Chancellor Miller Recommended for CCSU President Post
Released: December 6, 2004
A Connecticut State University System Board of Trustees search committee has unanimously recommended that John W. Miller, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, be appointed as the 12th president of Central Connecticut State University.
The full board of trustees is expected to accept the recommendation and appoint Miller during a regularly scheduled meeting set for 10 a.m. Friday on the CCSU campus in New Britain.
Miller would succeed interim President Robert Aebersold, who has been serving since the retirement of Richard Judd in July. Aebersold will continue to serve as interim president until Miller takes office in July.
Miller, 57, has been chancellor and a professor at UW-Whitewater since 1999. The university boasts more than 10,600 students and has a staff of more than 1,000. CCSU has more than 12,000 students and employs more than 1,300 full- and part-time faculty and staff.
Miller began his career in higher education in 1974 at Wichita State University as an assistant professor in teacher education. He then rose through the ranks at Wichita over the next 12 years, serving as an associate professor, professor and then associate dean. In 1986, he became a professor of education and dean of the School of Education at Georgia Southern University. Seven years later, he left the university to serve as professor and dean of the School of Education at Florida State University. He remained at FSU until 1999, when he became chancellor of UW-Whitewater.
A native of Chicago, Miller attended Ohio University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1969. He then earned a master’s degree in education at Northern Illinois University in 1972. Two years later, Miller received a Ph.D. in education, linguistics and research design at Purdue University.
He is the founding president of the Wisconsin Campus Compact, part of a national coalition of college and university presidents committed to civic purpose. Miller serves as chair of the Board of Governors of The Renaissance Group, an affiliation of 35 universities that educate one in every nine teachers in the U.S. He also served as chair of the Chancellors Committee for the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Committee from 2002-2004. In 2003, Miller was the recipient of the National Pacesetter Award, which is presented annually by the National Academic Advising Association to higher education chief executive officers who exemplify the greatest commitment to academic advising and advocacy for advisers and students.
An expert in teacher education, specifically literacy education, Miller has written more than 55 peer reviewed papers and 42 articles in national and international publications. He has also written 10 book chapters and three major monographs disseminated by international associations. Additionally, Miller is also the author of America’s Most Literate Cities, a national ranking website.
- N & P Staff,npa@uww.edu
