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    Take one university president, various vice presidents, deans and others who interact with everyone from alumni to prospective students, mix them together on a bus and set the timer for a five-day, 16-stop tour of Michigan, and you have all the ingredients of the 2004 Ferris Hometown Bus Tour.
    The 1,372-mile-long journey began in Big Rapids, traveled first to Alpena, then as far north as Brimley in the Upper Peninsula, back down the Lake Michigan shore to Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, over to Detroit and back home to the Ferris campus. Along the way, the tour group met with alumni, current and incoming students, and many friends and supporters.
    At a number of stops, President David Eisler signed articulation agreements with officials at community colleges. Those agreements will help students to seamlessly transfer their credits to Ferris.
    In addition to its Big Rapids and Grand Rapids campuses, Ferris is increasingly becoming a statewide network of satellite learning centers with programs offered in a variety of traditional, online and mixed delivery formats. The 2004 Hometown Bus Tour was an opportunity to further strengthen the University’s close relationship with its alumni, students and partner institutions.
    Former drum major Jac Russell, who with his wife Mary met the tour at its Ludington stop, added to the spirit of the tour by recalling a Ferris cheer:

Ricky ticky horse,
ricky ticky cow.
Ricky-ticky Bulldog –
bow, wow, wow!

    As the 2004-05 academic year begins, Ferris thanks the many people who came out to meet the tour, talk about their University experiences and express their ideas for its future.