LANSING (MI)
Detroit Free Press
July 16, 2018
By David Jesse
Michigan State University interim President John Engler was clear: MSU was going to have a national search for a new athletic director and no internal candidates were going to be considered.
But on Monday, MSU officially promoted Bill Beekman, taking away the interim tag from the longtime MSU employee — he’s been there since 1995 — and making him the permanent athletic director.
There was no national search. No other candidates were interviewed, Engler said.
“As we started talking about the search, I started hearing from virtually everyone that they loved what Bill was doing,” Engler said in a news conference introducing Beekman on Monday in East Lansing. “I had several people tell me that Bill was a calming presence.”
Engler said in February he would search nationally and externally for an athletic director. On Monday, he said Beekman posses a wide range of experiences, including “first and foremost” that he is a MSU graduate.
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