 2,835. Person’s academic credits include a Ph.D from University of Michigan in 1980.

She graduated from Gettysburg College in 1967 and began her career as a reference librarian at the Detroit Public Library. She then worked at Thomas Nelson Community College, which influenced her to enter the doctoral program in library and information science at the University of Michigan.

She later attended the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University, which provides opportunities for potential high-level administrators to try the job with a mentor.

Her first college administration job was as vice-president of academic affairs at Ashland University in Ohio. She later held that title at Angelo State University in Texas before coming to Kokomo.

        

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