I recently had family visit that do not often frequent Memphis. My family took a day to show them some of the sights: Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid, the Peabody and Beale Street. As we were driving downtown, my father showed them all the new developments and renovations of the former abandoned warehouses. While…
Month: October 2018
From an Academic to a President: How Dr. M. David Rudd is Driving the University of Memphis to Succeed
He did not want to be president. He was an academic. Why would an academic want to be president of a university? When Dr. M. David Rudd, provost at the time, saw the deficit the University of Memphis was facing in 2014, he wanted to help his colleagues stop the financial bleeding, so he took…
The 901 Connection 