Previously, McCrumb spent 16 years as superintendent of schools in Marcellus, was assistant superintendent in Sparta, assistant high school principal in Connersville, Ind. and was a math teacher in Middlebury Ind. McCrumb received his bachelor's degree from WMU in 1971 and his graduate degrees (M.S. '80, Ed.S. '82, Ed.D. '85) from Indiana University. McCrumb is the former president of the WMU Alumni Association Board of Directors.