Greetings!
It's time for an update I guess. Last year we learned that Dr. Carl Stockton, Senior Vice President and Provost, was leaving to be president at an Auburn branch campus. He was gone in July. Then in September we learned that Dr. William A. Staples, President, was leaving as of August 2017. The business dean announced his retirement on the same date at about the same time. Then the dean of the College of Science and Computer Engineering announced that he was going to leave (right after securing a mechanical engineering degree program for our new building, to his credit).
On Friday, it was announced that Michelle Dotter, VP of Finance and Number Three honcho at UHCL will retire in February. Having worked with Michelle in my time as chair of the university's Planning and Budgeting Committee, I can say that this place will miss her very much. There have been times when she held the budget together through sheer force of will. I hate to give any academic administrator credit, but in her case she doesn't come from the ranks of academia and it was pretty obvious. She has certainly earned her retirement if anyone ever has.
The provost search has been put on hold while we find a president, but the search for the business dean and the president are going ahead full steam. It will be interesting to see what happens.
