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Volume 10, Issue 28
Lehigh University Campus Weekly
June 4,1997
Mathematician named provost
Markley
Nelson Markley, acting vice
president for academic affairs and
provost at the University of Maryland at College
Park, has been
named provost at
Lehigh. Markley,
also a professor of
mathematics at
Maryland, is a
nationally
renowned scholar
who has been a
leader in emphasizing the importance of a mathematically literate
work force and encouraging effective measures to improve mathematics education.
Markley will become provost
Aug. 1 and is expected to hold a
faculty position
as tenured
professor of
mathematics. He
replaces former
Provost Alan W.
Pense, who
retired in
December after
almost 40 years
at Lehigh—six of
which were spent
as provost.
"I am pleased
to appoint
Nelson Markley
provost at
Lehigh," said
President Peter
Likins. "He
brings strong
skills in academic administration and 30
years of experience as a faculty
member at a
major university. I have absolute
confidence in his ability to work
effectively with all constituents to
set priorities and make the decisions necessary for advancing the
Lehigh agenda."
"I also wish to thank the members of the provost search committee, led by committee chair Prof. J.
Gary Lutz (professor of education),
who worked very hard this year to
find a worthy successor to AI Pense.
I am grateful also to Patti T. Ota
for her exemplary performance this
past semester as interim provost."
"I am happy to join an excellent
university with Lehigh's fine
tradition and strengths in the arts
and sciences, engineering, business,
I am happy to join an
excellent university
with Lehigh's fine
tradition and strengths
in the arts and sciences,
engineering, business,
and education... and
helping the university
continue its rapid
progress towards
increasing academic
excellence and national
prominence."
Provost Nelson Markley
and education," said Markley. "My
knowledge of Lehigh goes back to
my days as a high school student in
eastern Pennsylvania. I am looking
forward to moving back to the
Lehigh Valley and helping the
university continue its rapid
progress towards increasing
academic excellence and national
prominence."
Markley has written more than
two dozen published articles on a
variety of themes in dynamical
systems. He is also the author of a
textbook, Introduction to Probability, which is in its second edition.
During his 30-year career at
Maryland, Markley chaired the
university's highly ranked department of mathematics and also
chaired a committee that restructured and
revitalized the
campus honors
program, which
now ranks
among the top in
the country.
Before his
current appointment, he was
associate vice
president for
academic affairs.
He helped create
the Maryland
Mathematics
Coalition, which
brought together
leaders from
business, industry, government
and education,
and he has
served for many
years as an
officer of the
Conference
Board of the Mathematical Sciences, the umbrella organization of
American mathematics.
Born in Reading, Pa., and raised
in the nearby community of Hamburg, Markley earned his bachelor's
degree from Lafayette College in
1962, and his master's and doctoral
degrees from Yale University. He
joined the faculty at Maryland in
1966 as assistant professor and was
named full professor in 1977.
He currently resides in
Rockville, Md., with his wife, Pat,
who was also raised in Hamburg.
The Markleys have raised four
children, now adults living from
Raleigh, N.C., to Seattle, Wash.
—Rita Malone
Show me the diploma, Bruce!
John Franchini, class president and Commencement speaker,
walks back to get his diploma with Bruce Correll, registrar.
John Kish IV
More Commencement coverage on pages 2 and 3
Ota named dean of CBE
Ota
Patti T. Ota, currently interim
provost, has been named dean of
the College of Business and Economics. She
succeeds James
W. Schmotter,
who is leaving to
become dean of
the Haworth
College of
Business at
Western Michigan University.
In her previous assignment as vice provost for
academic administration and
associate to the president for
planning, Ota's responsibilities
were extremely wide-ranging. She
will retain some of those responsibilities, and will bear the title "vice
provost and dean of the College of
Business and Economics."
"In her role as dean, Ota's
primary mission is to lead the
faculty in its response to the
challenges of assuring continuation
of accreditation by the American
Assembly of Collegiate Schools of
Business (AACSB) beyond the year
2000, when the next review is
scheduled, " said President Peter
Likins. "When progress with this
mission permits Ota to return to
full-time duties as vice provbst,
probably in two to four years, she
will happily do so. By that point we
will have identified a new dean for
the college through a national
search.
"When we consulted with the
faculty about a new dean, several
people suggested that I name Patti
Ota to the position," he said. "That
advice was repeated by the two
college department chairmen. She
was also strongly endorsed by the
Blue Ribbon Commission on
Accounting, chaired by Trustees
Karen Stuckey '75 and Phil
Peller '60, and including former
Dean Richard W. Barsness. This
appointment is in response to a
wave of interest that developed
Please see Dean on page 5
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