Subject: News release announcing Linda Brady's appointment

From: "Carol Rydbom"

Please share the University of North CarolinaÕs news release with others. Thanks, Phil Weiler Phil Weiler, Senior Director Public and Media Relations pweiler@uoregon.edu 541-346-3873 (office) 541-968-3767 (cell)

June 12, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Brady Named Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro

CHAPEL HILL, NC Ð Linda P. Brady, senior vice president and provost at the University of Oregon, has been elected chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro by the Board of Governors of the multi-campus University of North Carolina. UNC President Erskine Bowles placed BradyÕs name in nomination today (June 12) during a special meeting of the board. Brady, 60, will assume her new duties August 1. She succeeds Pat Sullivan, who announced in December that she would retire this summer after 13 years in the post.

In recommending Brady to the Board of Governors, Bowles said: ÒOver the past 25 years, Linda Brady has accumulated a wealth of leadership experience at highly respected public, urban universities, as well as in the halls of Washington. At each step along the way, she has proven herself to be an energetic leader who promotes collaboration, creative problem-solving, and real-life commitment to scholarship, research, and public service. She is no stranger to North Carolina or this UniversityÑhaving served for five years as dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at North Carolina State UniversityÑso we consider this a homecoming of sorts. With her broad experience in higher education and federal government, her demonstrated integrity and sound judgment, and her profound understanding of the global marketplace in which our students must compete, Linda Brady will be a forceful and effective leader for UNC Greensboro. We are delighted to bring her back to North Carolina.Ó

One of only 62 research institutions in the U.S. and Canada selected for membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities, the University of Oregon is a public university that enrolls more than 20,000 students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It attracts more than $86 million annually for research and sponsored programs and offers programs in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Robert D. Clark Honors College, as well as professional programs in architecture and allied arts, business, education, journalism, law, and music and dance. As senior vice president and provost, Brady is the universityÕs chief academic and operating officer. In that role, she has been responsible for all aspects of UOÕs academic mission, including academic affairs, research and graduate studies, student affairs, institutional equity and diversity, international affairs, finance and administration, and information services.

A native of New York City and the first member of her family to attend college, Brady graduated from Douglass College, the womenÕs division of Rutgers University, in 1969 with a degree in political science. She received a masterÕs degree in the field from Rutgers (1970) and a doctorate in political science from Ohio State University (1974). She began her academic career as an assistant professor of political science at Vanderbilt University in 1973 and joined the faculty at Goucher College in Maryland three years later.

From 1978 to 1985, Brady held several positions in the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Defense. Among other roles, she served as a political analyst in the State DepartmentÕs Office of Disarmament and Arms Control and as special assistant for mutual and balanced force reductions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. She later served as a senior fellow in international security and arms control at the Carter Center of Emory University (1986-87) and as a distinguished professor of national security at the U.S. Military Academy (1991-92).

From 1993 to 2001, Brady led the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she was also a professor of international affairs. She joined North Carolina State University in 2001 as Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of political science, and over the next five years was credited with building the stature and visibility of the College, launching a number of new graduate degree programs, and significantly increasing external support for the humanities and social sciences at NC State. She left North Carolina in 2006 to become the chief academic and operating officer at the University of Oregon.

Brady has authored or co-edited three books and numerous book chapters and scholarly articles in the fields of American foreign policy, international negotiation, and arms control. Among other professional organizations, she is a member of the International Studies Association, the American Political Science Association, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the Council on Foreign Relations. A past recipient of the Georgia Tech School of Social Sciences Teaching Award, she has earned the Superior Honor Award from the U.S. Department of State and is a two-time recipient of the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal from the Department of the Army. She was an American Council on Education Fellow in 1997-98, serving her fellowship year at the University of Iowa under the mentorship of President Mary Sue Coleman and provost Jon Whitmore.

Brady is married to Gustav ÒSteveÓ Heyer, a retired Army officer. She has two adult stepsons and three grandchildren: Stephen Heyer and his wife, Suzanne, live in Richmond, VA, with their children Alex, Megan, and Andrew Casey, while Michael Heyer lives in Chicago, IL.

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Founded in 1891, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro is a diverse, student-centered research university, linking the Triad and North Carolina to the world through learning, discovery and service. The university is organized into a College of Arts & Sciences and six professional schools, with more than 1,000 faculty members teaching in programs that offer 86 undergraduate, 56 masterÕs and 25 doctoral degrees. Among its high-impact projects are the Gateway University Research Park and the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, which are being created in partnership with North Carolina A&T State University.

The University of North Carolina The oldest public university in the nation, the University of North Carolina enrolls more than 209,000 students and encompasses all 16 of North CarolinaÕs public institutions that grant baccalaureate degrees, as well as the NC School of Science and Mathematics, the nationÕs first public residential high school for gifted students. UNC campuses support a broad array of distinguished liberal-arts programs, two medical schools and one teaching hospital, two law schools, a veterinary school, a school of pharmacy, 11 nursing programs, 15 schools of education, three schools of engineering, and a specialized school for performing artists. The UNC Center for Public Television, with its 11-station statewide broadcast network, is also under the University umbrella. ###

NOTE TO EDITORS: An electronic version of this news releases and a photo of Dr. Brady can be found on the University of North Carolina website at www.northcarolina.edu. Photo URL: http://www.northcarolina.edu/docs/images/pres/news/pr2008/Brady_Linda_press.jpg

UNC GREENSBORO CONTACT: Steve Gilliam, Assistant Vice Chancellor and Chief University Spokesman, (336) 334-5619 or steve_gilliam@uncg.edu .