{"667589":{"#nid":"667589","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Charles Isbell Named Provost at University of Wisconsin-Madison","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECharles Isbell, dean and John P. Imlay chair of Computing, has accepted the position of provost at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His last day at Georgia Tech is July 31.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EIsbell is a Georgia Tech alumnus (B.S. ICS \u201990), and came back to join the College of Computing as a junior faculty member in 2002. He served as an architect for innovative Threads curriculum, and of the Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) program. He became the dean of the college in 2019. Under his leadership the college maintained top-10 rankings while doubling in enrollment. He has worked to make the field of computing aware of its social responsibility, winning this year\u2019s prestigious Richard Tapia Award for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science and Diversifying Computing from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cDean Isbell\u2019s students, colleagues, and the Institute have all been witnesses and beneficiaries of his love for his alma mater as he has served in varying faculty and administrative roles over the last two decades,\u201d said Steve McLaughlin, Georgia Tech\u2019s provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cHe has truly been a transformational leader and a constant and enthusiastic champion for excellence, strategic growth, accessibility, and creating an exceptional teaching and learning environment here at Tech. We will miss him greatly, and we offer him our warmest congratulations as he embarks on this next chapter.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAlthough he is leaving the dean\u2019s office, Isbell said he will always be an active member of the Georgia Tech community.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cTech is my alma mater, which in Latin means \u2018mother of my soul.\u2019\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EI grew into adulthood\u2014or something close to it\u2014as an undergraduate at Tech, learned how to be a professor here, and I have had the joy of helping to work with all of you to build the community in positions of leadership. This community has in fact\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;nurtured my soul,\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E and I will always give back to it any way I can.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAs provost, Isbell will hold the second-highest office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The university, which at nearly 50,000 students is one of the largest universities in the country, ranks #14 among national public universities in \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News and World Report.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECharles Isbell, dean and John P. Imlay chair of Computing, has accepted the position of provost at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His last day at Georgia Tech is July 31.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u201cHe has truly been a transformational leader and a constant and enthusiastic champion for excellence, strategic growth, accessibility, and creating an exceptional teaching and learning environment here at Tech,\u201d said Provost Steve McLaughlin"}],"uid":"27165","created_gmt":"2023-05-01 17:16:33","changed_gmt":"2023-05-01 19:56:29","author":"Susie Ivy","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-05-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-05-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"670698":{"id":"670698","type":"image","title":"Charles_Isbell.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003ECharles Isbell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1682961634","gmt_created":"2023-05-01 17:20:34","changed":"1682961634","gmt_changed":"2023-05-01 17:20:34","alt":"Charles Isbell","file":{"fid":"253606","name":"Charles_Isbell_Jr_MG_2061.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/05\/01\/Charles_Isbell_Jr_MG_2061.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/05\/01\/Charles_Isbell_Jr_MG_2061.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":271066,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/05\/01\/Charles_Isbell_Jr_MG_2061.jpg?itok=YyjrTdqy"}}},"media_ids":["670698"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"654","name":"College of Computing"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOffice of the Provost\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Eprovostsoffice@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["provostsoffice@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}