MSU Regents Revote On Dunn Contract, ISU Passes Over Dunn For Flanagan

WKMS | By Todd Hatton

Published May 10, 2013 at 9:16 AM CDT

The Murray State Board of Regents again voted 7-4 against renewing President Randy Dunn’s contract this morning. The vote came after controversy surrounding a social gathering prior to the March meeting of the board. The Kentucky attorney general later determined the gathering was an illegal business meeting after a Lexington attorney filed an open meetings complaint. Although he was in the top three candidates for Illinois State University's presidency, ISU announced this morning it will hire Timothy Flanagan, president of Framingham State University. Dunn is still under consideration for the presidency at Youngstown State University in Ohio.

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Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.

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