Provost
promoted to CSU system job
By Joseph Serna
Online Forty-Niner
Assistant City Editor
Gary Reichard has taken a giant step up from the position he was passed over
for nearly three months ago, when he was appointed vice chancellor of the California
State University system this week.
Reichard, provost and senior vice president of Academic Affairs at CSULB, lost
to current President F. King Alexander as presidential successor to Robert
C. Maxson last fall.
His new position however, has made him happy enough.
“ This is both a humbling and exciting opportunity,” Reichard said
in a prepared statement. “I’m enthusiastic about working with the
Board of Trustees and Chancellor Reed to advance this great university, which
in many ways represents the best hopes of the state of California.”
Riechard has been at CSULB since 1994 serving as the associate vice president
for Academic Personnel, Planning and Assessment, then becoming the provost
in 2002.
He also served as the chairman of the history department at Florida Atlantic
University, associate dean at the Schmidt College of the Arts and Humanities,
and associate vice chancellor for Academic Affairs for the University of Maryland.
Reichard is now responsible for serving as an adviser in the Management Direction
of System Policy and Operation, establishing direction and priorities for the
Division of Academic Affairs, ensuring the CSU mission of quality education
and access at low cost, and communicating that to its constituents—a “substantial
set of responsibilities,” Reichard said.
Reichard’s duties, which begin Feb. 10, will be compensated with a $262,008
salary.
“ I think it will be a sort of new lease on life,” Reichard said,
though he admitted he will definitely miss Long Beach.
Fortunately for him, with the new position comes a shorter commute to work—he
said his commute will be five miles shorter.
Within one year, CSULB will have a new president, a new provost and a new athletic
director, but it is not as drastic a change as it sounds.
“ That happens at campuses from time to time,” Reichard said.
The process for appointing a new vice chancellor, which is extremely confidential
Reichard said, goes through a search committee similar to what he went through
last semester.
“ It was probably easier to get the board to approve,” Reichard said,
considering he interviewed with at least a few of them last semester.
Other positions that have a say in the decision are two other vice chancellors
and two presidents from other CSUs.
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