Late Tuesday afternoon, an email was sent out to the Eastern Michigan University community from Interim President Donald Loppnow and all members of the Board of Regents addressing the rumors that have been buzzing the past several days in regards to eliminating football or dropping down to a lower division of the NCAA and dropping out of the Mid-American Conference.
In this email, the EMU community was assured that Loppnow and the regents are “please to be a member of an outstanding conference,” and any claims of these rumors are false.
The email later goes on to say, “We are 100 percent supportive of our current Alethic administration…”
Lack of fundraising concerns were also addressing, stating that year-to-date fundraising has increased by almost $430,000.