UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2014 OUTLOOK 2014 SPARTANS JOEL I. FERGUSON BRIAN BRESLIN DIANNE BYRUM MITCH LYONS CHAIRMAN VICE CHAIRMAN ONONDAGA ROCKFORD LANSING ALTO STAFF COACHING 2013 RECAP BRIAN MOSALLAM FAYLENE OWEN GEORGE PERLES DIANN WOODARD DEARBORN EAST LANSING EAST LANSING BROWNSTOWN TOWNSHIP For biographical information, visit http://trustees.msu.edu SPARTAN RECORDS Lou Anna K. Simon, the 20th president of Michigan State organization working to ensure U.S. prosperity. She LOU ANNA K. SIMON, PH.D. University, leads the university’s work to advance the serves as chair of the National Security Higher Education PRESIDENT common good in Michigan and around the world. An Advisory Board, a group of presidents and chancellors MSU graduate, she began her career at Michigan State of several prominent U.S. universities that consults HISTORY SPARTAN MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY after earning her doctorate in 1974. From there, she regularly with national agencies responsible for security, moved into a variety of administrative roles, including intelligence, and law enforcement. She also serves as assistant provost for general academic administration, chair of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s associate provost, and provost and vice president for executive committee, the association’s overarching academic affairs. The MSU Board of Trustees appointed governing panel. her president in January 2005. Simon’s resolute commitment to advancing Michigan’s As president, Simon has engaged Michigan State in economic future has been a hallmark of her presidency. AWARDS a strategic and transformative journey to adapt the She serves on the board of directors of Business Leaders HONORS & principles of the land-grant tradition to 21st-century for Michigan and the Detroit Branch of the Federal challenges. She has expanded MSU’s reach in the Reserve Bank of Chicago. In the area of international state and around the world by focusing the university’s engagement, Simon is a member of the executive strengths on solutions that enhance and protect quality committee of the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty of life: clean and affordable energy, access to education, in Africa. safe and plentiful food, and health care. She outlined Research at Michigan State University refl ects Simon’s BOWL these commitments and the philosophy driving them commitment to advancing knowledge and discovery to HISTORY in her monograph, Embracing the World Grant Ideal: improve quality of life. Under her leadership, MSU has Affi rming the Morrill Act for a Twenty-fi rst-century Global expanded its research in, among other areas, biofuels Society. and green energy, medicine and medical technology, Simon’s key initiatives, particularly in economic physics and rare isotopes, safe water, and agriculture development and international engagement, refl ect her to address world hunger. With the support of external commitment to applying knowledge to benefi t society funding now exceeding $500 million annually, Simon is THE and further the global common good. Simon is a member helping ensure that MSU makes a signifi cant positive of the American Council on Education and the Council difference locally and globally. UNIVERSITY on Competitiveness, a nonpartisan, nongovernmental 204 MICHIGAN STATE FOOTBALL • MSUSPARTANS.COM ATHLETICS DIRECTOR MARK HOLLIS polls, defeated No. 5 Stanford in the 100th Rose Bowl Game, In 2011-12, MSU won three Big Ten Championships and topped No. 2 Ohio State in the Big Ten Championship (women’s cross country, men’s basketball and women’s golf) Game. In addition to winning the Big Ten Tournament, fi eld and the football team won the 2011 Big Ten Legends Division OUTLOOK hockey advanced to the Elite Eight, along with men’s soccer, title and played in the inaugural Big Ten Championship 2014 and volleyball reached the regional round of the NCAA Game. The Spartans fi nished ranked No. 10 in the fi nal USA Tournament for the second year in a row. MSU maintained TODAY Coaches Poll after winning 11 games, including a its excellence in women’s cross country and women’s golf, as dramatic 33-30 triple-overtime victory over Georgia in the both programs captured their third Big Ten title in four years. 2012 Outback Bowl. The men’s basketball team captured On the hardwood, men’s basketball won its fourth Big Ten a share of the conference regular-season championship, Tournament title and reached the Elite Eight for the eighth won the 2012 Big Ten Tournament title, and advanced to time in the past 16 years, while the women’s team claimed its the NCAA Sweet 16. Overall, nine sports participated in their second Big Ten regular-season championship in four years respective team NCAA Championships, while individuals SPARTANS and received its sixth consecutive NCAA bid. competed in fi ve more NCAA Championships. The Spartans 2014 During Hollis’ tenure, Michigan State student-athletes have fi nished 34th overall in the 2011-12 Directors’ Cup standings. excelled not only in competition, but in the classroom as well. Michigan State had a banner year in 2010-11, winning fi ve Big For seven consecutive semesters, Spartan student-athletes Ten Championships. The football team won a then school- have posted better than a 3.0 cumulative grade-point average. record 11 games and claimed the program’s seventh Big Nearly 400 student-athletes (398) posted a cumulative GPA Ten Championship, the baseball team won its fi rst Big Ten above 3.0 in the spring semester of 2014, marking the title since 1979, while the women’s cross country, women’s second-highest total in the history of the department, and basketball and women’s golf teams also won conference COACHING 17 teams also reached that mark. Additionally, 268 student- championships. In 2009-10, the men’s basketball team “We gather and engage our community to teach, support and STAFF celebrate our student-athletes in their quest for excellence.” athletes earned Academic All-Big Ten honors throughout the advanced to the Final Four for the sixth time in the last 12 2013-14 academic year, including 59 Big Ten Distinguished years and won its second-straight Big Ten regular-season This is the vision Michigan State Athletics Director Mark Scholars (min. 3.7 GPA). In the spring of 2012, the athletics title, and fi eld hockey captured both the Big Ten regular- Hollis has for Spartan Athletics. Hollis, who was named department compiled the highest grade-point average in season and tournament championships. the 2012 Athletic Director of the Year by Street & Smith’s program history with a 3.0644. The graduation success rate One of Hollis’ major goals upon becoming athletics director SportsBusiness Journal/Daily, is in his seventh year leading under Hollis is a remarkable 87 percent. the MSU Athletics Department. He offi cially assumed the role was accomplished in 2010 when he unveiled the new of MSU’s 18th athletics director on Jan. 1, 2008, succeeding Spartan athletic facilities have been upgraded at an brand and identity program for the athletics department. All Ron Mason. unprecedented rate the past decade – including more than of Michigan State’s uniforms now incorporate consistent $100 million at Spartan Stadium – and will only continue to use of colors, logos, lettering and numerals along with RECAP Hollis has more than 25 years of athletics administration improve under Hollis. A $24.5 million project to the north standardization for logos. 2013 experience, either at the school or conference level. His well- end of Spartan Stadium was completed in August 2014 that rounded background has led to his knowledge of all areas In Hollis’ fi rst full season as athletics director in 2008-09, features a two-story, 50,000-square-foot addition as well as Michigan State enjoyed one of its most successful years of within an athletics department, including marketing, fi nancial an entrance plaza, renovated gates, and additional restrooms administration, television negotiations, fund-raising, game the decade with a 27th-place fi nish in the Directors’ Cup, and concessions. The building includes new locker rooms the best showing for the department since 2003 and the operations, facility management, personnel policy, corporate for teams, coaches and offi cials, a media center, and an interaction, sports management and public relations. third highest in the department’s history. Ten teams earned engagement center for all varsity sports. Former All-America bids to their respective NCAA Championships, led by men’s RECORDS A 1985 MSU graduate, Hollis returned to his alma mater in offensive lineman Flozell Adams provided a leadership gift of basketball, which reached the national title game against SPARTAN 1995. Since then, he has been a critical component of the $1.5 million for MSU’s new locker room, which is named in North Carolina while also winning the Big Ten regular-season athletic department executive management staff, helping honor of his later mother, Rachel Adams. Prior to the 2012 championship. guide the department through short- and long-range plans. season, $10 million scoreboards, totaling 13,300-square-feet, In addition, Hollis is chair of the NCAA Division I Amateurism were installed in the north and south end zones, giving MSU Hollis was named athletics director-designate on Sept. 12, Cabinet, a member of the NCAA’s Men’s Basketball Issues one of the top video board systems in the nation. 2007, and teamed with Mason in the transition throughout the fall of 2007. Prior to his offi cial appointment as athletics Committee, and a member of the Division I Men’s Basketball The Spartans moved into one of the nation’s fi nest football Committee. director, Hollis played a lead role in two signifi cant head facilities in August 2008, as a $15 million expansion and coaching searches during the 2006-07 year. He spearheaded Since his offi cial appointment as athletics director began in renovation project for the Duffy Daugherty Football Building the effort to hire Mark Dantonio as football coach, which SPARTAN 2008, the Spartans have won 25 Big Ten Championships was completed.