Minter Named Interim Provost

Minter Named Interim Provost

RICE NEWS
April 1, 1999

David Minter, the Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of English, was named interim provost at Rice University, President Malcolm Gillis announced last week.

Minter will temporarily fill the post while a search committee compiles a list of candidates for provost, the position currently held by David Auston, who was named president of Case Western Reserve University earlier this month.

“David Minter is known far and wide as a leading literary scholar,” Gillis said. “On the Rice campus he is widely recognized as a truly outstanding teacher and mentor. In addition, David’s record of service to the university has been one of the most distinguished and fruitful in the univer-sity’s history. Today, David has again agreed to put the university’s vital interest ahead of his own. We are more deeply in his debt than ever before.”

Minter came to Rice in 1967 from Yale University, where he was a lecturer in English and American studies. In 1980 he moved to Emory University, where he served as dean of Emory College and vice president of arts and sciences. As dean of the college, he was head of the faculty of arts and sciences. In that capacity he was responsible for faculty development, course development and student recruitment.

In 1990, Minter returned to Rice. He served as interim vice provost and university librarian in the 1995-96 academic year during a period of transition for Fondren Library. He is the author of numerous articles and books covering his area of research–American literature, primarily from 1880-1940.