Current President's Cabinet Members 

M. Duane Nellis, President

Kathy Aiken, Dean, College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences

Doug Baker, Provost and Executive Vice President

Jeanne Christiansen, Vice Provost, Academic Affairs

Mark Edwards, Assistant to the President for Diversity, Equity and Community and Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs

Patty Houle, Executive Assistant to the President, ex officio

Steve Johnson, Director Alumni Relations

Kevin Ketchie, Presidential Events Director, ex officio

Mike Loehring, Staff Affairs President
Jack McIver, Vice President for Research
Jack Miller, Faculty Senate Chair

Jack Morris, Dean, College of Business and Economics

Lloyd Mues, Vice President for Finance and Administration

Chris Murray, Vice President for Advancement

Steve Neiheisel, Assistant Vice President, Enrollment Management

Kent Nelson, University Counsel, ex officio

Marty Peterson, Special Assistant to the President

Bruce Pitman, Vice Provost for Student Affairs and Dean of Students

Rob Spear, Athletics Director
Carmen Suarez, Director, Office of Human Rights, Access and Inclusion
Kelby Wilson, ASUI President

The President's Cabinet

The role of the cabinet is to advise the president, provide effective, responsive, and informed leadership to the university, and provide penultimate review of recommendations on matters of broad institutional significance.

The cabinet will ensure that the university makes timely progress toward its goal of advancing as one of the nation’s best universities by:
  • Ensuring that the university successfully meets its mission
  • Inculcating the university's core values throughout the organization
  • Setting professional, productive, ethical, and behavioral expectations throughout the university's policies and practices
  • Maintaining the institution's financial and legal integrity
  • Enabling successful leadership throughout the university that reflects trust, integrity,openness, accountability, and timely responsiveness.
In practice, the cabinet discusses most major policy and operational issues affecting the university. The cabinet never votes, but rather its members offer recommendations and perspectives on university-wide policies and practices, and it provides advice to other cabinet members in decisions that are more specific to various programs and parts of the university.