![]() Campus will be able to provide input in the leadership profile, but interviews will be closed and final candidates will not be announced. This will be a closed search, unlike when Garrett was hired in 2015. As the search moves forward, it will look differently than past ESU presidential searches. I was always embracing change - and change, it’s not comfortable for a lot of people, but I was taught to look at it differently, like, ‘Oh, that’s exciting.’ ”Ĭurrently, the search committee chair has not been yet named, though Flanders said he expects that to be finalized at the December KBOR meeting later this month. ![]() I had the parents I did, and the community that supported (me). “I worked all through high school and college. “I think there were several other (people) that taught me the importance of being adaptable,” Hush said. Hush raised his daughters to be adaptable, but it’s a lesson he learned from those before him. As a parent, you try to protect your children. ![]() “She was learning something for the very first time. But my oldest (Rachael) for the first, I would say six weeks, every day I’d come home from work and she’d already been home for a little bit after school and she would come to me and be crying - excuse me.” My youngest (Gillian) was just about 9, 12 months old. “She didn’t know English that well because she was in early childhood. “We put her into the school and it was French and she didn’t know French,” he said. His family moved with him, though it wasn’t always the easiest with his two daughters. After graduating from ESU, Hush has a long list of places he’s lived - one of them being southern France. One of the many lessons his parents taught him was not to be afraid to pursue the things he wants, Hush said. His dad, Bob Hush, is also from Emporia, and his late mother, Luella, grew up south of Emporia. Hush is the oldest of four siblings, with two younger sisters and one younger brother. Hush also was a member of the Blue Key Honor Society, meant for select students who display balanced excellence and leadership while college upperclassmen. He was inducted into the ESU Athletics Hall of Fame in 1995. While at ESU from 1978-1981 as a student athlete, Hush became the second all-time winningest singles tennis player, according to ESU Athletics. That helped him with his confidence in day-to-day life.” He got involved in tennis and became a great tennis player there. Even though as unbelievably outgoing and forthcoming as he is now, he was not that way as a youngster. The two met at Mary Herbert Grade School, and they’ve been friends ever since. Lifelong friend of “Kenny” Hush, Mike Law, another ESU grad, said he hasn’t always been as outgoing as he is now. According to Flanders, this closed search is meant to attract a wider range of applicants. This presidential search will look differently from previous ones, which were open. ![]() ![]() Blake Flanders, regents president, anticipates a permanent hire to be announced as early as May 2022. Blake Flanders, KBOR president, anticipates the announcement may come as early as May. Hush is expected to remain in the position through the spring semester until the permanent position can be hired. Hush previously served on Wichita State University’s Board of Trustees as its treasurer, and also previously worked at Koch Carbon, a subsidiary of Koch Industries. Hush, an Emporia native and ESU grad, has returned to campus nearly 40 years after receiving his undergraduate degree in business. “I wish I had the opportunity to spend time one-on-one or (in) smaller groups with more of the faculty and staff,” Hush said. ESU’s new president will be chosen through a closed search, according to KBOR. 16 by the Kansas Board of Regents, following the departure of Allison Garrett to take a position as the chief executive of Oklahoma higher education. “One person asked me, ‘Hey, how’s the interim going?’ I didn’t hear - all I heard was, ‘How’s the intern going?’ So I joked, I said, ‘Yeah, in this case I am an intern right now,’ because I’m in a huge learning curve.” “(The other) night I was with a few local people,” Hush said. The office seems to be waiting, much like the rest of the campus, for the next university president to be named.įor interim president Ken Hush, who holds down this office, the waiting is all part of the job. There are a few personal items on the desk, such as family photos, but the bookcases behind are vacant. EMPORIA - With the sun shining in from four large windows on an uncharacteristically warm December day, the president’s office at Emporia State University sits mostly empty. ![]()
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