University of Nevada President's Office
Milton Glick was selected by the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents May 5, 2006 to become the 15th president of the University of Nevada, Reno. He succeeds John Lilley, who left the University in December to become Baylor University president.
Before coming to Nevada, Glick served as executive vice president and provost of Arizona State. In that role, which included responsibilities for all of the Arizona State University campuses, he coordinated the building of all university programs and the academic planning and budgeting activities associated with these programs. From 1991 to 2002, Glick held the position of senior vice president and provost at ASU. He also held a faculty appointment in chemistry and biochemistry department.
Prior to his ASU appointment, Glick had been provost at Iowa State University for three years, also serving the Ames campus as interim president for eight months. Previously, he served as dean of the College of Arts and Science at the University of Missouri from 1983 to 1988. He was a member of the chemistry faculty at Wayne State University for 17 years, including five years as chair of the department.
Glick has actively promoted the careers of minorities and women in academia, receiving the 1988 Award for Exemplary Service in Enhancing the Status of Minorities at the University of Missouri.
During his tenure at ASU, Glick achieved progress on numerous fronts: increases in undergraduate student success with significant gains in retention and graduation; substantial growth in the size and quality of the freshman class; dramatic increases in the retention and number of minority students (with retention rates equal to that of the overall freshman class); the emergence of a number of interdisciplinary strategic research areas; the university's advancement to Research I status; both a budget stabilization for the university and a reduction in the market gap for faculty and staff salaries; and the initiation of more collaborative efforts between the faculty, administration and board of regents to allow for constructive engagement of issues critical to the university's future.
Glick has published more than 100 articles on structural chemistry, trends in higher education, and information technology. In 2004, he was invited to share his expertise on a national level as a senior fellow for the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR). Glick will continue to advise on ongoing ECAR research, in particular its new research on the relationship between institutional process performance and information technology investment, leadership and culture.
Glick earned his bachelor's degree from Augustana College and his doctor of philosophy in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
He and his wife, Peggy, have two children and two grandchildren.
