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Gaertner Named Interim Vice Chancellor For Academic Affairs

Sept. 24, 2010
SHSU Media Contact: Mike Wintemute, director of governmental relations and communications, the Texas State University System

 

(AUSTIN, TX) – Texas State University System Chancellor Brian McCall, Ph.D., today announced the appointment of James Gaertner as interim vice chancellor for academic affairs. In this role, Gaertner will serve as the university system’s chief academic officer, overseeing academic program planning and review, curriculum development, and academic standards and policies.

“The vice chancellor for academic affairs is critical to our institutional missions of teaching, research and public service,” said McCall. “I’m pleased that Dr. Gaertner has agreed to provide the leadership we need to move the Texas State University System forward, while giving us the time necessary to conduct a search for his successor.”

Gaertner is president emeritus of Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, having served as president of SHSU from 2001 to 2010. Prior to arriving at SHSU, he served as dean of the College of Business at the University of Texas at San Antonio and as a professor at UT San Antonio and the Notre Dame University. While at Notre Dame, he was director of the university’s London Master of Business program in England.

Gaertner earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business from Sam Houston State University and his doctorate in accounting from Texas A&M University.

“Serving Sam Houston State University, my alma mater, will always stand as my life’s professional legacy, but it’s both an honor and obligation to answer this call,” said Gaertner.

“I have a great affection for the Texas State University System and the schools within the system,” Gaertner added. “I respect Dr. McCall a great deal and I’m glad that I am able to help. After I complete this temporary assignment, I plan to resume my retirement.”

During Gaertner’s tenure as president, SHSU added 14 new master's programs and two new doctoral programs, achieved Carnegie Doctoral Research classification—which placed it in the top seven percent of all higher education institutions in the U.S., presided over more than $275 million of construction projects, and the university successfully completed its first capital campaign in history, raising more than $60 million over five years.

Gaertner announced last November his plans to retire as president of Sam Houston State effective Aug. 31, 2010.

He will serve as vice chancellor for academic affairs from October 2010 through May 2011, succeeding Dr. Kenneth Craycraft, who left the Texas State University System earlier this year to join Higher Ed Holdings, LLC.

 

 

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