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4.14.06 FOGEL APPOINTS NEW PROVOST
John Hughes, a highly accomplished researcher, scholar and higher education administrator, will become the new provost and senior vice president at the University of Vermont, President Daniel Mark Fogel announced April 13.
Hughes has been serving as associate provost for research and scholarship and dean of the Graduate School at Miami University of Ohio for the past three years. He was associate dean of the College of Arts and Science for the previous two years. Hughes has also built a successful academic career in geology at Miami for the past 25 years, moving up the ranks first as assistant professor, then associate professor and professor. He also assumed leadership positions in the Geology Department at Miami as associate chair and chair.
“I am delighted to join the faculty and administration at the University of Vermont” Hughes noted. “The University has an outstanding faculty and senior administrative team, and President Fogel’s strategic vision is distinguishing the University in many, many ways. Susan and I moved from Vermont 25 years ago, and we are indeed pleased to return.”
Fogel said he was extremely pleased with the outcome of the highly competitive search, which drew 68 applications from across the country. “John Hughes has distinguished himself at Miami University by his reasoned and passionate commitment to faculty achievement, student success, and staff engagement. He fully subscribes to the UVM vision of inextricable linkages among learning and discovery, diversity and inclusion, service and outreach, and academic excellence. He is a gifted academic leader and administrator. We are lucky to have a new colleague of his caliber to help us all continue UVM’s drive toward the highest levels of quality and value.”
Hughes will succeed Andrew John Bramley, who has served as senior vice president and provost throughout the Fogel administration, following service as interim provost under interim President Edwin I. Colodny. “Bramley has played a key role — and often the lead role — in UVM’s major advances over the course of the last few years. I will be looking to John Hughes to play a similar role as my most important partner in building value at UVM for the benefit of students, faculty, staff, and the State of Vermont,” Fogel said.
Among his administrative accomplishments at Miami, Hughes oversaw a doubling of external research awards in two years, consolidated the Office of Sponsored Research and the Graduate School, and improved graduate student diversity and compensation.
Hughes also is an accomplished researcher. Throughout his academic career he has successfully secured grants from the National Science Foundation, private corporations, and the Ohio Board of Regents, totaling more than $3 million to pursue his interest in minerals and geologic education, among others. Hughes has published three books and has authored or co-authored numerous papers in publications such as American Mineralogist, Canadian Mineralogist and the European Journal of Mineralogy.
Hughes earned a doctorate and a master’s from Dartmouth College and a bachelor’s from Franklin and Marshall College. Hughes has been married for 33 years to his wife Susan, a professor of accounting at Butler University, who will join the faculty of UVM’s School of Business Administration. They have two children, Gareth (27), who lives in Boston, and Rebecca (24), who lives in the Washington, DC area.
Hughes will start his new position at UVM on July 1. His appointment is subject to approval by the Board of Trustees, which is scheduled to take place at the board’s May meeting.