2017201 7 20172 017 THE 2016201 6 SPARTANS PARTAN SPARTANS PARTAN HONORSH O N ORS & BOWLB O W L THE OUTLOOKOUTLOOO K SPARTANSSPAA RTAA N S STASTAFFFF RECORDSR E CORDS HISTORYHIS T O R Y AWARDSAWARDS HISTORYH I S T O R Y UNIVERSITYU N IVERS ITY 9 24924 LLLLLLLLLLL AA BALBABABABALBABBABBABABABAB OOOOOOOOOOOOO OOTOOOOT UFU_F MM @MSU_FOOTBALL@MS@M@M@MS@M@M@M@M@M@M@M@M@@M THE UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES BRIAN BRESLIN JOEL I. FERGUSON DIANNE BYRUM MELANIE FOSTER CHAIRMAN VICE CHAIRMAN ONONDAGA EAST LANSING ALTO LANSING DAN KELLY MITCH LYONS BRIAN MOSALLAM GEORGE PERLES CLARKSTON ROCKFORD DEARBORN EAST LANSING For biographical information, visit http://trustees.msu.edu Lou Anna K. Simon, the 20th president of Michigan State social sciences, engineering, and advanced physical THE UNIVERSITY LOU ANNA K. SIMON, PH.D. University, leads the university’s work to advance the sciences. She also leads its commitment to working at PRESIDENT common good in Michigan and around the world. Simon the forefront of emerging opportunities in areas such earned her doctorate at Michigan State in 1974 and held as bioengineering, medicine and genomics, advanced MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY a variety of administrative roles at the university, including mobility, and computation. assistant provost for general academic administration, Simon is a past chair and current board member of associate provost, and provost and vice president for the Association of American Universities, a group of 62 academic affairs. The MSU Board of Trustees appointed leading U.S. and Canadian research universities. She her president in January 2005. is a member of the American Council on Education As president, Simon has engaged Michigan State in and, as a past chair of the National Collegiate Athletic a strategic and transformative journey to adapt the Association Executive Committee, serves as an ex offi cio principles of its land-grant heritage to 21st-century administrative committee member. She is a long-standing challenges. Her initiatives in learning, research, and member of the National Security Higher Education international engagement refl ect MSU’s commitment to Advisory Board. applying knowledge to benefi t society. She outlined these Simon’s activity in economic development has placed her commitments and the philosophy behind them in her on the Council on Competitiveness and the Business- monograph, Embracing the World Grant Ideal: Affi rming Higher Education Forum, both national organizations the Morrill Act for a Twenty-fi rst-century Global Society. focused on U.S. economic competitiveness and Simon’s vision includes building an inclusive and engaged prosperity. She serves on the board of directors of academic community where every student graduates as Business Leaders for Michigan and is past chair of the a skilled and sought-after citizen-scholar. MSU’s Student Detroit Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Success initiative is critical to that effort, and its outcomes She also is an advisory committee member of the are refl ected in Michigan State’s top standing for student Detroit Innovation District, which promotes small business engagement among public research universities. growth and job creation in the city. With the support of external funding now exceeding Building on more than 50 years of development work and $580 million annually, Simon helps ensure that MSU is research in Africa by MSU faculty members, Simon is a making an enduring difference regionally and globally member of the executive committee of the Partnership by fi nding solutions to the world’s great challenges. She to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa and speaks to has expanded MSU’s reach through its internationally scholarly international gatherings about global food and regarded research in food, water, education and development issues. 250 2017 MICHIGAN STATE FOOTBALL Future events Hollis designed include a 16-team men’s Headlined by a Big Ten Championship in football, the school’s ATHLETICS DIRECTOR college basketball tournament with Nike-sponsored schools third conference title in six years, the Spartans fi nished in the in Portland, Oregon, in November 2017 to celebrate Nike top 50 of the Learfi eld Sports Directors’ Cup standings for an OUTLOOK MARK HOLLIS President Phil Knight’s 80th birthday. 18th consecutive year in 2015-16. Michigan State earned a 2017 Hollis was instrumental in landing a strategic long-range berth in the College Football Playoff following its victory over partnership between MSU Athletics and FOX Sports that No. 4 Iowa in the Big Ten Championship Game and fi nished was announced in April 2016. The two parties agreed in the top 10 of the national polls for the third season in a row to a new multimedia rights deal effective for the 2016- (No. 3 in 2013, No. 4 in 2014, No. 6 in 2016), a fi rst for the SPARTANS program since 1955-57. The men’s basketball team set a 17 academic year in which MSU will grant FOX Sports 2017 marketing and corporate partnership rights associated with conference record by winning its fi fth Big Ten Tournament title its 25 varsity sports programs. The rights will be managed and established a Big Ten record by advancing to the NCAA by FOX Sports College Properties, a division of FOX-owned Tournament for the 19th year in a row. Men’s and women’s Home Team Sports, and will include in-venue signage, print, cross country, men’s and women’s golf, volleyball, women’s radio, television programming, corporate hospitality, digital basketball and women’s gymnastics also advanced to their respective NCAA Championships. STAFF and social media integration, promotional and experiential THE activities, and intellectual property rights and offi cial Spartan athletic facilities have been upgraded at an designations. The 15-year agreement will provide guaranteed unprecedented rate the past decade – including more than revenues in excess of $150 million. $115 million at Spartan Stadium – and will only continue to In June 2015, Hollis was named the recipient of the National improve under Hollis. A $13 million addition to the south end of Spartan Stadium is scheduled to open prior to the 2017 RECAP Football Foundation John L. Toner Award, which is presented 2016 annually to an athletics director who has demonstrated season. Construction on the 20,000-square-foot single-story superior administrative abilities and shown outstanding project, which began in February 2017, will include the dedication to college athletics and particularly college football. addition of 236 bathrooms, four concession stand areas, Hollis was offi cially honored at the 58th NFF Annual Awards and movement of the ticket entrances out from the stadium “We gather and engage our community to teach, support and structure to create donor plazas and renovated gates similar RECORDS Dinner on Dec. 8, 2015, at the Waldorf Astoria in New York SPARTAN celebrate our student-athletes in their quest for excellence.” City. to the North End Zone. A $24.5 million project to the north This is the vision Michigan State Athletics Director Mark end of Spartan Stadium was completed in August 2014 that During Hollis’ tenure, Michigan State student-athletes have Hollis has for Spartan Athletics. Hollis, who was named features a two-story, 50,000-square-foot addition as well as excelled not only in competition, but in the classroom as well. the 2012 Athletic Director of the Year by Street & Smith’s an entrance plaza, renovated gates, and additional restrooms For 13 consecutive semesters, Spartan student-athletes have SportsBusiness Journal/Daily, is in his 10th year leading the and concessions. The building includes new locker rooms posted better than a 3.0 cumulative grade-point average. for teams, coaches and offi cials, a media center, and an SPARTAN MSU Athletics Department. He offi cially assumed the role of HISTORY More than 400 student-athletes (426) posted a cumulative MSU’s 18th athletics director on Jan. 1, 2008, succeeding engagement center for all varsity sports. Prior to the 2012 GPA above 3.0 in the spring semester of 2017, marking the Ron Mason. season, $10 million scoreboards, totaling 13,300-square-feet, highest total in the history of the department for the spring, were installed in the north and south end zones, giving MSU Hollis has more than 30 years of athletics administration and 18 teams maintained a cumulative 3.0 GPA. The spring one of the top video board systems in the nation. experience, either at the school or conference level. His well- semester of 2017 also saw Spartan student-athletes compile rounded background has led to his knowledge of all areas both the highest spring term in program history (3.1009) and The Spartans moved into one of the nation’s fi nest football HONORS & within an athletics department, including marketing, fi nancial the highest cumulative grade-point average in department facilities in August 2008, as a $15 million expansion and AWARDS administration, television negotiations, fund-raising, game history at 3.1380. Additionally, 291 student-athletes earned renovation project for the Duffy Daugherty Football Building operations, facility management, personnel policy, corporate Academic All-Big Ten honors and 102 garnered Big Ten was completed. MSU alumni Robert and Julie Skandalaris interaction, sports management and public relations. Distinguished Scholar accolades throughout the 2016-17 of Bloomfi eld Hills, Michigan, donated $5 million as the lead gift for the facility expansion and upgrade. The Skandalaris A 1985 MSU graduate, Hollis returned to his alma mater in academic year. Furthermore, 315 student-athletes were honored at the 2017 SASS Academic Excellence Gala Football Center includes team, staff and position meeting 1995 as the associate athletics director for external relations. rooms, coaches’ offi ces and a hall of history. In the summer HISTORY Since then, he has been a critical component of the athletic (student-athletes with at least a sophomore academic BOWL standing and a 3.0 or better cumulative GPA).