May 16, 2001
Contact: UW O Chancellor's Office, 424-0200
Dr. Keith T. Miller has been appointed to serve as Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Miller, who presently serves as the Dean of the College of Business Administration at Niagara University, assumes this appointment effective June 1, 2001.
“Dr. Miller is an exceptionally strong academic leader,” said Richard H. Wells, Chancellor, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. “His efforts in higher education have been marked by innovation and improvement in all of the prior positions he has held. We are pleased that he will be joining our community before the start of the next academic year.”
Dr. Miller replaces Vicki Lord Larson who served in the position from 1994 to 2000 and Dr. Donald Mocker who held the position on an interim basis during the 2000-01 academic year.
As Dean, Dr. Miller helped his College to achieve national accreditation. His efforts have also developed new academic programs and partnerships and dramatically improved the College’s reputation and status in a number of key dimensions. “This is a tremendous accomplishment,” said Chancellor Wells. “Dr. Miller has helped to strengthen and improve the breadth and depth of the educational offerings at every institution he has been associated with.” Wells also noted that Miller’s outreach efforts with external constituencies have also been “very effective and valuable.”
Before moving to Niagara University, Dr. Miller held faculty and administrative appointments at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey and at Quinnipiac College School of Business in Connecticut. During his 14 years in higher education, Dr. Miller has demonstrated leadership abilities in program development, formation of educational partnerships, fundraising, and academic program development. Dr. Miller’s teaching experience has been in such areas as management, human resources, labor relations, corporate communications, organizational development, operations management, and executive management education.
In addition to his academic work, Dr. Miller had nearly a decade of experience in business and industry, including work as an account executive with Procter and Gamble and various other positions in diverse sectors of the economy. His abilities and accomplishments in the areas of sales, training and marketing were demonstrated in these placements.
“It is not that common for an academic leader to have such strong credentials in the private sector,” Wells said. “Dr. Miller understands the speed and pace of business and I believe some of this awareness will be helpful as UW Oshkosh moves forward with new efforts to make our university more accessible to working men and women.”
With undergraduate, masters, and doctoral degrees from the University of Arizona, Dr. Miller’s scholarly efforts and publications have focused on various management issues that have been published in a variety of professional journals and publications. His professional efforts have included considerable international travel and exposure, with consultations in Beijing, Brussels, Heidelberg, Krakow, London, Paris, and Tokyo. An accomplished fund raiser, Dr. Miller has been actively involved in various community-based organizations in such sectors as health care, community service, scouting, education, intergovernmental collaboration and the arts.
Dr. Miller and his wife Nicolette and have two sons, Kameron and Kyle.