Second candidate for UVa-Wise chancellorship to visit campus June 23-24

The second of four finalists for the chancellorship of The University of Virginia’s College at Wise will visit the campus on June 23-24.

Lawrence Wayne Markert, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Hollins University, will spend two days in Wise meeting with faculty, staff, students, and members of the UVa-Wise Board. Markert will participate in an open forum with staff at 11 a.m. on June 23 in the Chapel of All Faiths, followed by an open forum with faculty at 1 p.m. in the Chapel, and an open student forum at 2:15 p.m. in the Honor Court Room of the C. Bascom Slemp Student Center. The public is invited to attend the open sessions.

James M. Gott, who chairs the Chancellor Search Committee, has described the four candidates who will be visiting UVa-Wise in June and July as “outstanding” and “tremendously credentialed in their educational backgrounds.”

“All have come up through the ranks from teaching to serve as deans and in the upper levels of administration,” Gott said.

Lawrence Wayne Markert

A scholar and professor of English, Markert received his doctoral degree from the University of Oxford in England in 1985. He is the author of three books and several articles, and a number of his poems have also been published, including four poetry chapbooks and folios.

At Hollins, Markert was vice president for academic affairs from 1997 until 2003. Markert also served as the acting president of Hollins during the 2004-2005 academic year. Before his time at Hollins, Markert served as the dean for the Evans School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Berry College from 1995 to 1997, and dean of the Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts at the University of Baltimore from 1989 to 1994.

Markert earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oxford in 1978; a master’s degree in creative writing from The Johns Hopkins University in 1972; and his bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Baltimore in 1971.

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