http://www.reportermag.com/ Tag: Provost from Reporter Online. en-us http://www.reportermag.com/article/128 No one is happy with the situation. No one profits from having our own Provost serve as our special guest speaker at Commencement. In all fairness, there is nothing wrong with Dr. McKenzie as a person. (Granted, Ive only seen the man once, and that was when he spoke at that other big C: Convocation.) It is unfortunate that he will be leaving RIT with the most stigmatized RIT Commencement in recent history. Being stuck with our own provost for a Commencement speaker is about as... Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/128 http://www.reportermag.com/article/165 After over four decades of service to RIT, Dr. Stan McKenzie is retiring from his position as Provost. McKenzie began his career in 1967 as an instructor and after rising through the ranks, was appointed provost in 1994. President Destler has called the man an "RIT institution" who has played "a major role in the advancement of the university into the ranks of the nation's largest and finest private universities." In recognition of his years of service, McKenzie will be speaking at... Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/165 http://www.reportermag.com/article/134 RIT will be facilitating new research and development opportunities, which will be open to both undergraduate and graduate students. The RIT Board of Trustees has announced that it will be working with SG to meet with different companies, some involved with sustainability practices. "The main objective is to strengthen our relations with business," said SG President Ed Wolf. VP Sasha Malinchoc explained, "Companies will pay students to do research for them, while RIT continues to get its... Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/134 http://www.reportermag.com/article/40 On Monday, March 10, President William Destler announced that Dr. Jeremy Haefner would be succeeding Dr. Stanley McKenzie as RIT's Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs. This announcement comes after a five month, multi-national search for a replacement for McKenzie, who is retiring after 13 years as provost and a total of 40 years at RIT. The search, which narrowed a pool of about eighty applicants down to five finalists, placed the shortlist on Destler's desk in... Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/40