Paul Snyder to serve as acting VP
Archived article from Jan 26, 2001
By Phyllis Gottlieb
Paul Snyder, director of the Office of Institutional Research and Academic Planning, has been named acting vice president for institutional research and planning. The appointment was announced by President Francis L. Lawrence.
Snyder will replace Christine Haska, who is leaving the university at the end of January to return to her native California. Snyder will be responsible for Institutional Research and Computing Services, and University Relations will be attached to the president's office.
Snyder joined the university in 1995. He was previously director of programs and services at the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education and assistant director of the Office of Licensure and Statewide Planning for the New Jersey Department of Higher Education. In the 1980s, he spent four years as an academic planner at Rutgers.
For the past five years, Snyder has played a major role in key administrative efforts. These include implementing the university's strategic plan, "A New Vision for Excellence," overseeing the Strategic Resource and Opportunity Analysis, and coordinating the 1998 reaccreditation visit from the Middle States Association.
His office is also responsible for processing requests for new academic programs and centers; providing data, reports and notifications for the university community, the federal government and external organizations; serving as liaison to various state regulatory agencies; and producing the Rutgers Fact Book and other publications.
Snyder holds a B.A. in anthropology from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in physical anthropology from the University of Cambridge.
In announcing Haska's departure, Lawrence praised her dedication to Rutgers during her 10 years at the university. "I am more grateful than I can easily express for her very substantial contributions to the university's progress over the past decade," Lawrence wrote in a letter to the university community. "Perhaps her greatest skill, and the one for which I am most grateful at the moment, is her ability to hire excellent individuals to whom she can delegate operational responsibility in each of these areas with complete confidence that each will be able to continue at the same high level of performance."
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