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The Provost's Office: An Informal HistoryAddendumThe following text was created by the staff of NCSU's Special Collections Research Center to supplement Nash Winstead's original text, created in 1999, on the history of the Office of the Provost. PROVOSTS SINCE 1998Kermit Hall
B.A. University of Akron Prior to coming to NCSU, Hall had he served as Dean of the College of Humanities and Executive Dean of the College of the Arts and Sciences at Ohio State University. Previous to that he had served in administrative posts and held faculty appointments in history and law at the University of Tulsa, the University of Florida, Wayne State University, and Vanderbilt University. In January 2001 he became president of Utah State University. Stuart L. Cooper
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963 Cooper had been vice president and chief academic officer at Illinois Institute of Technology prior to coming to NCSU. He resigned as provost in January 2003 but remained on the faculty of the Department of Chemical Engineering for the remainder of that year. In 2004 he became chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Ohio State University. James L. Oblinger
B.S. DePauw University, 1967 Oblinger became provost after serving as dean of NCSU's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. After serving as provost, he became NCSU's thirteenth chancellor. More information on his life and career can be found online. Larry A. Nielsen
B. S. University of Illinois, 1970 Nielsen was appointed dean of NCSU's College of Natural Resources in 2001. He was named Interim Provost in November 2004, and he was selected as Provost and Excecutive Vice Chancellor effective July 11, 2005. He served until May 2009.
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