If a Western Kentucky sports team was playing during the last 20 years, Gary and Julie Ransdell probably weren’t far from the action.
Ransdell is quick to point out that in two decades as WKU’s president, he and his wife also supported students at dance recitals, musicals, forensics competitions and even the engineering school’s concrete canoe races.
Ransdell retired Friday as school president, ending a tenure that started in 1997. His replacement, Tim Caboni, started Saturday.
Ransdell oversaw changes throughout the university, from new buildings to increased fundraising to prioritizing what the school calls its “international reach.