Provost Russell Moore today announced he will be stepping down from his position as provost of the Boulder campus after 14 years of service in that role. Moore is CU Boulder’s longest serving provost and the longest continuously serving provost among the institutions in CU Boulder’s peer group, the Association of American Universities.
He will continue to serve in his role until Chancellor Justin Schwartz names a new provost following a national search.
“The timing of this move gives Chancellor Schwartz the opportunity to seek new academic leadership and shape the academic mission according to his goals for CU Boulder,” Moore said.
Moore said he will step away “with pride in and satisfaction with my record of accomplishment,” which he said includes “having the most diverse and talented academic affairs leadership team in the history of the campus, and building an academic culture forged in openness and transparency and carried out in a spirit of compassion, cooperation and concern, and enriched with a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.”
During Moore’s time as provost:
Chancellor Schwartz heralded Moore’s service.
“Russ Moore has led CU Boulder’s academic mission through a time of bold transition and redefinition,” Schwartz said. “What he has achieved is significant, and how he did it is even more so: by listening, committing to action, and anchoring the mission in our best values. On behalf of our entire campus community, we are grateful for Russ’s service and for all that he has achieved.”
There will be a national search for Moore’s successor, and the university will share more information on the search process in the coming days and weeks.
Moore was named provost by then Chancellor Philip DiStefano on Oct. 13, 2010, and had previously served as interim provost from July 1, 2010, until his permanent appointment. Prior to that, he was interim vice chancellor for research from May 2009 to June 2010.
Moore also served as associate vice chancellor for research (2006–09), as chair of kinesiology and applied physiology (now integrative physiology) from 1994 to 2001, and was an assistant professor (1984–86), associate professor (1993–96) and then full professor (1996–present) in that department.
Moore holds an adjunct professorship in medicine (cardiology) at the University of Colorado's Anschutz Medical Campus at the University of Colorado Denver. He also was an assistant and associate professor (1986–93) in the department of medicine and the department of cellular and molecular physiology at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He did postdoctoral work at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas (1981–84).