Michael J. Hogan | |
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18th President of the University of Illinois System | |
In office July 1, 2010 – July 1, 2012 |
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Preceded by | B. Joseph White |
Succeeded by | Robert Easter |
14th President of the University of Connecticut | |
In office September 14, 2007 – June 30, 2010 |
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Preceded by | Philip E. Austin |
Succeeded by | Susan Herbst |
Personal details | |
Born | 1943 Waterloo, Iowa, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Northern Iowa (B.A.) University of Iowa (M.A.) University of Iowa (Ph.D.) |
Profession | Academic Administrator, Professor |
Michael J. Hogan (born 1943) is an American academic who has served in the administrations or on the faculty of many American universities, wrote or edited numerous books, contributed as an adviser to the U. S. Department of State and several documentaries. Currently he is a distinguished professor of history at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
Born and raised in Waterloo, Iowa, Hogan earned his B.A. degree at the University of Northern Iowa, where he majored in English with minors in history and classics; his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees were conferred by the University of Iowa.
Hogan’s first university faculty positions were at Stony Brook University and at the University of Texas, Austin. He then taught at Miami University for nine years before accepting what would turn out to be his last full-time teaching position at Ohio State University, in 1986. In 1993, Hogan was elevated to be the chair of the Department of History at Ohio State, which position he held until he moved into the administrative side of academia.
In 1999, Hogan was made dean of the College of Humanities at Ohio State, and in 2001, he was given an additional position as executive dean of the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences. During his tenure in that position, the position of executive dean evolved into a separate free-standing office with oversight of five colleges and forty-one departments.
In 2003, Hogan accepted a position as the Executive Vice President and Provost of The University of Iowa. While in Iowa City, he also held the position of F. Wendell Miller Professor of History,
On September 14, 2007,Hogan became the 14th president of the University of Connecticut, succeeding Philip Austin.
On May 11, 2010, Hogan was selected to succeed B. Joseph White as president of the University of Illinois System, and he resigned his position as President of the University of Connecticut, effective June 30.