Organizational chart for the Office of the Provost
Jean-Pierre (Peter) Mileur, most recently professor and chair of the Department of English, brings nearly two decades of higher education administrative experience with him to his position as interim provost. He came to Binghamton in August 2000, as dean of Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, a position he held for seven years. Prior to that, Mileur had been associate dean, then dean, of the Graduate Division at the University of California, Riverside for a decade. Mileur received his bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and the MA, MPhil and PhD in English from Yale University. As interim provost, Mileur is Binghamton's chief academic officer, administering all academic programs, while also seeing to their enhancement and to the development of the curriculum at all levels. Mileur oversees academic staff recruitment, retention and promotion, and the academic budget; works with the deans of each school to support faculty in their contributions to Binghamton's instructional, research and outreach missions; and provides overall leadership in moving Binghamton's academic plan forward.
Provost Mileur's office is located in room 707 of the Couper Administration Building (AD-707). His phone number is 607-777-2141. E-mail: jpmileur@binghamton.edu.
Katharine C. Krebs came to Binghamton University as director of International Education in 1994. As vice provost for international affairs, she guides the University’s internationalization processes and oversees the Office of International Programs (OIP), the unit responsible for University-wide international partnerships, programs and projects. These include Binghamton’s international exchange and study abroad programs, the Global Studies Minor (GSM), Languages Across the Curriculum (LxC) and the Dual-Diploma Programs with Turkey.
Krebs earned a BA degree in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico and MA and PhD degrees in Spanish from Tulane University. With over 20 years of experience in international education, she also has worked at the University of Pennsylvania and the State University of New York at Albany. Krebs has established international partnerships and study abroad programs around the world, notably in Latin America, Spain, the United Kingdom, Israel, Morocco, Turkey, China and Korea. Prior experience also includes refugee resettlement work and the teaching of English as a Second Language, Spanish language and Latin American literature.
Krebs is a recipient of the Chancellor’s and University Awards for Excellence in Professional Service. In 1999, she was selected for the Fulbright Administrator’s Program to Korea. She is an associate editor of Frontiers, The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad and is an active member of the Forum on Education Abroad and of the Association of International Education Administrators. Within SUNY, she serves on the Advisory Board to the Council of International Education. Nationally she has served as an external evaluator for education abroad programs and is a frequent speaker at international education conferences. Recently, for two consecutive years, she has secured grants from the German Fulbright Commission to host a Summer Institute for German students of technology at Binghamton.
Vice Provost Krebs' office is located in room 709 of the Couper Administration Building (AD-709). Her phone number is 607-777-2142. E-mail: kkrebs@binghamton.edu.
Donald J. Loewen began his position as half-time vice provost for undergraduate education in fall 2010. He remains a half-time associate professor of Russian and also currently serves as chair of the Department of German and Russian Studies.
Loewen received his BA in 1984 from the University of Winnipeg, where he was a double major in religious studies and English literature, and his MA and PhD in Slavic languages and literatures from the University of Wisconsin, in 1993 and 2001 respectively. He and his family lived in Moscow from 1997-2000, and he joined the Binghamton faculty in 2001. He has published a book (The Most Dangerous Art) and a variety of articles on the autobiographies of Russian poets, and has written and spoken on a broad variety of other topics. Loewen's current major research project is on the role of Soviet-era monuments in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. In the summer of 2010 he visited numerous monuments and monument parks in Germany, Hungary, Lithuania and Russia to gather materials and take photographs for this project. He received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2007 and in Spring 2012 he will be teaching "Russia and the World," an interdisciplinary cultural history of Russia/USSR from 1900 to the present with a special focus on Russia's relationship with the United States.
As vice provost, Loewen works closely with the faculty masters in the University's residential communities, as well as with the Binghamton Scholars Program, the Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT) and the Office of External Scholarships. His goal is for undergraduate students and the faculty who teach them to be engaged in continually improving the undergraduate education experience at Binghamton, fostering a campus culture of intellectual excellence and aspiration. Loewen retains his role as a member of the faculty and hopes to strengthen contacts between the Office of the Provost, faculty and students so that undergraduate education at Binghamton will continue to improve and the value of an undergraduate degree will increase over time.
Vice Provost Loewen's office is located in room 713 of the Couper Administration Building (AD-713). His phone number is 607-777-2141. E-mail: djloewen@binghamton.edu.
Michael F. McGoff, vice provost for strategic and fiscal planning, is the former associate dean for academic affairs and administration at the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science. He has been employed at the University since 1967 and had been a member of the dean of the Watson School's staff since the establishment of the school in 1983. During the period of 1988-1990, he also served as acting chairman of the Department of Computer Science and from 2008-2009, he served as acting vice president for administration for the University.
Prior to the establishment of the Watson School, McGoff served as assistant dean in the School of Advanced Technology (SAT) at Binghamton and was acting dean of SAT in 1982 and 1983. He earned an associate's degree from Broome Community College and the bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from the State University of New York at Binghamton. His doctoral dissertation earned the distinguished dissertation award.
He is the editor of The Ehrensperger Report, an annual collection that describes the status of current research in the field of onomastics. He is a member of the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) and is the convener of the Academic Planning Academy for SCUP. He is a member of the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), the American Name Society, the American Dialect Society and the International Congress of Onomastic Sciences. He is also past project director for SUNY's Alliance for Minority Participation, Binghamton Region, an NSF-funded program locally called the Binghamton Success Program.
As vice provost for strategic and fiscal planning, he is responsible for developing and maintaining base budgets for the University's academic units and for developing strategies, assessments and information that guide decisions about University program development. In addition to his responsibilities for the provost, the vice provost for strategic and fiscal planning has the following responsibilities:
He has direct-line responsibility for the operations of the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, the Office of Course Building and Academic Space Management, the Anderson Center for the Performing Arts, the University Art Museum and the Office of Strategic and Fiscal Planning. He also has dotted-line reporting responsibility for the Educational Communications Center. McGoff also serves as the Ethics Officer for the University.
The vice provost reports to the provost and vice president for academic affairs and has a dotted reporting line to the president.
He is married to Donna Pylypciw, an artist and musician. They have one child, Anna, who is a graduate student at Georgetown University.
Vice Provost McGoff's office is located in room 711 of the Couper Administration Building (AD-711). His phone number is 607-777-2143. E-mail: mmcgoff@binghamton.edu
A professor of biological sciences, Nancy Stamp was appointed dean of the Graduate School in August 2003. She has a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University, a MAT from the University of Pittsburgh, a MS from Arizona State University and a PhD from the University of Maryland. She had two University-wide postdoctoral research associate positions, one at the University of Florida and another at the University of California at Davis. She has been at Binghamton University since 1984. She is a community ecologist specializing in plant-insect herbivore-predator interactions. She has authored numerous articles, served on editorial boards of journals, served on numerous NSF funding panels and been an invited speaker at national conferences. One of her recent articles is "Out of the Quagmire of Plant Defense Hypotheses" in the Quarterly Review of Biology. She has also had grants focusing on teaching science in K-12 schools and at the University .Currently she is co-PI for a Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant that focuses on training undergraduates and graduate students for interdisciplinary research. In 1995, she received the Chancellor's and University Awards for Excellence in Teaching and has served as graduate director of biological sciences.
Vice Provost and Dean Stamp's office is in room 127 of the Couper Administration Building (AD-127). Her phone number is 607-777-2070. E-mail: nstamp@binghamton.edu. Personal web page: http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~nstamp/
Sandra Starke serves as the Vice Provost for Enrollment Management at Binghamton University. Since April 1999 she has been responsible for the recruitment, marketing, enrollment and retention of the University's undergraduate students. She is also responsible for records, financial aid services and technology innovation as it relates to student systems.
Using strategic enrollment management practices the University ensures academic strength, diversity of student populations and geographic representation. The office provides campus leadership in efforts targeted at the successful integration and retention of students.
She has over 28 years of finance experience in state and local government, the last eighteen of those years in higher education. She previously served the University as Assistant Vice President of Finance and Planning, overseeing the Budget and Institutional Research Offices. Before that she was the Deputy Budget Director for the city of Albany, New York. She received her Master's degree in Public Administration from the Nelson Rockefeller School of Public Affairs. In 1992 she was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Nelson Rockefeller School.
She has presented numerous seminars on fiscal and productivity analysis and the use of data and data analysis to support academic and enrollment planning and policy development. Most recently she has been presenting on integrating fiscal and enrollment planning as well as integrating planning and assessment in higher education.
Vice Provost Starke's office is located in room 110 of the Academic A building (AA-110). Her phone number is 607-777-2728. E-mail: sstarke@binghamton.edu.
Charles R. Westgate received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his MA and Ph in electrical engineering from Princeton University. He joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins and advanced to the rank of professor and held the William B. Kouwenhoven Professor of Electrical Engineering Chair. He served as the associate dean for part-time programs in engineering, associate dean for academic affairs, department chair and interim dean of engineering. He was appointed a member of the Principal Professional Staff of the Applied Physics Laboratory. In 2001, he was appointed dean of the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science at Binghamton. He is currently a Bartle professor at Binghamton and Director of the Center for Autonomous Solar Power. He supervised numerous doctoral students and received teaching awards from Johns Hopkins, as well as the Johns Hopkins Heritage Award. His areas of expertise are in circuits, electronics, electromagnetism and high-frequency circuits.
Vice Provost Westgate's office is in room 2612 of the Biotechnology Building (BI-2612). His phone number is 607-777-6598. E-mail: westgate@binghamton.edu.
Daniel Jardine began his career at Binghamton University in 2000 as a Research Analyst in the Office of Institutional Research. Jardine was appointed Associate Director of OIRA in 2008 and currently serves as Acting Director. Jardine earned a B.A. in Social Sciences from St. Bonaventure University and a M.A. in Geography/Planning from Binghamton University. Prior to his employment at Binghamton University, Jardine was a consultant at GeoDemographics, Ltd. specializing in the development and use of geographic information systems. Jardine published multiple chapters in a special volume of New Directions for Institutional Research in 2003 that focused on the use of geographic information systems in institutional research. Jardine has also served on the Executive Committee of the Association for Institutional Research and Planning Officers (AIRPO).
As Acting Director Jardine manages OIRA's data, research, and assessment activities. The office supports the University's mission by conducting analyses to inform decision makers, providing official statistics to the campus community and several external constituents, and facilitating the University's student learning, program, and institutional assessment activities.
Jardine's office is located in room 309 of the Couper Administration Building (AD-309). His phone number is 607-777-2365. E-mail: djardine@binghamton.edu
Thomas Kowalik is director of the Division of Continuing Education and Outreach and provides leadership for the development of the institution’s continuing education programs. As the principal academic and administrative officer of continuing education and outreach, the director oversees policy, programmatic and fiscal management in the areas of summer and winter sessions, continuing education and advising. Working with all campus units, the director shapes and guides implementation of University policies affecting continuing education; oversees activities involving academic and administrative matters; and works closely with deans, staff and faculty in problem resolution in order to ensure student learning needs are met and programs are successful. Kowalik is internationally recognized within the field of continuing higher education and was recently inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame. He is a past president of the University Continuing Education Association and is past president of the Coalition of Lifelong Learning Organizations. Kowalik frequently acts as a consultant to numerous North American universities, state agencies, private corporations and the U.S. military. He has received numerous awards for leadership, program development, research and scholarship. For more information see: http://ceo.binghamton.edu/kowalik/
Dr. Kowalik's office is located in the Public Service Programs Center (PSPC). He can be reached at 607-777-2792. E-mail: kowalik@binghamton.edu
Rodger Summers was appointed as vice president for student affairs at Binghamton University in 1991. After 17 years, he stepped down and taught for a short while in the Student Affairs Administration Program in the College of Community and Public Affairs.
Prior to coming to Binghamton, he was vice president at two other institutions, along with various other positions to round out his 40 years of service in student affairs administration. As a special assistant to the provost, Summers is working with underrepresented students to help them earn graduate and professional degrees. Summers holds a bachelor’s degree in comprehensive English, an MA in English (restoration prose and poetry), an EdD in higher education, a minor in student personnel administration and minors in English/history outside of the major field. He is married to Dr. Pamela French Summers and they have two daughters: Megan, a fund developer in Boston, and Jordan, a graduate from Potsdam Crane School of Music who is pursuing admission to a graduate program in Music.
Summers' office is located in room 310 of the Couper Administration Building (AD-310). His phone number is 607-777-2142. E-mail: rsummers@binghamton.edu.
Kelly Wemette joined Binghamton University's staff in 1994, and currently holds the position of director of the Office of Strategic and Fiscal Planning under the direction of Michael F. McGoff. Wemette graduated in December 2002 from Binghamton University with a master of arts in social sciences and a concentration in public administration. Her undergraduate degree is in business management from SUNY at Plattsburgh.
Wemette is the initial contact person in the Office of the Provost regarding annual faculty reports and the faculty reporting website; budget requests and allocations within academic affairs; the discretionary salary increase process for faculty and professional staff in academic affairs; the Academic Program and Faculty Development Fund; the NYS/UUP Individual Development Awards Program; the NYS/UUP Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Affirmative Action/Diversity Leave Program; procedures for personnel cases; the Provost's Inter/Multidisciplinary Symposia Program; and sabbatical requests.
Wemette's husband, Terry, is an engineer at NYSEG; and together they have two children, Randy and Heidi.
Wemette' office is located in room 708 of the Couper Administration Building (AD-708). Her phone number is 607-777-4801. E-mail: kwemette@binghamton.edu.
Liz Abate has been part of Binghamton University's staff since October 1995. She served as administrative assistant for undergraduate programs in psychology and psychobiology before joining the Office of the Provost as assistant for undergraduate education in October 2002. Prior to her employment at Binghamton, Abate was the proprietor of a desktop publishing business in Pennsylvania. She received her BA in English from Wilkes University (Wilkes-Barre, Penn.) and attended graduate school at the University of Michigan.
Abate serves as the assistant to the provost and as the coordinator of Binghamton's General Education Program and provides administrative support for undergraduate initiatives under the direction of Vice Provost Loewen. She also coordinates the production of the University Bulletin and the Faculty-Staff Handbook, maintains the website for the Provost's Office, and serves as the initial contact in the Provost's Office regarding academic honesty cases.
Abate's husband, Murnal, is the assistant director for summer and winter sessions at Binghamton University. Together they have one child, Sarah-Jane.
Abate’s office is located in room 705A of the Couper Administration Building (AD-705A). Her phone number is 607-777-2146. E-mail: labate@binghamton.edu.
Vicki Griffin may be contacted at 607-777-2141 or vgriffin@binghamton.edu
Cheryl Nestlerode may be contacted at 607-777-2143 or cnestle@binghamton.edu
