UpDate - Vol. 13, No. 22, Page 1
March 3, 1994
Full schedule planned for 1st provost finalist

     Anne H. Hopkins, vice president for arts, sciences and engineering and
professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, will visit
the University of Delaware campus next week, as the first of three
finalists for the position of University provost.
     Hopkins will be in Newark Monday and Tuesday, March 7 and 8, meeting
with a wide range of University constituencies, including faculty, staff
and students.
     The identities of the other two finalists for the position will be
announced just prior to their visits to the campus.
     Hopkins, 52, holds bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in
political science, all from Syracuse University.
     In her current position, she is one of three academic vice presidents
and serves as the chief academic and administrative officer for six major
units-the College of Liberal Arts, the Institute of Technology, the College
of Biological Sciences, the General College, the College of Architecture
and Landscape Architecture and the University College.
     These colleges-with more than 1,000 faculty-collectively enroll more
than two-thirds of the undergraduate students and more than half of the
graduate students on the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus in
Minneapolis, and they provide more than 80 percent of the undergraduate
instruction.
     The overall budget overseen by Hopkins for these units totals in
excess of $175 million per year, including more than $120 million in state
appropriations and more than $55 million in sponsored research.
     One of her major assignments has been responsibility for
implementation of the President's Initiative for Excellence in
Undergraduate Education, which includes improvements to course access and
undergraduate advisement, as well as the introduction of new liberal
education requirements.
     In addition at the University of Minnesota, she helped develop, with
the Faculty Senate, a university-wide, mandatory teaching evaluation
policy, including student evaluation and peer review; she oversees the
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program; and, with a faculty advisory
committee, she administers the $6 million-plus McKnight Arts and Humanities
Endowment.
     The University of Minnesota is the state's land-grant and
comprehensive research university, with an enrollment of more than 50,000
students and a total full-time faculty of about 2,900 on the main campus.
     From 1974-90, Hopkins was a member of the faculty at the University of
Tennessee in Knoxville.
     She also served there as assistant provost, associate provost and vice
provost, developing and supervising a campus-wide Social Science Research
Institute and serving as liaison to the Tennessee General Assembly. In
1983, she was voted outstanding faculty member by the Student Government
Association.
     From 1968-74, Hopkins was a member of the political science faculty at
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, serving as department chairperson for
three years.
     A nationally known political scientist, Hopkins is a member of the
editorial board of the Journal of Politics, and formerly served on the
boards of Administration and Society and the American Politics Quarterly.
     A member of the executive council of the American Political Science
Association, she is past president and former member of the executive
council of the Southern Political Science Association and of the executive
council of the Midwest Political Science Association.
     Author of articles, chapters, book reviews and other publications
dealing with state politics, political parties and campaigns; unionization;
job satisfaction; and the workplace, Hopkins has received numerous awards
and research grants.
     She was guest scholar at The Brookings Institution in the summer of
1984.
     In her community, Hopkins is a trustee of the Minneapolis Foundation
and is Minnesota commissioner to the Midwest Higher Education Commission, a
gubernatorial appointment.
     For interested persons, Hopkins' complete resume is on-line through
UDiscover!, is in the reserve room of the Morris Library and is available
for review in academic deans' offices.
     After the finalists' visits, all of which will be held this month, the
17-member search committee will make its recommendation to President David
P. Roselle, according to Daniel Rich, committee chairperson.
     As the University's chief academic officer, the provost reports to the
president and provides academic leadership for 10 colleges as well as
research, extension programs, graduate studies, continuing education, the
library, international programs, and several interdisciplinary research
centers and academic support units.
     The position requires an ability to manage a complex academic
enterprise, the interpersonal skills to provide leadership in a diversified
University setting and the experience and commitment to facilitate
programmatic goals, including experience in sponsored programs and fund
raising. Candidates also must have a record of instructional and scholarly
accomplishments and be qualified for a senior, tenured appointment in an
academic department.
     More than 175 applications and nominations were received for the
provost's position, Rich said. Nominations were sought from the campus
community, and national advertising was placed in The Chronicle of Higher
Education and Black Issues in Higher Education. Letters requesting
nominations also were sent to presidents of institutions in the National
Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges and the American
Association of Universities, as well as to more than 200 academic deans
across the country.
     A substantive review of the applications began in November, Rich said,
and it is hoped that the search process will be completed and the
successful applicant will assume the post of provost about July 1.
     Richard B. Murray, professor of physics and astronomy, currently
serves as interim provost. He replaced R. Byron Pipes, who left the
University last spring to assume the presidency of Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute in Troy, N.Y.
     Members of the provost's search committee are Pamela Beeman, nursing;
John Edward Burke, Delaware Undergraduate Student Congress; John
Burmeister, chemistry and biochemistry; Maxine Colm, employee relations;
Katherine S. Conway-Turner, individual and family studies; Joan DelFattore,
English; J. Robert R. Harrison, treasurer; Saundra Jenkins, graduate
student; Edgar Johnson, intercollegiate athletics; Peter Kolchin, history;
Kenneth Lewis, economics; Kenneth Lomax, agricultural engineering; Carole
Marks, Black American Studies; Stanley Sandler, chemical engineering;
William B. Stanley, educational development; and Carolyn Thoroughgood,
marine studies.