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in the University's administration
were both held by women and the
first time that neither the University
president nor the provost was hired
from within the University.
The latter fact caused some in
the University community to raise
objections, claiming that Coleman
had applied pressure on the search
advisory committee to give prefer-
ence to candidates from outside the
University.
Reports by The Michigan Daily at
the time outlined allegations from
sources familiar with the process
who claimed Coleman had leaned
on committee members to only
recommend outside candidates for
the position. Coleman denied such
action in several interviews after
the allegations were raised.
Criticism of the nine-month,
national search that resulted in
Sullivan's hiring also came from
a member of the Senate Advisory
Committee on University Affairs at
the time. In response to claims that
she was neglecting to consult fac-
ulty on the decision, Coleman told
SACUA members that the decision
was hers alone, the Daily reported.
In response to a request from the
Daily yesterday, University spokes-
woman Kelly Cunningham said
in an e-mail that it was too soon to
comment on how Sullivan's succes-
sor would be chosen.
"We're fortunate that the provost
has giventhe University time to con-
sider the next steps in the process,"
Cunningham wrote. "I don't have
anything to report right now."
And while details of who will
serve on the advisory search com-
mittee for the next provost have yet
to be released, many administrators
and regents are hoping Sullivan's
replacement will be someone who
exemplifies some of the same quali-
ties Sullivanbrought to the table.
Dean of Libraries Paul Courant,
who served as the University's pro-
vost from 2002 to 2005, said in an
interview yesterday the two main
tasks of the provost - controlling
the budget and academics at the
University - will require a unique
set of qualifications from Sullivan's
successor.
"The provost is the chief aca-
demic officer and the chief budget
officer at the institution," Courant
said. "The budget times are going
to be tough over the next while and
the provost has to be able to ensure
that the academic missions of the
university - learning, teaching,

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research - are always in the fore-
ground as choices are made, espe-
cially in tough times.
However, Courant said he is con-
fident a candidate with the right set
of skills will emerge to take over as
provost.
"We've always had provosts who
are willing and able to do that and I
have every confidence that the next
one will as well," he said.
Despite his confidence that a
suitable candidate will be found to
replace Sullivan,
Courant said it was too early to
speculate whether the next provost
would be chosen from within the
University or from the outside.
"I just wouldn't want to specu-
late," Courant said. "The president
will make the choice;she will choose
the best person for the job."
"It's often the case that provosts
come from inside because it's useful
to know how the University works.
I think that's why it's been that
way in the past," Courant contin-
ued. "Yet, Terry was an extremely
effective and successful provost
here so it's clear that one can come
from outside do very, very well in
the job."
James Duderstadt, who served
as University President from 1988
to 1996 and also served as a Univer-
sity provost after rising through the
University's internal ranks, said an
innate knowledge of how to provide
a quality education will be essential
for Sullivan's replacement.
"(The Provost has) to have a deep
understanding of academic priori-
ties, what makes a great university
function and appreciation for fac-
ulty roles," Duderstadt said;
However, Duderstadt said that,
all things considered, having a suc-
cessful replacement will come down
to the quality of the relationship the
next provost will have with Coleman.
"In the end I think it's very much
a relationship between the provost
and president which makes univer-
sities work well," Duderstadt said.
Duderstadt said that, based on
her selection of Sullivan, he believes
Coleman will choose a quality indi-
vidual to fill the position.
And though he didn't mention
the names of potential replace-
ments, Duderstadt did say the Uni-
versity traditionally hires provosts
who have great leadership poten-
tial, including the ability to go on to
become presidents of universities,
like Sullivan and himself.
"The provost position at Michi-
gan has produced some of the great
presidents in this country. That's
what people look to it for," Duder-
stadt said. "That's what Michigan

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Provost Teresa Sullivan greets guests at the Michigan League during a welcomeV
reception during her first couple days as a University provost in September 2006.

presidents look for. We look for
provosts who have the capability to
provide that kind of leadership at
the national level."
Duderstadt said he believes the
search for the next provost will
include looking for both internal
and external candidates and that it's
possible a dean from within the Uni-
versity could rise to the position.
"We have some very capable
deans right now and that's the first
pool you look at," he said. "There's a
lot of talent inside, but there's a lot of
talent as you look across the country
right now."
Vice President and General
Counsel Suellyn Scarnecchia told
the Daily yesterday that in addition
to being able to balance academic
and budgetary concerns, she thinks
it will be very important for Sulli-
van's successor to engage the cam-
pus community if he or she hopes to
be successful.
"I think is very important that
a successor is someone who - like
Provost Sullivan - will listen to all
the different constituencies, which
she did quite religiously," Scarnec-
chia said. "I think that has helped
us get through some of these more
difficult times."
In an interview yesterday, Regent
Andrew Richner (R-Grosse Pointe
Park), who currently serves as

chairman of the University Board
of Regents, outlined key character-
istics he said he believed Sullivan's
successor musthave.
"We'll need someone that has
skills like those that Terry Sullivan
demonstrated, which is the ability
to deal with (budget) challenges in
an effective way," Richner said.
Regent Julia Darlow (D-Ann
Arbor) echoed Richner in an inter-
view yesterday, saying Sullivan's
successor will need to be able to bal-
ance budgeting and academics.
"The person who succeeds her
will have big shoes to fill," Darlow
said. "I understand even bigger than
most provost shoes, because ours
handles financial responsibilities as
well as the academic responsibility."
Despite the high expectations,
Regent Andrea Fisher-Newman
(R-Ann Arbor) said she remains
confident that Coleman will be able
to finda suitable replacement.
"They're going to be big shoes to
fill and we have the same president
charged with the responsibility of
finding someone to fill those shoes,"
Newman said. "I have every confi-
dence that President Coleman will
be able to do it again."
- Daily Staff Reporters Joseph
Lichterman and Annie Gordon
Thomas contributed to this report.


FLEMING
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Wright, his legal middle name.
Fleming graduated from high
school as valedictorian of his class.
Fleming's father had died from
tuberculosis in 1933, and Fleming's
mother could not afford to send
him to an expensive university. As
a result, he decided to attend Beloit
College in 1938, a small liberal arts
college, where he received a scholar-
ship and worked jobs mopping floors
and waiting tables in the dining hall
on campus.
As a sophomore Fleming met Sally
Quixley, who also worked in the din-
ing hall. Soon after, the two started
dating.
"She was a beautiful, dark-haired,
slender girl of five feet six and was
in many ways everything I was not,"
Fleming wrote in his book. "She
played the violin beautifully, she
sang in the choir, she loved music,
she won the poetry reading contest
her freshman year, and she was a
very good swimmer while I had all
the buoyancy of a rock."
After graduating with a bacca-
laureate. degree, Fleming decided
to attend law school. He enrolled at
the University of Wisconsin, where
he paid the tuition by working long
hours at the Law Library.
While at Wisconsin, he studied
industrial relations and labor law
and ultimately received his degree
in 1941.
He then went to work as a junior
attorney in the Corporate Reorgani-
zation Division of the Securities and
Exchange Commission in Washing-
ton. Sally soon joined him and took
a job as a secretary for an insurance
company in Washington. During
the holiday season in 1941, Fleming
proposed to Sally, who immediately
accepted.
The two were married in April
1942, a few months before Fleming
was drafted in the army.
Fleming served in the army for six
years. After finishing his services he
returned to the University of Wis-
consin where he became an assis-
tant professor and the director of
the Industrial Relations Center - an
institute that combined teaching and
research with the goal of to contrib-
uting to industrial peace.
In 1964, Fleming was named the
first chancellor of the University
of Wisconsin. Through the newly-
created position, Fleming traveled
outside the country to work on uni-
versityprojects inplaceslike Nigeria,

France, Germany and Japan.
Besides working on developments
in foreign nations, Fleming dealt
with many controversies centered
around the Vietnam War on cam-
pus. In his book, Fleming cited one
incident when student protesters
took over the administrative offices
where he worked and threatened to
hold him hostage unless he agreed to
their demands.
After serving three years as chan-
cellor, Fleming received a phone call
from University of Michigan Regent
Robert Briggs, who asked to discuss
the position of University President.
Around the same time, the Uni-
versity of Minnesota also contacted
Fleming about considering becoming
the president of their university.
After visiting both universities,
Fleming wrote in his autobiogra-
phy that he decided to take the job
at Michigan, though it was no easy
choice.
"It was a very hard decision to
make, but some of the factors that
went into the decisionwere the fact
that we preferred a small city (Ann
Arbor) over a big city (Minneapolis-
St. Paul), we shivered a little at the
thought of going still further north,
and we knew that Michigan was one
of the two or three best public uni-
versities in the country."
Fleming officially took office on
Jan. 1, 1968.
In his autobiography, Fleming
discussed his experience leading
the campus at the height of the Viet-
nam War. Fleming found the days
after President Lyndon Johnson
announced he would not run for a
second term especially noteworthy.
In the book, he recalls that a large
crowd of students formed outside
the President's House, demanding
answers to the University's involve-
ment in war research.
Fleming wrote the raucous was
so loud that his attempts to answer
the students' questions could not be
heard.
"So I suggested they sit down in
the yard and quiet down so I could
reply," he wrote. "They did, and the
crowd grew bigger until the entire
street was closed off. Draftcards and
flags were being burned, antiwar
signs were all over the place, and, to
my horror, a Confederate flag sud-
denly floated out of a third floor win-
dow of our house."
While the crowd was restless,
Fleming wrote no violence occurred
that night and students left to gather
at the Union after he spent an hour
answering their questions.
Besides dealing with Vietnam

protests, Fleming handled conten-
tious civil rights issues on campus.
On March 20, 1970, the Black
Action Movement - a group of
University activists - declared a
University-wide strike to protest the
University's goal of achieving10-per-
cent African-American enrollment
in the next three years. BAM wanted
the University to turn the goal into a
commitment.
After more than a week of disrupt-
ed classes and faculty unrest, Flem-
ing met with BAM and Secretary
of Regents Herbert Hildebrandt to
negotiate the University's stance on
the issue.
In his autobiography, Fleming
wrote he stood by his decision to
make the enrollment policy a goal.
"We were not prepared to take
just any high school graduate in
order to achieve a 10 percent figure,"
he wrote, "and all of the data we had
gathered convinced us that we could
reach the goal without doing that."
The parties debated the issue
until 4 a.m. on March 30 when they
agreed to let the University establish
a goal of reaching 10 percent African
American enrollment as long as the
University provided financial aide to
make the goal realistic.
Fleming wrote he believed he
handled the situation well and that
he wouldn't change his decisions if
he had the chance.
"The bottom line was that we
avoided serious violence, we estab-
lished much-needed programs for
the advancement of black people,
and no one would argue today that
the image of the University of Michi-
gan as one of the great universities of
the world was diminished by what
happened then," he wrote.
In an obituary released by the
University yesterday, Hildebrandt
said though Fleming held the post of
University president in tense times
he was always open to listening to
students' concerns.
He recalled the incident when
Flemingmet with BAM student lead-
ers to resolve the enrollnent conflict
withoutviolence.
"Under extreme oral provoca-
tion," Hildebrandt said, "he consis-
tently responded with: 'I hear you;
please tell me your position."'
Sally followed her husband's lead
and became an active member of the
University community. Throughout
her husband's presidency, Sally host-
ed numerous dinners, luncheons and
teas for University groups.
As part of her musical interests,
Sally played the piano and violin.
In 1997, the Sally Fleming Master

Classes - aimed at providing School
of Music, Theatre and Dance stu-
dents the opportunity to work with
renowned artists - were named in
her honor.
The Fleming Administration
Building - built in the 1960s - was
also named in honor of the Flemings.
After Fleming left the University
in 1979 he became the president of
the Corporation for Public Broad-
casting. While he worked with the
CPBthroughoutthenexttwoyears to
achieve funding for educational tele-
vision programming, he remained an
advisor to the University.
Fleming returned to the University
in 1981 as a full-time law professor.
At the University Board of
Regents meeting in December 1985
the regents named Fleming profes-
sor emeritus of law and president
emeritus.
In the memoir, the Regents wrote,
"Fleming has been a dedicated teach-
er of the law and leader of national
stature in the field of arbitration. He
has been a versatile and compassion-
ate administrator."
When former President Harold
Shapiro resigned from presidency
in 1988, Fleming became the inter-
im president for eight months until
James Duderstadt was selected as
the new president.
During this time, Fleming once
again acted as a mediator when
groups of students alleged they were
experiencing racial, sexual and gay-
lesbian discrimination.
Fleming tried to devise an adjudi-
cation system to address discrimina-
tion concerns, but the effort failed
when a federal district judge ruled
that it violated the First Amend-
ment.
After completing his time at the
University, Fleming served in mul-
tiple positions. From 1985 to 1990, he
served as a representative to Michi-
gan Governor James Blanchard by
findingsolutions to medical malprac-
tices that would appease lawyers,
doctors, hospitals and insurance
companies.
In the 1990's Fleming worked on
various legal issues, serving as an
expert witness in cases involving
higher education.
Fleming is preceded in death by
Sally, who passed away on April 15,
2005 in Naples, Florida at age 87, and
is survivedby the couple's three chil-
dren - Nancy Jo, James Edmund
and Carolyn Elizabeth - as well as
several grandchildren.
- Daily News Editor Kyle Swanson
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public universities. Casteen
maintained that level of excel-
lence throughout a period dur-
ing which the proportion of the
school's budget covered by state
funding fell from 26 percent to 7
percent, according to The Wash-
ington Post.
Similarly, Sullivan spent much
of her time in Ann Arbor dealing
with the fallout from declines in
higher education appropriations
from the state. Facing Michigan's
worsening economic crisis, Sulli-
van made a name for herself as a
consummate cost cutter - trim-
ming excess at the University by
reducing energy costs, revamp-
ing office supply purchases and
launching an initiative to make
more efficient use of classrooms
and other space on campus,
among other efforts.
Sullivan currently oversees
$1.5 billion of the University's
$5.4 billion budget, according to
a UVA press release from yester-
day.
In an e-mail to the Ann Arbor
campus community, University
President Mary Sue Coleman
wrote that the University has
greatly benefited from Sullivan's
leadership.
"Since joining U-M in 2006,
Provost Sullivan has provided a
level of academic and budgetary
acumen that has solidified and
advanced the University at all
levels," Coleman wrote.
State funding has remained
relatively stagnant during Sul-
livan's time at the University,
after it experienced a free fall in
2003, plummeting by about 10
percent. In the fiscal year 2010
budget, state funding constitutes
about 22 percent of revenues in
the University's General Fund,
while tuition and fees account for
slightly more than 65 percent. For
comparison, in 2000, state fund-
ing composed a little more than
35 percent of General Fund, while
tuition and fees made up just over
50 percent.
That trend is nothing new for
the University, though, as data
during the 1960s show that nearly
80 percent of the General Fund
was made up by state funding, and
tuition and fees only accounted
for about 20 percent of the fund.
In an interview with The
Michigan Daily in December,
Sullivan discussed a potential
"historic" drop in state funding at
Michigan - as much as a 20-per-
cent reduction - that she would
have to consider when formulat-
ing next year's budget.
"It doesn't mean the state
legislature doesn't like higher
education, it just means they're
not getting enough revenue, and
they've got to find something that
can be cut because the constitu-
tion requires a balanced budget,"
she told the Daily at the time. "It's
a very difficult place to be."
According to UVA's press
release, Sullivan is "looking for-
ward" to the challenges that the
Board of Visitors have identified
for the next president. Among
them is the task of "focusing on a
financial model that will ensure
the long-term health of the Uni-
versity."
Sullivan - who has extensive
experience working at public
universities - began her career
at the University of Texas at Aus-
tin. Through her 27 years at the

University of Texas, Sullivan rose
through the leadership ranks,
eventually becoming executive
vice chancellor for academic
affairs for the university's system
in 2002.
According to UVA's press
release, Sullivan chose to take the
position at UVA because of the
school's strong academic reputa-
tion and the university's commit-
ment to public higher education.
"It is one of the truly great pub-
lic universities in the country,"
she wrote in the release. "In fact,
it is one of the great universities
in the world."
According to the Chronicle of
Higher Education, Sullivan will
operate under a five-year contract
with a base salary of $485,000,
$180,000 in deferred compensa-
tion and $15,000 in an automo-
bile allowance - resulting in an
overall compensation package of
$680,000.
University of Michigan Presi-
dent Mary Sue Coleman makes
$553,000 in base pay and about

$800,000 when deferred com-
pensation, bonuses and other
benefits are included.
Coleman wrote in the campus-
wide e-mail that Sullivan will
continue working at the Universi-
ty until July 31 and that she plans
to name Sullivan's successor prior
to that date.
She added that the news comes
with "deep pride and a tinge of
sadness."
In a statement released to the
Daily, Coleman praised Sullivan's
people skills and "sparkling intel-
lect."
"Working with her has been
one of the highlights of my career,
and although we will all miss her,
we take pride in knowing that
she will preside over one of the
nation's great public universi-
ties," Coleman said.
James Duderstadt, who served
as University president from 1988
to 1996, told the Daily yesterday
that though Sullivan was a smart
choice for Virginia, the move will
be a big loss for Michigan.
"She's made superb appoint-
ments as deans - which is one of
the most important things a pro-
vost can do - and she's been very
skillful, along with the president
and chief financial officer, at nav-
igating Michigan through one of
the most difficult economic peri-
ods in its history," Duderstadt
said. "She is a very important
addition to this university, but
she will simply be an outstanding
leader for the University of Vir-
ginia.
Dean ofLibraries PaulCourant,
who served as University provost
from 2002 to 2005, said he heard
Sullivan would be named UVA's
next president yesterday morning
and that he was excited for her.
"My reaction was that she's
been a terrific provost hereand
she's clearly ready to be a presi-
dent," Courant said. "Virginia's
a great place and it looks like a
match made in heaven."
In an interview yesterday,
Regent Andrea Fisher-Newman
(R-Ann Arbor) said she was
happy for Sullivan.
"I'm so excited for Terry, and
UVA is so lucky," Newman said.
"It's hard not to be really happy
and really proud of someone you
havea lot of respect for."
"She is a very matter-of-fact,
down-to-earth individual who
when telling you good news or
bad news did it in a very mea-
sured, factual manner without
glossing over any of the details,"
Newman said of Sullivan.
"She was a great delegator and
also someone who regularly gave
credit to others. She did every-
thing in a quiet, yet substantive,
manner."
Regent Andrew Richner
(R-Grosse Pointe Park) told
the Daily that, in some ways, he
wasn't surprised by yesterday's
announcement.
"It was clear to me early on that
Terry Sullivan is made of presi-
dential material," Richner said.
"She is a respected academic -
smart, capable, adept in handling
a very challenging budget situa-
tion in her position as provost."
"From that standpoint, it didn't
come as a surprise that she might
be a highly sought-after candidate
for the presidency of the Universi-
ty of Virginia," he continued. "We
will miss her, but I think Provost
Sullivan's hiring at the Univer-
sity of Virginia is indicative of the

strength and depth of leadership
that we have at the University of
Michigan starting at the top with
our president, Mary Sue Cole-
man."
Regent Julia Darlow (D-Ann
Arbor) said yesterday that she
admires UVA for selecting some-
one as qualified as Sullivan as its
next president.
"All of us are overjoyed for her,"
Darlow said. "She's been invalu-
able at the University of Michigan
and we will miss hergreatly."
In an interview with the Daily
yesterday, Vice President and
General Counsel Suellyn Scar-
necchia expressed mixed emo-
tions about Sullivan's move to the
University of Virginia.
"I feel extremely happy for
the University of Virginia and
extremely happy for Provost Sul-
livan," she said. "ButI do feel sad
that we're losing her."
- Daily News Editors Jillian
Berman and Kyle Swanson
contributed to this report.