Amy Wohlert has been appointed interim Associate Provost of Academic Affairs at the University of New Mexico. She is currently serving as the chair of the Speech and Hearing Sciences Department, said Provost Brian L. Foster. Wohlert will replace Nancy Uscher, who is leaving to take the position of Provost of the California Institute of Arts.
Wohlert will assume her new post on June 1. She will be working on curriculum and student matters and will have a major role in the Core Curriculum Task Force that has been established to re-examine the core curriculum at the university.
“Amy Wohlert has been a very successful chair of a complex department that has significant interaction with our community,” says Deputy Provost of Academic Affairs Richard Holder. “She brings to our office a perspective that is both academic and professional in nature and this is a perspective that is much needed as we move forward to consider important curriculum and student issues in the next few years.”
“I am very excited to have a position that will allow me to participate in the initiatives that address the quality of instruction at UNM. We are all fundamentally concerned with education so I am looking forward to many interesting collaborations,” says Wohlert.
Wohlert has been at UNM since 2000 when she was hired as a professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences. Previous positions included stints at Purdue University in the Department of Audiology and Speech Sciences as an associate professor (1998-2000) and as an assistant professor (1992-98). She began her academic career at Ohio State University as an assistant professor in the Division of Speech and Hearing Science (1989-1992).
Wohlert received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1989, and her master’s (1980) and bachelor’s (1978) degrees from UNM. Previously she practiced as a speech pathologist in school, hospital and private settings.
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