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1415 Murfreesboro Road, Suite
350
Nashville, TN 37217
Phone (615) 366-4400 Fax (615) 366-4464
Press Release
PRESS RELEASE CONTACT:
Mary Morgan
615.366.4414
Dr. Paula Short Named as
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Joins TBR from University of Missouri System
Nashville, Tennessee, October 8, 2001—Chancellor
Charles Manning of the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) will recommend board
approval at tomorrow’s TBR meeting of Dr. Paula Short as the new vice ch
ancellor for academic affairs at the Tennessee Board of Regents. Dr.
Short has served as associate vice president for academic affairs in the
University of Missouri system since 1999, where she had a variety of system-wide
responsibilities for Missouri’s four campuses. Among her duties were
degree program approval, program review, strategic planning, faculty
development, articulation and distance learning, including web-based course
development. Dr. Short, who holds a PhD from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, joined the University of Missouri in 1995 as chair of
the department of educational leadership and policy analysis. Prior to
that she held positions at The Pennsylvania State University and Auburn
University, and she has a distinguished record of research and publications.
In selecting Dr. Short for the position, Chancellor Manning says, “I was looking particularly for someone with demonstrated leadership capabilities in a system context. Dr. Short’s successful experience in academic affairs in a strong public university system gave her the edge over the other three finalists, all of whom had excellent strengths. She has done a particularly noteworthy job of overseeing the development of shared programs and shared resources in the University of Missouri system, and these are capabilities that will be very valuable to us in Tennessee."
If approved by the Board of Regents, Dr. Short will succeed Dr. Sidney McPhee, who left TBR in August after three years as executive vice chancellor for academic affairs to assume the presidency of Middle Tennessee State University. She is expected to be in place by the end of the year.
The Tennessee Board of Regents is the nation’s
sixth largest higher education system, governing 45 post-secondary educational
institutions. The TBR system includes six universities, 13 two-year
colleges and 26 technology centers, providing programs to over 180,000 students
in 90 of Tennessee’s 95 counties.
