Three candidates have been invited to campus to interview for the post of UNM Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. The three finalists are Reed Dasenbrock, Ramon Gutierrez and Uday Sukhatme. The finalists were selected by a 13-member search committee from a national search process that began in October 2005.
Uday Sukhatme
Sukhatme has been the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo since 2002. Previous positions he has held include serving as Interim Vice Provost for Academic Programs at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago; Head of the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Chicago; and Professor of Physics at SUNY Buffalo and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Sukhatme holds an Sc.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; a S.B. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and a B.Sc. Honors in Mathematics from the University of Delhi, India.
He will be on campus for interviews on Monday, February 27, 2006, and will attend a one-hour open forum with students at 2:30 p.m. in the Santa Ana Room at the Student Union Building. On Tuesday, February 28, 2006, he will attend an open forum with Faculty at 2:30 p.m. in the Santa Ana Room of the SUB.
Reed Dasenbrock
Dasenbrock is currently the Interim Provost/Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of New Mexico (UNM). He has held positions as the Dean of College of Arts & Sciences at UNM, and as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences & Director of the Arts and Sciences Research Center at NMSU. He has also been a Department Head in English.
Dasenbrock holds a Ph.D. in English from the Johns Hopkins University; an M.A. in English from the Johns Hopkins University; a Bachelors degree in Philosophy and English from Oxford University and a B.A. from McGill University.
Dasenbrock will be available for an open forum with students on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 at 2:30 p.m. in the Santa Ana room of the SUB. He will meet with faculty in an open forum on Thursday, March 2, 2006 at 2:30 p.m. in the Lobo A room at the SUB.
Ramon Gutierrez
Gutierrez is currently a Full Professor and Chancellor’s Associate Endowed Chair at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) where he has been employed with since 1982. His previous positions include Associate Chancellor at UCSD; Chair, Department of Ethnic Studies at UCSD; Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at UCSD; Director of the Committee on Latino Research with the UC System; and the Director of the Chicano Studies Program at UCSD.
He holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin; a M.A. in History from the University of Wisconsin; and a B.A. in Latin American History, University of New Mexico.
Gutierrez will be available for an open forum with students on Friday, March 3, 2006, at 2:30 p.m. in the Trailblazer/Spirit room of the SUB. He will meet with faculty in an open forum on Monday, March 6, 2006 at 2:30 p.m. in the Santa Ana room of the SUB.
The Provost/Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs provides institutional and divisional leadership in achieving the University’s education, research, and public service missions; serves as the University of New Mexico’s chief academic officer and provides administrative leadership to all the operating units of the Academic Affairs and Student Affairs including schools and colleges, research units and Provost’s staff.
Reporting to the Provost are institutional research; international, evening and weekend, university extension and student services programs; the University’s four two-year Branch Campuses and its eleven Main Campus schools, colleges and programs: ASM, Architecture & Planning, Arts & Sciences, Continuing Education, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, Graduate Studies, Law, University College, and the University Libraries.
Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu