Staffing Up:
New Faces
        New Leadership

After filling 20 presidential vacancies throughout the University System during his six-year tenure, Chancellor Stephen Portch made his first re-appointments during the past year to the slate of senior vice chancellors reporting directly to him at the Central Office.

Dr. Daniel S. Papp, former director of educational programs for the Yamacraw Mission and professor of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, was named in June of 2000 as senior vice chancellor of academic affairs with the Board of Regents. His appointment concluded an aggressive national search that was conducted to fill the post.

Papp's appointment was approved in June, and he began his new assignment on July 17. In his current capacity, Papp is responsible for meeting the academic needs of more than 200,000 University System students and for working with over 8,000 USG faculty members.

He assumes his post at a time when the Board of Regents is engaged in conducting an extensive benchmarking initiative aimed at identifying the System's strengths, weaknesses and national peers. He also is responsible for implementing the board's Technology Master Plan for the utilization of technology in academic and administrative operations. In addition, he will oversee the final phase of implementing the University System's rigorous admissions policy, aimed at improving traditional students' preparation for college.

A seasoned administrator, Papp has held five senior administrative positions within the University System. With the Yamacraw project, he had been responsible for coordinating the participation of eight USG institutions in an initiative aimed at helping Georgia become a world leader in broadband technology. He was charged with overseeing faculty hiring in high-tech academic disciplines and with guiding the integration of the System's research, educational and economic development programs in that arena.

During 1997-98, Papp served as interim president of Southern Polytechnic State University. Previously, he had served as executive assistant to the president of Georgia Tech, from 1994-97, while also maintaining an academic appointment as a professor of International Affairs. During his long-standing career at Georgia Tech, Papp also held two directorships at the institution: as professor and founding director of the School of International Affairs, from 1990-93, and as director of the School of Social Sciences, from 1980-90.

An accomplished academic, Papp has served not only on the faculty of Georgia Tech, but also has held visiting and research professor roles at Fudan University in Shanghai, China; the Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education, at the U.S. Air University, in Montgomery, Alabama; the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College, in Carlisle, Pa., and the Western Australia Institute of Technology, in Perth, Australia.

In 1993-94, Papp was named a Georgia Tech "Distinguished Professor." He is the author of numerous scholarly works in international affairs, and has authored or edited twelve books. Papp also is a senior fellow for international security affairs at the Southern Center for International Studies and a member of the Society of International Business Fellows.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth College, Papp received his Ph.D. from the University of Miami of Florida, in 1973. His research specialties include international security policy, U.S. and Russian foreign and defense policies, and the impact of information and communication technologies on international affairs.

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