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administration Bruce Benson Phil DiStefano President Chancellor 2010-11 University of Colorado Board of Regents Back Row: Joseph Neguse, Stephen Ludwig, James E. Geddes, Tom Lucero, Michael Carrigan. Front Row: Kyle Hybl, Tilman “Tillie” Russell L. Moore David Clough Mike Bohn Bishop (Vice Chair), Steve Bosley (Chair), Monisha Merchant Provost Faculty Rep Athletic Director Gail Pederson Ceal Barry David Plati Cory Hilliard Julie Manning Jim Senter John Krueger Chief of Staff Associate AD/SWA Associate AD Associate AD Associate AD Associate AD Assistant AD Charles Johnson Kris Livingston Scott McMichael Tom McGann J.T. Galloway Jamie Guy Megan Eisenhard Assistant AD Assistant AD Assistant AD Director of Director of Equipment Director of BSP General Manager Game Operations Sports Lindsay Lew Prema Khanna Dr. Eric McCarty Sheila Ridley Matt Roeder Miguel Rueda Will Simpson Director of Director of Marketing Director of Director of Student Director of Head Athletic Trainer Director of Strategic Sales Sports Medicine Athlete Wellness Marching Band Ticket Operations Kristen Sorensen Jeff Hoskin Jo Marchi Steve Wells Bart Emery Justin Urman John Templeton Director of IT Professional Compliance/SAAC Director Coors Events Center Promotions Audio Engineer Special Events Coors Events Center 15 President bruce Benson Before he became president of the West from 2006-08. Benson also served on the board of directors of the University of Colorado in March 2008, CU Foundation from 1990-96, and was a member of the CU Foundation Bruce D. Benson had already made his Development Cabinet from 1992-95. CU awarded him the University mark in business, politics, philanthropy, Medal in 1999 and the university’s Ira C. Rothgerber Award in 2003 education and civic endeavors. (one of two ever awarded). The CU Alumni Association honored him He founded Benson Mineral Group in with its Recognition Award in 2001. He also has provided significant 1965, a year after earning a degree in philanthropic support to CU. geology from CU. Over his career, he Benson was also one of the leaders of the 2005 statewide campaign has been involved in a variety of that successfully passed Referendum C, which provided additional business ventures, including real funding for education and the state budget. He was elected chairman estate, restaurants and banking. of the Colorado Republican Party four times, and was the Republican Three different Colorado governors nominee for governor in 1994. have named Benson to various education initiatives and governing As CU president, Benson leads a system of four campuses: Boulder, boards, including the Colorado Commission on Higher Education and Colorado Springs, Denver and the Anschutz Medical Campus. CU serves the Metro State College Board of Trustees, both of which he chaired. some 56,000 students and has a In addition, he co-chaired the P-20 Education Coordinating Council $2.7 billion annual budget. from 2007 until early 2008 and chaired the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Benson has received many honors recognizing his leadership in a Panel for Higher Education for the 21st Century from 2001 to 2003. variety of activities, but two are particularly notable: CU in 2004 He has been active in support of his alma mater. He was national granted him an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, and in February chairman of CU’s four-campus, $1 Billion Comprehensive Fund-Raising 2009, he was named to the Colorado Business Hall of Fame. Campaign from 1997-2003. He served as a director on the Coleman A native of Chicago, Benson has called Colorado home for nearly Colorado Foundation – Institute for Cognitive Disabilities from 2001- five decades. He is married to Marcy Head Benson. He has three adult 08. He was a board member for CU- Boulder’s Center for the American children and 10 grandchildren. Chancellor Phil DiStefano Dr. Philip P. DiStefano is the flourished as he assumed a series of academic and administrative Chancellor at the University of Colorado positions, including Professor, Associate Dean, Dean and Vice Boulder. Prior to his appointment on Chancellor. He was appointed Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for May 5, 2009, Dr. DiStefano was the top Academic Affairs in 2001. academic officer at CU-Boulder for As Chancellor he works closely with students, faculty, staff, alumni, eight years as the Provost and donors, governing officials, and business and community leaders in Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic extending CU's legacy as a preeminent national comprehensive research Affairs. He served as interim chancellor university. twice during pivotal times in the A first-generation college graduate, Dr. DiStefano earned a Bachelor university's history. of Science degree from Ohio State University and a Master of Arts Dr. DiStefano co-chaired the degree in English Education from West Virginia University. He holds a steering committee for CU-Boulder's Doctorate in Humanities Education from Ohio State University, where visionary strategic plan, Flagship 2030, conceived with campus, he served as a teaching and research associate. community and statewide input, to guide the university for decades to He began his educational career as a high school English teacher come. Today, Dr. DiStefano is shepherding its implementation as in Ohio. He has authored and co-authored numerous books and articles Flagship 2030 moves from vision to reality. on literacy education. Dr. DiStefano has served CU-Boulder for 36 years. He joined the Dr. DiStefano and his wife, Yvonne, have been married for 41 years University of Colorado in 1974 as an Assistant Professor of Curriculum and are the parents of three grown daughters and a granddaughter. and Instruction at the School of Education. His academic career 16 Provost Russell Moore Dr. Russell L. Moore has had a long He holds an adjunct professorship in medicine (cardiology) at the and distinguished career at the University of Colorado's Anschutz Medical Campus at the University of University of Colorado Boulder. As the Colorado Denver. interim provost since July 1, he is the He was an assistant and associate professor (1986-91) in the chief academic officer on the Boulder departments of medicine, cellular and molecular physiology at the campus. Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in Hershey, Pa. He did Dr. Moore also served as interim vice postdoctoral work at the University of Texas Health Science Center in chancellor for research from May 2009 to Dallas (1981-84). July 2010. Prior to that appointment, he Dr. Moore earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry from was associate vice chancellor for the University of California at Davis in 1976, and a master's degree research since 2006. (1978) and doctorate (1982) in physiology from Washington State Dr. Moore served as chair of University in Pullman, Wash. kinesiology and applied physiology (now integrative physiology) from 1994 to 2001, and was assistant professor (1984-86), associate professor (1993- 96) and full professor (1996-present) in that department. FACULTY REP DAVID CLOUGH David Clough, professor of chemical of the Department of Chemical Engineering and was responsible for and biological engineering, significant improvements to the department's undergraduate advising is in his sixth year as the University program. of Colorado’s Faculty Athletic Known for his willingness to experiment with new educational Representative (FAR), as he was named concepts and technology, Dr. Clough has worked to reform traditional to the position in March 2005. lecture classes into an interactive workshop format that greatly enhances Dr. Clough, 64, replaced current the learning of students. Through these efforts, he has helped to Chancellor Phil DiStefano, who had reshape the way engineering is taught. The student-run Engineering served as FAR from June 1, 2000 until Excellence Fund chose Dr. Clough as the first recipient of the Sullivan- just shortly after his appointment as Carlson Inspiration in Teaching Award in 1998. He has received numerous interim chancellor for the Boulder teaching and advising awards from nominations by his students over the campus in 2005. Clough is only the years. He also has been given the college's Hutchinson Teaching Award sixth FAR in CU history, joining a very and Peters Service Award. He received the first Boulder Faculty Assembly prestigious list: Walter Franklin (1947- Teaching Award in 1980 and the Boulder Campus Outstanding Advisor 1948), Warren Thompson (1949-1966), William Baughn (1967-1989), Award in 1996. His merit as an educator has also been recognized James Corbridge (1989-2000) and DiStefano (2000-2005). outside CU, as in 1995, the American Society for Engineering Education Dr. Clough has had a significant impact on engineering education at (Rocky Mountain Section) presented him with its first Outstanding CU-Boulder and beyond through career-long efforts to enhance the Educator Award. learning of engineering students. He has pioneered active- and In April 2000, he received the college’s Distinguished Engineering cooperative-learning techniques in the College of Engineering and Alumnus Award in the Education category. It recognized his significant Applied Science, and in 1989 he originated the concept of the Integrated impact on engineering education through pioneering the active learning Teaching and Learning Laboratory (ITLL). Clough’s research has focused concept for the ITLL, and in leading the college in changing traditional on the automated control of chemical and related processes. lecture courses to an active learning format. He also has been involved with student-athletes for a long time, as In his role as Faculty Athletics Representative, Clough represents CU he’s had a relationship with the CU athletic department for over 30 years. to the Big 12 Conference (and soon to the Pacific 10) and the NCAA. He For his entire faculty career, Clough has taken a special interest in provides a liaison between Athletics and the faculty and works to engineering student-athletes, as early on he gained an appreciation for enhance the educational experience of our ~350 student-athletes.