Mark Emmert

Mark Emmert
5th Executive Director of the National Collegiate Athletic Association
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 November 2010
Preceded by	Myles Brand
30th President of University of Washington
In office June 2004 – 1 October 2010
Preceded by	Lee L. Huntsman
Succeeded by	Phyllis Wise as Interim President
Personal details
Born	December 16, 1952 (1952-12-16) (age 58) Fife, Washington
Spouse(s)	DeLaine Emmert
Alma mater	University of Washington (B.A.) Syracuse University (Ph.D)
Profession	Academic Administrator

Mark A. Emmert, Ph.D., (born December 16, 1952) was named president of the NCAA on April 27, 2010. He is the fifth CEO of the NCAA; he assumed his duties on 1 November 2010. Emmert was previously the 30th president of the University of Washington, his alma mater, taking office in June 2004, becoming the first alumnus in 48 years to lead the UW. He left Washington on 1 October 2010 having announced his departure for the NCAA Executive Directorship on 27 April 2010.

Before Emmert became president of the University of Washington, he was chancellor at Louisiana State University and held faculty and administration positions at the University of Connecticut, Montana State University, and University of Colorado.

Tenure at the University of Washington

In 2006, the UW established the Husky Promise, a guarantee that tuition and fees will be covered for lower-income students from Washington state who are accepted to the UW. The UW also has increased access for Washington students by expanding UW Bothell and UW Tacoma to four-year programs in the fall of 2006. The UW is now looking to add a fourth campus north of Seattle to better serve the residents of North Puget Sound. The UW Seattle campus is expanding with the purchase of the Safeco property in the University District, adding about 500,000 square feet (46,000 m²) of building space.

Under Emmert's tenure, the UW received more than $1 billion in grant and contract research funding for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2007. This marked the first time the UW received more than $1 billion in funding for sponsored research in a single year. The UW has been the top public university in federal research funding since 1974 and among the top five universities, public and private, in federal funding since 1969. In recent years, it has been second only to The Johns Hopkins University.

In 2006, under Emmert's presidency, the university created the Department of Global Health and in the spring of 2007, they launched the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Emmert is also amongst the first 20 to sign the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) and is an active member of its Steering Committee.^[1]

In August 2007, Emmert announced that the UW would open an office in Beijing to lay the groundwork for expanding the university's presence in China (see article). Emmert made the announcement during a campus visit by Zhou Wenzhong, ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the United States.

In January 2007, the fundraising goal for Campaign UW: Creating Futures was increased to $2.5 billion after the campaign reached its initial $2 billion goal 17 months ahead of schedule (see article). When the campaign ended on June 30, 2008, the total raised was more than $2.6 billion. The UW has received a number of transformational gifts during Emmert's presidency, including a gift in fall of 2007 from the Foster Family Foundation leading to the business school at the Seattle campus being named the Michael G. Foster School of Business.

Emmert has been courted by the University of Wisconsin, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Cornell University, the University of California System, and the Louisiana State University System over the past several years. In February 2008, Emmert turned down an offer from Vanderbilt University that might have made him the most highly paid college leader in the nation.^[2] Nevertheless, he was the second most highly compensated public university president in the nation, at $888,000 for 2007-2008.^[3] In addition, he received $200,000 compensation for serving on the board of Expeditors International and $140,000 for serving on the board of Weyerhaeuser, giving him a total annual compensation of over $1.2 million.^[4]

NCAA Presidency

On 27 April 2010 Emmert was named President of the NCAA in Indianapolis, Indiana. He assumed his duties on 1 November 2010.

Education

• Fife High School
• Green River Community College
• BA, 1975, University of Washington
• MPA, 1976, and Ph.D., 1983 Maxwell School, Syracuse University

Personal

Mark and DeLaine Emmert have been married for more than 30 years and have two children, Stephen and Jennifer. Emmert's base salary is $620,000 per year, but his total University of Washington compensation package is $906,500 annually, which made him the second highest earning public university president in the United States behind Ohio State's Gordon Gee.^[5]

References

1. ^ http://www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org/index.php
2. ^ Perry, Nick; Miletich, Steve (February 28, 2008), "UW's president turns down offer from Vanderbilt", The Seattle Times, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2004247834_emmert28m.html 
3. ^ Wiedeman, Reeves (November 21, 2008), For a Raise, Try Looking in the Evergreen State.Chronicle of Higher Education, http://chronicle.com 
4. ^ Perry, Nick (November 17, 2008) (^{[dead link]}), UW, WSU presidents among highest paid in countryThe Seattle Times, The Seattle Times, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008399686_collegesalary17m.htmlhtml 
5. ^ "UW president gets new perks, but no raise". The Seattle Times. 2009-09-04. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009807305_apwauwpresidentialsalary.html?syndication=rss. Retrieved 2009-09-04. 

External links

• President Emmert's home page
• President Emmert's blog
• President Emmert's Curriculum Vitae
• 2007 President's Annual Address to the UW Community
• April 2006 Rotary Club speech during which he called for "achieving excellence in everything we do"
• "The Homecoming," Columns alumni magazine article about Mark Emmert becoming UW president (see article)

Academic offices
Preceded by Lee L. Huntsman	President of the University of Washington 2004–present	Succeeded by Phyllis M. Wise (acting)

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Name	Emmert, Mark
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Date of birth	December 16, 1952
Place of birth	Fife, Washington
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