January 13, 2022
Karen Kus: How well do we really know her?
Karen Kus is the executive director for the COB’s Center for Student Success. Essentially, if it involves helping COB students become leaders, she’s playing a major role. Everyone knows she’s awesome. Everyone knows about her passion for #PirateNation. But, do really know her?
Well…
Proudly borrowing from the Proust Questionnaire, we asked Karen Kus some questions so you could get to know her a little better.
What was your first concert? Ambrosia and Doobie Brothers. What are the qualities you most like in a person? Integrity and fun. What is your idea of happiness? Sitting on the beach with my family. If not in higher education, what would you be doing? Full time volunteer in many areas: concession stands at high school games, hope lodge, humane society. Paying gig – always loved retail and event planning. If you could go back in time and witness anything in history, where would you go? I would have loved to attend the March on Washington in 1963 to hear Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech. Who is your favorite hero in fiction? Robin Hood. I don’t advocate stealing but loved he was trying to help the poor. Who are your heroes in real life? Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez. Who are your favorite writers? I was drawn more to poetry. Maya Angelou and Walt Whitman. What is your favorite childhood memory? Going to Houghton Lake, Michigan each summer for vacation. What’s your favorite ECU/College of Business memory? At our first Welcome Hoopla, watching Dean Rick Niswander, with Kevin Williams and Travis Bulluck, flipping hula hoops down the third floor hallway in Bate to see who could get the furthest. What’s the one thing people would find most surprising to learn about you? I was on Romper Room as a child.