Alumni Spotlight

Dean Robert Easter Named Interim Provost

Chancellor Richard Herman announced Robert Easter (’76 Ph.D. Animal Sciences), dean of the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he will be named interim provost designate as of July 1, 2009, pending approval by the Board of Trustees. Dean Easter will assume the position of interim provost on August 17, 2009.

Robert A. Easter was appointed Dean of the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois on July 21, 2002. Easter served as Head of the Department of Animal Sciences from August 1996 to August 2001 and has been on the Animal Sciences faculty since 1976. Reared on a grain and livestock farm in southwest Texas, he earned an undergraduate degree in Agricultural Education in 1970 and a Master of Science degree in animal nutrition in 1972, both from Texas A&M University. He completed a doctorate in Animal Science at the University of Illinois in 1976 and immediately joined the Animal Science Department faculty as an assistant professor of swine nutrition and management.

Dean Easter is an exceptional leader, highly respected among the faculty and peers across campus, the nation and around the world. He's a long-serving dean that has led the College of ACES with great skill, managing a variety of internal and external constituencies.

Congratulations Dr. Robert Easter!

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