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Having met President Paul Ferguson while in graduate school, Julie Hopwood has followed Ferguson since 2002 to three different universities before taking the chief of staff position at Ball State. Hopwood is the first chief of staff since John E. Worthen was president.
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Chief of staff position reinstated to connect president, campus KARA BERG CHIEF REPORTER | knberg2@bsu.edu For the past 12 years, Ball State’s new chief of staff, Julie Hopwood, has worked at four different universities from Nevada to Maine – but all for the same boss. The senior advisor to the president followed President Paul Ferguson to Ball State this year. She said she enjoys working with Ferguson and in the office environment he supports, compared to places she had worked at before. “It wasn’t that I had been in unhappy offices, I just hadn’t been in one where it was okay to continue to laugh, it was okay to be human, it was okay to just find that gratification in every day,” Hopwood said. This was one of the things that drew Hopwood to Ferguson. She wanted to work somewhere she would look forward to going to every day and be somewhere she could make a difference. Hopwood has been working with Ferguson since 2002, when she met him at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She was Ferguson’s graduate assistant and he was the vice president for research and graduate studies. Ferguson said it was her law degree and different perspective on the sophistication of higher education that made him work well with her. “I needed a partner that had that skill set that was kind of complementary to mine – law, broadcast journalism and public administration,” Ferguson said. “Those aren’t toxicology, which is my Ph.D. I’m an economic affairs and research guy.” Along with UNLV, Ferguson and Hopwood have worked together at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, University of Maine and now Ball State. Hopwood said because she has worked with Ferguson for so long, it made the transition to Ball State so much easier. Because they have that history, she said she knows him and knows what his vision is.
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Excellence in Leadership to spend $111,300 on speakers SHERYL WUDUNN
LAVERNE COX
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all State Excellence in Leadership is spending more than $111,300 on speaker fees and expenses this academic year. Speakers like Rainn Wilson, who plays Dwight in “The Office,” and Laverne Cox from “Orange is the New Black” are part of the 2014-15 lineup. Most speakers EIL brings are free for students and open to the public. EIL has a $131,025 budget this year, according to records from the University Office of Compliance. The university is spending $40,000 on Wilson alone and $20,000 for Cox. Last year EIL had a $157,410.59 budget. Funds from various co-sponsors each year, as well as from the EIL organization, enable Ball
Ball State President Paul Ferguson appointed Julie Halbig to the associate vice president for governmental relations position. Halbig was formerly a government relations specialist at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP in Indianapolis. “[Halbig] brings a wealth of experience to her new role and has built meaningful relationships in state government that will further the vision and mission of Ball State University,” Ferguson said in a press release. The associate vice president for governmental relations works as a liaison to the Commission for Higher Education and other state government agencies.
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State to pay for the speakers that come. The EIL Speaker Series brings a variety of professionals who have been suggested to the organization through email and surveys, as well as those who connect to leadership currently in the media. At the end of each EIL workshop, those running the program give surveys to students who belong to the organization. These surveys provide insight as to whom they wish to see on campus. Students can also request certain individuals by emailing the program. “We really try to listen to some of what the students are saying and what they are interested in,” said Lauren Berger, assistant director of Student Life.
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COST FOR 2013-2014 SPEAKERS
COST FOR 2014-2015 SPEAKERS
SOLEDAD O’BRIEN
LAUREN BUSH
SHERYL WUDUNN
LAVERNE COX
WIL HAYGOOD
BILL RASMUSSEN
JOSEPH “REV. RUN” SIMMONS
RAINN WILSON
$45,000 $15,000
$20,000
$19,500
$40,000
$18,400
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$20,000
$40,000
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SOURCE: Excellence in Leadership budget
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