NEW JMU COLLEGE NAMES HEAD

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, January 7, 1992                   TAG: 9201070118
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: STATE 
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NEW JMU COLLEGE NAMES HEAD
Lyle C. Wilcox, who has been both a college president and a senior official with the U.S. Department of Energy, was named Monday to head James Madison University's new College of Integrated Science and Technology.
JMU President Ronald Carrier said development of the new college is "vital to the young people of Virginia and to higher education in general."
The new college "will be a boost in the long-term to the state economy and particularly to the local economy, which is expected to be among the strongest in Virginia in the near future," Carrier said in a news release. "It is essential that we prepare now for the future of our institution and for the future of Virginia."
The new college fits the model for innovative approaches to education that was called for in the 1989 report of the Commission on the University of the 21st Century.
The college will help meet part of the demand that will be created by some 25,000 additional students in Virginia's system of higher education early in the next century.
Wilcox, who will become provost of the new college in mid-January, is president and chief executive officer of Strategic Knowledge Systems, an Oklahoma company he founded last year.
He previously has been president of the University of Southern Colorado and deputy assistant secretary of the Department of Energy.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB