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MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES CANDIDATE VISITS IN ITS SEARCH FOR ITS 13TH CHANCELLOR
BUTTE, MT – The Montana Technological University search advisory committee announced today three candidates for the position of chancellor for the University. The three candidates in order of campus visits are Dr. Robert Marley, Julie Morman, and Dr. Mike Doyle.
Dr. Robert Marley will visit campus on December 3-4, 2024. A community reception will be held on December 4 at 5:00 pm at the Hotel Finlen. The full interview schedule can be found here.
Dr. Marley is the Robert B. Koplar Professor of Engineering Management at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (S&T). He has extensive experience in serving higher education, 36 years overall with 23 of these in a variety of leadership roles. These include two engineering deanships, a vice presidency in student success, and as provost. Areas in which he held specific leadership responsibility for include faculty and student affairs, college and support programs, research and sponsored programs, technology transfer, distance and on-line programs, libraries, enrollment management, registrar, financial aid, and even briefly DI athletics.
Marley holds a Ph.D inindustrial engineering from Wichita State University, where he was awarded the University’s highly selective Boeing Fellowship. His bachelor’s and master’sdegrees are also from Wichita State.
Julie Morman will visit campus on December 4-5, 2024. A community reception will be held on December 5 at 5:00 pm at the Hotel Finlen. The full interview schedule can be found here.
Julie Morman was raised in Deer Lodge, Montana, and graduated from Montana State University with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, with honors. She later received her master’s in business administration, with distinction, from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. Julie has 30 years of corporate leadership experience, combining technical and business acumen with deep operational background. Her breadth extends across a variety of industries, including chemical and medical product manufacturing, oil and gas exploration and production, natural resource development, federal construction, public utilities, pipeline construction and ownership, IT managed services, and tourism. She is experienced in developing and fostering organizations to align with ever-changing industry demands while maintaining strong ethics and responsible corporate values.
Dr. Michael Doyle will visit campus on December 5-6, 2024. A community reception will be held on December 6 at 5:00 pm at the Hotel Finlen. The full interview schedule can be found here.
Dr. Doyle is the vice president for research, and professor of biology, at New Mexico Tech. He pioneered the creation of fundamental technologies that underlie such revolutionary breakthroughs as spatial biology, the cloud, blockchain/cryptocurrency systems, and mobile intelligent assistants. Dr. Doyle received his Ph.D from the Department of Cell & Structural Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While at UCSF Medical Center, in 1993, Dr. Doyle led a research team that developed the fundamental web technologies which enabled web browsers for the first time to act as platforms for fully-interactive embedded applications, in the process pioneering web technologies such as streaming media and cloud computing. To assist the University of California in commercializing the related patents, Dr. Doyle founded Eolas, where he was the architect of the company's research and development efforts.
For more details, please visit the chancellor search website at https://www.mtech.edu/chancellor-search/.
