Garry Brodhead Named Associate Provost

A 30-year member of the Ithaca College faculty and, more recently, administration, has been named associate provost. Garry Brodhead, who has served as interim assistant provost and dean of graduate studies since 1996, will begin his new duties immediately.

"Garry has contributed greatly to the College as a faculty member and as a key member of the academic administration," says provost and vice president for academic affairs Jim Malek. "He brings to the position both meaningful experience and valued leadership."

Malek notes that the search process resulted not only in finding the best candidate for the job, but also in a reexamination of the Office of the Provost. "As a result," says Malek, "I plan to propose a significant restructuring of positions. Garry will continue to be responsible for all the things that have been part of the associate provost position, plus a number of other projects/areas that I intend to assign to him. He will also continue to serve as dean of graduate studies while we study our current configuration of positions and assignments in the Office of the Provost."

Among Brodhead's primary responsibilities will be assisting Provost Malek with academic planning and with giving direction to new faculty development programs.

A professor of music theory, Brodhead joined the School of Music faculty in 1970 and became chair of the Department of Music Theory, History, and Composition in 1976. He was named interim assistant provost and dean of graduate studies in 1996; in that position his duties included helping to implement community college articulations, working directly with faculty development, supervising the revision of the College catalogs, approving applications for graduate admission, and evaluating all graduate theses.

Brodhead holds Ph.D. and M.M. degrees from the University of Indiana, Bloomington, and a B.S. degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Ithaca College he taught in the music department and directed the bands for five years at Governor Mifflin High School in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He is a founding member of the Society for Music Theory and the Music Theory Society of New York State, and in 1988 was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities summer research grant to study qualitative time in music.