Dr. Mary Tanner, Dean of the College of Education at UTC, is one of four finalists for UTC Provost.
Other finalists are Dr. John Friedl, Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Alabama; Dr. Thomas Storch, professor and Dean of the College of Arts and
Science at the University of Montana; and Dr. Livingston Alexander, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs
and professor of psychology at Kean University in New Jersey.
The four finalists for the post of Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs will be available during open forum sessions, a
component of their itinerary.
Dr. Friedl will be the first to visit UTC. His forum is Thursday, April 11, from 10:00-11:00 a.m. in the Signal Mountain Room of the UTC University Center and Friday, April 12, 2:00-3:00 p.m. Chattanooga Room C of the University Center.
Biographical information follows for each of the four finalists.
Dr. John Friedl is the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the
University of South Alabama. Friedl has held the position of American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow. Friedl earned a B.A., Master's Degree and the Ph.D in anthropology from the University of Berkeley. He received the M.P.H. in Health Behavior and Health Education from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and the J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.
Last spring, Friedl convened a University of South Alabama faculty
committee to develop a series of recommendations and priorities for faculty workloads, including the allocation of reassignments from classroom teaching to research and administrative activities. Implementation of the report was begun recently.
During his tenure as dean, Friedl initiated the first annual fund
drive to alumni from the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Alabama. Also, Friedl restructured the financial management of the College, and ultimately was able to eliminate the operating deficit.
Dr. Thomas Storch serves as professor and Dean of the College of Arts and Science, University of Montana. He serves on the Committee on University Ties of the Institute of Medicine and Humanities.
Storch earned his undergraduate degree in pre-medicine from Ohio
Wesleyan University. He received the M.S and Ph.D. in zoology from The
University of Michigan.
Storch began his career in higher education at State University of
New York, moving to Western Washington University, then Marshall University and finally to the University of Montana. At the University of Montana, Storch has worked with department chairpersons and program directors to restructure the college's $21 million budget, update departmental base budgets and streamline the process of
allocating supplemental funds to academic units.
Storch has co-written grants which secured for the College of Arts
and Science over $2 million through the National Science Foundation/West
Virginia in the last four years.
Dr. Livingston Alexander is Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs and professor of psychology at Kean University in New Jersey. Alexander serves as a faculty representative and seminar leader on the American Council on Education (ACE) Fellowship Program in Washington, D.C.
Alexander earned his undergraduate degree in philosophy from St.
Joseph Seminary College, an affiliate of the Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C. He received the Master's Degree in Curriculum from the University of Houston, Texas, and the Ed.D. in educational psychology from the University of Houston.
Recently, Alexander developed a distance education program for Kean
University that complements the resident program and serves the needs of working adult students.
Alexander has provided leadership and support at Kean University to
secure $12.3 million funding from a variety of sources in the last four
years, including federal assistance from a bi-partisan U.S. Congressional
delegation, a state equity appropriation through state legislators, and the Schering Plough Foundation.
Dr. Mary Tanner is a Guerry Professor and Dean of the College of Education and Applied Professional Studies at UTC. She is a member of the NCATE Board of Examiners.
Tanner began her career in education as a classroom teacher in the
Catoosa County, Georgia public schools and later in Chattanooga public schools. She started her tenure with UTC in 1971. She earned her undergraduate degree in secondary education and her M.Ed. in elementary education from UTC. Tanner received the Ph.D. in family and child development from The University of Georgia, Athens,
Georgia.
With Tanner's help, collaborative work between the school system,
UTC and the community has created two new downtown elementary schools as University partnership schools which will open in fall, 2002.
Under Tanner's leadership, UTC became the only campus in 1999 to receive awards in all four of the new federal initiatives: Gear-Up, Teacher Quality, Teacher Recruitment and Technology, with external funding totals reaching $5-$6 million dollars in each of the last four years.