Another Ohio University dean has announced he will step down from his position.
Jack Brose, dean of OU’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, will retire as dean July 1, said Becky Watts, chief of staff to OU President Roderick McDavis.
The university does not plan to hire an interim dean but rather will form a search committee to seek a replacement dean during this academic year, said Ann Fidler, chief of staff to OU Executive Vice President and Provost Pam Benoit.
Brose, who currently makes $216,373, will take a new position in the provost’s office, according to a university news release.
His new salary has not been set, Fidler said.
In addition to working with OU-COM’s faculty early retirement program, Brose will serve as senior executive director for health services and special assistant to the executive vice president and provost, according to the release.
Brose’s announcement comes months after OU-COM was awarded a $105 million gift from the Osteopathic Heritage Foundations. The money, which officials estimated would be awarded during a period of more than 10 years, will help create a regional extension campus in Columbus and diabetes and neuromusculoskeletal centers in Athens.
“I don’t see there would be any changes in the plans that would affect the regional extension campus or the Osteopathic Heritage Foundations gift,” Fidler said.
Brose will continue to oversee the work on the regional extension campus from his position in the provost’s office.
“This is a good time for (Brose) personally to move into the faculty early retirement program,” Fidler said. “There are a lot of internal things with the central Ohio extension campus that need leadership.”
Several administrators have announced in the past year that they would retire or leave, including Ben Ogles, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Greg Shepherd, dean of the Scripps College of Communication; Rathindra Bose, dean of the Graduate College; Donna Burgraff, dean of OU’s Chillicothe campus; and Dan Evans, executive dean of regional higher education.
Watts said in an interview last year that some turnover in administrators is not unusual at a university.
“People are coming and going from the university all the time,” she said.
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