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DePauw appoints Stimpert as new VP for academic affairs
DePauw University has appointed Larry Stimpert, Colorado College professor of economics and business, as its vice president for academic affairs, President Brian W. Casey has announced.
Stimpert will begin his responsibilities on July 1, 2013. He replaces David Harvey, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, who has served in that capacity since 2009 and will return to a full-time faculty role.
"Dr. Stimpert is not only an accomplished scholar and teacher, but a strong administrator and a student of institutional transformation," Casey said in making the announcement. "I look forward to welcoming him to campus, and I know that his leadership will be central to our ability to achieve our ambitions to make DePauw one of the premier liberal arts institutions in the nation.
"I am also deeply grateful to Professor Wayne Glausser and the faculty search committee for their exceptional work throughout this search process," Casey added. "It is due to their counsel, guidance, and clear commitment to DePauw that we find ourselves announcing a new vice president who is as accomplished as Dr. Stimpert. I am also thankful for the extraordinary service David Harvey has given to the university for four years as vice president of Academic Affairs."
Stimpert, who received his B.A. in economics, magna cum laude, from Illinois Wesleyan University, earned his M.B.A. in finance from Columbia University, and his Ph.D. in business administration at the University of Illinois.
"DePauw is a great university with a 175-year tradition of providing its students with a transforming liberal arts education while also preparing them for a lifetime of service and leadership," Stimpert said. "I look forward to working with President Casey and the entire DePauw community as it pursues an even more ambitious future."
At Colorado College, Stimpert has served as chairman of the Economics and Business Department. He has also served on, and chaired, the College's Faculty Executive and Social Sciences Executive Committees.
More recently, he led a large delegation of faculty and staff from Colorado College on a series of benchmarking visits to the College's liberal arts peers, specifically Davidson College, Carleton College and Grinnell College. He currently serves as interim director of the college's career center.
Wayne E. Glausser, the Jane Cooling Brady Professor of English, chaired the search committee charged with identifying DePauw's next vice president for academic affairs (VPAA)
"At the start of the search, we drew up a profile of the ideal candidate we hoped to attract," Glausser said. "This person would be a distinguished teacher-scholar in a liberal arts setting, with a record of success in significant administrative roles, who had the creativity, energy, and judgment to lead DePauw into its next academic era. Larry Stimpert fits this description perfectly. We're delighted that he will be joining us as our new VPAA."
Stimpert has served as a distinguished visiting professor in the Management Department of the U.S. Air Force Academy. Prior to his tenure at Colorado College, he was a faculty member at the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University.
At Colorado College, he has held the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professorship and the John L. Knight Chair for the Study of Free Enterprise. He has twice received the Sidney G. Winter Award for his contributions to economics and business education.