{"id":1229,"date":"2013-04-30T13:48:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T13:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2013-04-30T13:48:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T13:48:11","slug":"paul-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/paul-ferguson\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 59: President of the University of Maine Paul Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong> 59
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0April 27
\nGuest:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Paul Ferguson
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Paul Ferguson was named President by the University Of Maine <\/a>System Board Of Trustees in March of 2011. A Southern California native, Ferguson is a Whittier College graduate who earned a Ph.D. in pharmacology and toxicology at the University of California, Davis in 1981. Between college and graduate school he gained practical experience working as a research specialist in the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center and as a research biologist for Penwalt Corporation. Ferguson has been certified continuously as a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology for the past 25 years.\u00a0 Stevoe and\u00a0Ferguson delve into what it means to be the “Flagship” campus for the University of Maine, as well as how there is something different about Mainers that is tangible.<\/p>\n

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TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left) welcomed\u00a0University of Maine president\u00a0Paul Ferguson (right) to the studio.<\/p><\/div>\n

In his first year at the helm of the University of Maine System\u2019s flagship campus in Orono, Ferguson rolled out a \u201cBlue Sky Plan,\u201d which won the support of the system trustees. Crafted by a 26-member leadership team using the input of hundreds of university employees and staff, the plan lays out five broad initiatives for the next five years. The plan can be summarized as the \u201cFive M\u2019s\u201d (\u201cMaine\u2019s Renewal\u201d, \u201cMoney and Management\u201d, \u201cMorale and Marketing\u201d, Mentoring and Modeling\u201d and \u201cMaster Plan and Maintenance.\u00a0 The plan\u2019s \u201cpathways\u201d to the future includes partnerships with businesses and industries, finding new ways to attract revenue and students, boosting marketing efforts, revamping academic programs and improving infrastructure while beautifying campus.<\/p>\n

Ferguson and his wife, Grace, have been married for 37 years and have three children: David and his wife, Kayley, live in College Station, Texas, where he is a doctoral student in Kinesiology at Texas A&M University; Kathryn, engaged to fianc\u00e9e Bobby Bowman, is a first year medical student at NYU School of Medicine; and, Jenny is currently a Political Science\/History major at the University of Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studio, University of Maine president Paul Ferguson discussed “The Blue Sky Project”. The two explored more closely what compiles this plan and its objectives and how they are progressing to meet these objectives. President Ferguson also touched on how there is something different about Mainners that’s tangible. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}