{"id":538,"date":"2020-10-13T20:10:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T20:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/?post_type=stories&p=538"},"modified":"2020-10-13T20:19:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T20:19:05","slug":"president-cullinan-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/news\/president-cullinan-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"President Cullinan Steps Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mary Cullinan announces retirement; David May will serve as interim<\/h3>\n

By Eastern Magazine<\/p>\n

Eastern Washington University\u2019s 26th president, Mary Cullinan, announced in early August she was stepping down from her leadership of the university. Cullinan will act as the \u201cspecial assistant to the president for transition\u201d through mid-September, after which time she will join the EWU faculty as a professor in the Department of English.<\/p>\n

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The announcement came during a special public session of the EWU Board of Trustees. During the meeting the trustees named David May, provost and vice president for academic affairs, as interim president.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a tremendous honor to serve this great institution,\u201d Cullinan said. \u201cEWU is truly a remarkable university with exceptional students, faculty, staff, alumni and community supporters.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In elevating May, the EWU Board said it was moving to maintain continuity. As provost, May spearheaded the university\u2019s shift to online classes during the pandemic, and has been instrumental in working with faculty on an academic reorganization plan that will reduce Eastern\u2019s seven colleges to four. <\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ll have more coverage of the leadership change, including an in-depth interview with interim President David May, in our next issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mary Cullinan announces retirement; David May will serve as interim By Eastern Magazine Eastern Washington University\u2019s 26th president, Mary Cullinan, announced in early August she was stepping down from her leadership of the university. Cullinan will act as the \u201cspecial assistant to the president for transition\u201d through mid-September, after which time she will join the…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":484,"featured_media":542,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-538","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","stories_categories-campus","stories_tags-fall-winter-2020"],"acf":{"featured_video":"","subheading":"","display_byline":false,"display_date_published":false,"Links":false,"Resources":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/538\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}