To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff &
           All Undergrad Students & All Grad Students <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "UI Board of Trustees" <uibot@uillinois.edu>

Reply-To: uibot@uillinois.edu
 Subject: Search for 18th U of I President Concludes

TO: Members of the University of Illinois Family
FROM: Christopher G. Kennedy, Chair of the Board of Trustees

It's a pleasure to share with you that the search for a new president of 
the University of Illinois has concluded. I'm delighted to announce that 
the Board's choice to become the 18th president of the University of 
Illinois is Dr. Michael J. Hogan, president of the University of 
Connecticut.  

The Search Committee to Assist the Board in the Selection of a President 
and the Board of Trustees sought a seasoned, highly capable leader, a 
person with experience in working productively with an incredibly broad 
range of academic disciplines and programs, a person with success in 
gaining support from public and private sources, one with sophistication 
in dealing with external publics, a person with the highest ethical 
standards, and one capable of working with the many challenges and 
opportunities the University of Illinois presents.

Dr. Hogan exemplifies all of these qualities. He is a rare find and a top-
flight leader capable of moving the University forward.  

Search Process

The search process that led us to Dr. Hogan was extensive and 
comprehensive. I commend Pam Strobel, a University of Illinois Trustee, 
alumna, and a former Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative 
Officer of Exelon, who chaired the search committee. Pam deserves special 
recognition for her hard work and dedication to the search process, as 
does Dr. May Berenbaum, professor of entomology, College of Liberal Arts 
and Sciences, Urbana, who served as vice chair of the committee. Without 
the skill and the hard work of the search committee members and the long 
hours they invested in reviewing records of prospective candidates and 
interviewing semifinalists, the quest would not have been nearly as 
smooth or successful.  

Seasoned Leader 

Michael Hogan's entire career has prepared him to lead a major public 
university. He has held nearly every management and executive position in 
academia, steadily rising through the ranks on the merits of his 
scholarship, commitment and leadership.

It should be noted that Dr. Hogan is no stranger to the Midwest. While he 
spent the early years of his career as a faculty member at Stony Brook 
University, the University of Texas and Miami University, he quickly 
moved to a professorship at The Ohio State University, later serving as 
chair of the department of history, then dean of the college of 
humanities, and finally as executive dean of the college of arts and 
sciences. 

In 2004, Dr. Hogan returned to the institution that conferred upon him 
his Master's and Ph.D. degrees, the University of Iowa, to serve as 
executive vice president and provost and as the F. Wendell Miller 
Professor of History.  

Distinguished Scholar

Dr. Hogan is a well recognized scholar and specialist in the history of 
American Diplomacy and American Foreign Relations. He is the author or 
editor of nine books, including: Informal Entente: The Private Structure 
of Cooperation in Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy, 1918-1928 
(University of Missouri, 1977); The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and 
the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-1952 (Cambridge University 
Press), which is widely considered the definitive work concerning the 
reconstruction of Western Europe following World War II, and for which 
Dr. Hogan received the Stuart L. Bernath Book Award of the Society for 
Historians of American Foreign Relations, the George Louis Beer Prize of 
the American Historical Association, and the Quincy Wright Prize of the 
International Studies Association; A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and 
the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954 (Cambridge 
University Press, 1998); and Paths to Power; The Historiography of 
American Foreign Relations to 1941 (Cambridge University Press, 2000).  

Dr. Hogan has been a fellow of the Harry S. Truman Library Institute and 
the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and has served as 
Louis Martin Sears Distinguished Professor of History at Purdue 
University. His scholarship has been recognized by the Society for 
Historians of American Foreign Relations, which awarded him the Bernath 
Lecture Prize in 1984, and The Ohio State University, which presented him 
its Distinguished Scholar Award in 1990, the highest award for scholarly 
distinction conferred on members of the faculty.   

Breadth of Experience

During his tenure at the University of Iowa and at the University of 
Connecticut, Dr. Hogan gained a reputation for being a hands-on 
administrator, always receptive to dialogue with students. During his 
first week as President of UConn, Dr. Hogan joined a student field trip 
with a group of 44 honors students. As Melissa Bruen, a field trip 
participant and former editor-in-chief of the student newspaper put 
it: "He definitely made an effort...to talk to students individually, 
just to say, 'I'm here, you can talk to me'...he was very open and honest 
about things." 

Dr. Hogan publishes a blog, PresRelease, on the university's website as a 
way to communicate with faculty and students. On a more whimsical note, 
Hogan demonstrated his courage (and perhaps his humility) by taking to 
the dance floor in a "Dancing with the Stars" style event hosted by the 
Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts at UConn. 

As president of the University of Connecticut, Dr. Hogan has worked 
closely with the Connecticut state legislature, the Governor's office and 
the federal government to secure funding for a variety of crucial 
projects. Dr. Hogan has been an active friend and fundraiser, as well as 
a leader and supporter of UConn's $600 million campaign, "Our University, 
Our Moment." 

Dr. Hogan's most recent and perhaps most significant achievement is the 
new UConn Health Network. The $352 million plan includes a new patient 
care tower and renovations to the university's hospital. 

Throughout his career, Michael Hogan has distinguished himself as one of 
the most intelligent, personable and passionate university administrators 
in the country. His honesty, integrity and perseverance have made him a 
legend at every university he has served.    

I hope you will join me in welcoming President and Mrs. Hogan to the 
University of Illinois family. 
This mailing approved by:
The Office of the President

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