The Council of Graduate Schools in collaboration with the National Science Foundation has named University of Colorado at Boulder Vice Chancellor Carol Lynch the first Dean in Residence for the two organizations.
She will be on leave from CU-Boulder for the one-year assignment, which begins in August.
Lynch is vice chancellor for research and dean of the Graduate School at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has been an associate vice chancellor and a professor of environmental, population and organismic biology at CU-Boulder since 1992.
Phil DiStefano, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, said Associate Vice Chancellors Jerry Peterson and Rodney Taylor have been asked to take on additional duties while Lynch is gone, Peterson on research and Taylor on graduate school affairs.
DiStefano said he also plans "to add two faculty associates to pick up some of the day-to-day duties for Rodney and Jerry." Institute directors will report to Peterson.
Prior to her time at CU-Boulder, Lynch served as program director of Population Biology and Physiological Ecology at the National Science Foundation from 1990 to 1992 and taught at Wesleyan University from 1973 to 1990, initially as an Assistant Professor and eventually as Dean of the Sciences.
Lynch has directed several NIH, NSF and NATO grants and has advised many graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. She has published numerous papers, book chapters and other publications.
She also is a member of several professional societies and has served on numerous committees, boards and panels at the national, international and university level.
"Carol Lynch is a major leader in graduate education, regionally and nationally," said Dr. Debra W. Stewart, CGS president. "Among her many contributions, she has played significant roles in advancing interdisciplinary studies in doctoral education and developing graduate certificate programs.
"As our first CGS/NSF Dean in Residence, Carol Lynch brings the intellectual energy essential to the program's success. We are delighted to welcome her to this new leadership position."
The CGS/NSF Dean-in-Residence Program was created to provide a new mechanism for ongoing and substantive communications between the NSF and senior administrators at universities that provide graduate education.
The NSF is a major funder of graduate support programs. The dean will communicate with graduate deans, as well as broader science and engineering faculty, about NSF's perspective on graduate education.
Lynch will serve as the CGS/NSF Dean in Residence for 2001-2002. Her salary will be paid by CGS.
"I am looking forward to working with the dedicated staff at both CGS and NSF to collectively develop policy for shaping graduate education that will keep the U.S. at the forefront in an increasingly demanding and competitive post-baccalaureate environment," she said. "It is a great honor to be chosen as the CGS/NSF Dean in Residence."
For more information on the CGS/NSF Dean-in-Residence program, visit the CGS Web site at .