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Michigan State University President Start year End year Reference Joseph R. Williams: 1857 1859 [3]Lewis R. Fiske: 1859 1862 Theophilus C. Abbot: 1862
Pages in category "Presidents of Michigan State University" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
John Alfred Hannah (October 9, 1902 – February 23, 1991) was president of Michigan State College (later Michigan State University) for 28 years (1941–1969), making him the longest serving of MSU's presidents. He is credited with transforming the school from a regional undergraduate college into a large national research institution.
Lou Anna Kimsey Simon is an American academic administrator who served as the 20th president of Michigan State University (MSU). Simon was appointed interim president of the university in 2003, then served as president from 2005 until her resignation in 2018.
The college then became Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. [33] During the 1950s, Michigan State University was the "preeminent" example of a group of former agricultural colleges which had already evolved into state colleges and were attempting to become research universities. [34]
As the newly appointed president of Michigan State University, Dr. Wharton will be the first Negro president of a major predominantly white college in the country." [ 6 ] Wharton's term of office, from 1970 to 1978, was often a turbulent one, featuring student demonstrations in 1970 and 1972.
Samuel L. Stanley Jr. (born January 11, 1954) is an American educator and biomedical researcher. He was president of Michigan State University from 2019 to November 2022, and president of Stony Brook University from 2009 to 2019.
On the school's centennial year of 1955, the State of Michigan officially designated the school as a university even though Hannah and others felt it had been one, in fact, for decades the College thus became Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. After the ratification of the Michigan Constitution of 1964, the university ...