Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Dr.
Randolph C. Schulte is Assistant Vice Chancellor for
Academic Affairs for the Tennessee Board of Regents. He
is responsible for studying and promoting the quality
and performance of the universities and community
colleges including such areas as performance funding,
accreditation, program review, Academic Audit, strategic
planning, and other indicators related to performance of
TBR institutions.
Dr.
Schulte joined the TBR staff in October 2007 after
serving as the Department Chair of Language Arts from
2005 to 2007 at Chattanooga State Technical Community
College where he was a tenured associate professor of
English. Previously, he served for three years as the
Department Head of Humanities and as Assistant Dean for
Arts & Sciences. Prior positions held by Dr. Schulte
since joining the faculty at Chattanooga State in 1995
include Director of the Hospitality Management program,
Coordinator of Corporate Training with AT&T, and Interim
Dean for Business and Information Systems. He is a
graduate of the Regents Community College Leadership
Academy.
An
advocate of the integration of technology and teaching,
he was the recipient of the TBR Distance Education
Committee Innovations Award for his work with hybrid
learning models. Dr. Schulte has also performed as an
Audit Fellow and campus coordinator for the TBR Academic
Audit program since its inception in 2003. In addition,
Dr. Schulte has served as the Executive Director of a
not-for-profit conference center and as a secondary
school English teacher, all elements of a Jack London-esque
career that includes stints as a wrangler, grease
monkey, construction worker, magazine feature writer,
and manager of a 2,000-acre resort ranch.
Dr.
Schulte earned the Doctor of Education degree from the
University of Tennessee at Knoxville where his research
focused on institutional research in Tennessee community
colleges and its impacts on decision-making by college
presidents. He received the Master of Arts in Teaching
degree from Colgate University and the Bachelors of Arts
in Comparative Literature from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was elected into Phi
Beta Kappa. A frequent presenter at regional and
national conferences, Dr. Schulte’s paper based upon his
research findings was awarded the William “Bill”
McCulley III Best Paper Award for 2006 by the Tennessee
Association for Institutional Research.
