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.