THOMAS J. HOCHSTETTLER
pilgrim@rice.edu
PROFESSIONAL:
1996 - present
Associate Provost, 1998 - present
Adjunct Lecturer in History, from January, 1999
Assistant Provost, 1996-1998
Rice University
Houston, Texas 77005
Senior administrative associate to the Provost of a highly selective, premier research university. On behalf of the Provost, manage a wide range of projects and operations with regard to academic administration, admission and student records management, faculty affairs, peer review, and academic support services. Responsibilities include the following items: coordinate processes of institutional accreditation and compliance; edit and publish the university catalog, the General Announcements; supervise the Office of Institutional Research; manage long-term process reengineering for admission, financial aid, and student records operations; administer institutional funds relative to faculty hiring and grant matching; administer the Provost's contingency and other funds; as needed, coordinate external partnerships and consortial arrangements with other institutions. Member of the President's Staff and the Deans Council. At the request of the President and Provost, work with the Board and other constituencies on matters of policy development, strategic planning, and communication.
1992 - 1996
Director of Planning and Analysis
University of Houston System
Houston, Texas 77002
Reporting to the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, served as manager of planning and policy analysis operation for a major urban university system, serving fifty-thousand students through four independent universities, including the flagship research institution, the University of Houston. Staff to the system executive group and the Board of Regents in coordinating long-range facilities, financial, and programmatic planning. System administration liaison with institutional planning officers at the component universities. Responsible for coordination and integration of long-range programmatic planning with $200 million annual operating and capital budgets and with facilities planning on four campuses. Managed development and compilation of state-mandated strategic plans in conjunction with legislative appropriations requests. Oversaw development and maintenance of computerized planning models incorporating financial, demographic, and program data and for conducting sensitivity analysis in support of strategic policy decision-making.
1987 - 1992
Acting Treasurer, 1989-91
Dean for Planning and General Administration, 1987-92
Lecturer in History, 1987-92
Bowdoin College
Brunswick, Maine 04011
Senior administrative and planning officer at a highly selective liberal arts college. Responsible for coordinating the development of administrative long-range programmatic and facilities plans and for supporting planning activities of Board committees. With other senior officers, served as a member of the college's senior policy-making committee and of the President's strategic planning task force. Line officer for Institutional Research Office, Budget Office, Computing Center, and various auxiliary enterprises. As acting treasurer, responsible for directing $40 million operating budget, management of plant assets worth over $200 million and invested endowment in excess of $160 million. Line administrator for business operations. Inaugurated operational review process to enhance institutional effectiveness. Coordinated refinancing of the College's bonded indebtedness to ease cash flow and consolidate debt payments. Oversaw reform of personnel administration and reduced benefits costs by establishing innovative self-insured managed-care health plan. Taught modern European social and military history.
1978 - 1987
Senior Associate and Staff Economist to the Vice President, 1986-87
Manager of Budgeting and Assistant Director of Finance, 1983-86
Hospital Financial Analyst, 1980-83
Lecturer in History, 1978-80
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94301
Member of planning and research staff, reporting to the Senior Vice President. Provided budgeting and operational consulting to various administrative operations and the office of the Treasurer. Developed productivity measures for enhancing efficiency within plan, service, and auxiliary units. Staffed University task force on telecommunications planning, implementation,and review. Staff on the reorganization of computing services, resulting in the establishment of a new vice-presidency for information resources. Responsible for monitoring economic trends and advising senior staff on policies related to long-range portfolio allocation and on budget and planning assumptions. As Manager of Budgeting and Financial Analyst at Stanford University Hospital, managed processes for development and implementation of operating budget of $250 million and capital budgets of $20 million. Developed a flexible budgeting system, based on required staffing levels in patient-care units and auxiliary services. Responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining computer data bases in support of the budgeting and financial reporting functions. Prepared annual cost report for external audit and for recovery of indirect costs from federal, state, and private agencies. As Teaching and Research Fellow in History, taught European history in the core curriculum sequence. Assisted in the development of core curriculum in European culture, a precursor and prototype of the current Stanford World Cultures Program. Lectured in modern German social and political history.
1974 - 77
Lecturer in History, 1977
Graduate Student Assistant, 1974-75, 1976-77
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
Appointed to a lectureship in history while still a graduate student. Taught early modern European political history. Served as a Teaching Assistant in introductory Western Civilization courses.
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. (History), University of Michigan, 1980
M.A. (History), University of Michigan, 1970
B.A. (History), Earlham College, 1969
Graduate study in Financial Administration, University of California-Berkeley, 1981-82
Stanford University Management Development Program, 1985-86
SCHOLARLY HONORS AND AWARDS:
Woodrow Wilson National Fellow
Horace H. Rackham Doctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1973-7
Teaching Fellow, History, University of Michigan, 1974-75, 1976-77
Stipendiat of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, 1975-76
Teaching and Research Fellow, Stanford University, 1978-80
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:
"We Built the House Around Us: Simultaneous Process Reengineering and System Replacement at Rice University," with Barry P. McFarland, Andrea Martin, and Joseph A. Watters, Jr., presented to CAUSE, Seattle, Washington, 1998.
"Turning a University into a Learning Organization," with William Aulet, presented to the Pegasus Conference on Learning Organizations, Boston, Massachusetts, September, 1995.
"System Dynamics Modeling in Higher Education: The University of Houston System Enrollment Demand Model," with Glenn Friedman and Lorne Kuffel, presented to the Texas Association for Institutional Research, San Antonio, Texas, March, 1995.
"Emerging Technologies--What Works," with Arthur Ashton et al., presented to the Society for College and University Planning, San Francisco, Calirfornia, March, 1994.
Panelist, "Teaching and Technology: The Impact of Unlimited Information Access on Classroom Teaching," Annenberg Symposium, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, February, 1989.
"Toward a Service Environment in Undergraduate Computing," paper presented to the Symposium of the New England Regional Computing Program, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, June, 1988.
"The Guilds of Mainz: Institutional Adaptability in the Old Reich," paper presented to the Missouri Valley Historical Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, March, 1980.
"The Imperial Knights in Post-Westphalian Mainz: A Case Study of Corporatism in the Old Reich," Central European History, Spring, 1978.
"The Imperial Knights in Early Modern Mainz," presented to a joint session of the American Historical Association and the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions, Washington, D.C., December, 1976.
Facilitator of planning seminars, budget training sessions, and institutional research methods seminars at Stanford, Bowdoin, Houston, and Rice.
SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION AFFILIATIONS:
Member, American Association of Higher Education
Member, Association for Institutional Research, Texas Association for Institutional Research
Member, Society of College and University Planners
Former Trustee, New England Regional Computing Program (NERComP)
Member, First Presbyterian Church of Houston. Active in school and youth sports volunteer programs, Spring Branch Independent School District, Houston, Texas.
REFERENCES:
Available upon request.