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Columns::August 12, 2002

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Provost named new president of Ohio State University

By Sharron Hannon
shannon@uga.edu

Provost Karen Holbrook has been selected to be the 13th president of Ohio State University, the second-largest public research

Karen Holbrook

university in the country.
“I have had four wonderful years at the University of Georgia,” said Holbrook at the July 25 OSU press conference at which the announcement was made. “But this decision allows me to realize one of my career goals: to be a university president. At each step in my conversations with the search committee and other leaders at Ohio State, I became increasingly certain that this is the right move to make at this time.”
Holbrook came to UGA in the fall of 1998 to assume the newly created position of senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, one of three senior administrators reporting to President Michael F. Adams. During her tenure at UGA, Holbrook reshaped the academic budget process toward a performance-based system and backed faculty-driven interdisciplinary initiatives, such as the New Media Institute and the Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute. She also oversaw the creation of two new colleges--the School of Public and International Affairs and the College of Environment and Design--as well as the establishment of a new Office of Institutional Diversity and the reorganization of UGA’s international efforts under an associate provost.
A scientist keenly interested in research, Holbrook promoted expanded opportunities for undergraduates to participate in research and a favorable climate for commercialization of university research discoveries. Her term at UGA included significant increases in extramural funding for research.
“Karen Holbrook has been the quintessential provost,” says Adams, who earned his master’s and doctorate from Ohio State. “In four short years, she has left an amazing mark on this institution. It will be both a professional and personal loss when she leaves. I can’t think of anyone that I would rather have at the helm of one of my alma maters. I wish her well and know that she will be a great president.”
Holbrook will assume the OSU presidency on Oct. 1.
Adams has appointed Arnett C. Mace Jr., dean of the Warnell School of Forest Resources, to serve as interim provost while a national search is conducted for a new provost.

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