After a six-month search, Chancellor Sherry H. Penney has announced the appointment of Charles C. Cnudde to provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs effective in July.
Dr. Cnudde is currently the Dean of the College of Social Sciences,
Professor of Political Science, and Professor of Public
Administration and Policy at Florida State University. He brings a
wealth of administrative experience to the position of provost,
having served as chair of the department of government at the
University of Texas at Austin for seven years. Prior to that, he was
chair of the Department of Political Science at Michigan State
University for seven years, and director of the program in public
administration for five years.
His academic appointments include professorships at the University of
North Carolina, North Carolina State University, the University of
California at Irvine, and the University of Wisconsin, in addition to
Michigan State and the University of Texas. He has published broadly
in the field of Political Science.
During his tenure at Florida State University, Dr. Cnudde served on
several statewide commissions and boards, and he has been active in
international academic research in China, England, and Yugoslavia. He
was a U.S. representative to the International Institute for
Comparative Government Research, in Switzerland and Italy. He holds
an honorary professorship at the University of St. Kliment Ohridski,
Bitola, in the Republic of Macedonia.
"I am very pleased that Dr. Cnudde has accepted our invitation to
serve as our chief academic officer, and I look forward to working
closely with him when he arrives in July. I believe that the wealth
of experience he brings to the job will serve the University well as
we move into a new century," says Chancellor Penney.