Excerpt from the Dayton Business Journal
Wright State University has selected a provisional successor for Provost Susan Edwards, who will leave her post Jan. 1 to become the university’s eighth president.
Douglas Leaman, dean of the College of Science and Mathematics, will become interim provost Jan. 1, the university announced Thursday in an email to students and staff.
Wright State plans to conduct a search in fall 2020 to select a permanent replacement.
Leaman has been with the university since 2016. Prior to joining Wright State, he spent 15 years as a professor of biological science at the University of Toledo. He also chaired the department for nearly seven years.
Before that, he was the scientific director at Gemini Technologies Inc., a Cleveland-based research facility; and held multiple roles with Cleveland Clinic, an academic medical center with four affiliated universities.
“The college strives to instill within its students an innovative spirit that encourages new, interdisciplinary ways of thinking to identify solutions to long-standing problems,” Edwards wrote in the email. “Dean Leaman believes in creating a learning environment that provides students with the opportunities and skills needed to succeed in the classroom and beyond.”
