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March 17, 2023

Northwest Missouri State University on Thursday formally launched Dr. Lance Tatum as its subsequent president.

Tatum, who serves as senior vice chancellor for academic affairs and main academic officer at Troy University in Troy, Alabama, is joined by his wife, Jill, and begins his tenure at Northwest on June 1.

“I can explain to you it is a constructive sign when you depart an interview wanting the task much more than you did when you arrived, and that was definitely true for Jill and I in our pay a visit to to Maryville,” Tatum reported in remarks he offered to a group filling the J.W. Jones University student Union Boardroom. “I could not be much more grateful to all the associates of the Board of Regents and the Northwest university neighborhood for trusting me with the profound obligation of primary this fantastic university.”

This month’s announcement is the end result of a lookup course of action the University started very last June. Regents selected Tatum immediately after collecting enter from Northwest stakeholders, such as a University research committee. Tatum was amid four finalists who frequented the Maryville campus in February for a sequence of interviews with stakeholder teams and community message boards.

“He provides with him significant practical experience and accomplishment in strategic arranging, pupil recruitment and retention, community involvement, classroom training, and fundraising, just to name a several,” stated John Moore, who is the chair of the Board of Regents and served as chair of the Presidential Lookup Committee. “When talking to other people about him as component of our due diligence system, there have been two reliable themes that arrived via from each and every individual we talked to. Number one particular, that he is genuine. What you see and what you listen to from him, you get. And amount two, he’s a servant leader. It is not about him, it is about the group. My own observation is that he is a hugely capable, can-do individual with a massive dose of humility blended in.”

John Moore, right, launched Dr. Lance Tatum as Northwest’s up coming president. (Photos by Todd Weddle/Northwest Missouri State University)

Indicating he is humbled and honored for the opportunity to lead to Northwest, Tatum thanked his spouse and children – which features Jill and their two children, Thad and Zoe – and mentors for their transformative impacts on his lifestyle.

“I commenced my job in administration due to the fact I preferred to have a bigger effect and a broader impact on learners, much like the mentors I outlined have impacted and affected my lifestyle,” Tatum claimed. “Over my profession and at every administrative prevent, I have been equipped to widen my impact and deepen my influence on the life of those people close to me.”

Tatum reflected on his function at Troy College, indicating its success “was accomplished by an inclusive and clear course of action with school, college students, workers and colleagues” and that he intends to strategy his function at Northwest likewise.

“My purpose is to establish upon the good foundation that exists here at Northwest,” Tatum stated. “I have loved my lifestyle at Troy. I have experienced heaps of motives to keep and minimal press to go away, which tells you the strength of the pull that Jill and I felt drawing us to Northwest. It was mind-boggling to listen to how the folks love this university and the pride that they showed in staying component of it. For someone who is drawn to prospects to serve other folks and to assist persons thrive, it was impossible to resist the invitation to sign up for this wonderful college.”

Dr. Clarence Green, left, joins Dr. Lance Tatum for discussion with Northwest local community members Thursday.

Through his remarks, Moore also thanked members of the Presidential Search Committee and Dr. Clarence Inexperienced, who served as interim president at Northwest in the course of the research course of action. Moore famous Environmentally friendly is the to start with particular person of coloration to lead Northwest.

“He held the ship sailing correct when the waters were being choppy,” Moore said of Inexperienced. “This particular person is the definition of an unselfish chief. He epitomizes our culture and all that’s superior about Northwest working day in and working day out.”

In addition to Thursday’s introductory conference, the Tatums attended the afternoon Board of Regents session and that evening’s “Voices in Green” live performance at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Missouri, which highlighted performances by Northwest’s Jazz Ensemble, Tower Choir and Wind Symphony.

For a lot more facts about Northwest’s presidential search, take a look at www.nwmissouri.edu/presidentsearch/.

About Dr. Lance Tatum

Tatum has served in his present-day part at Troy University considering the fact that January 2019 though keeping the rank of professor in its Sorrell College of Business—School of Hospitality, Activity and Tourism Management. He is responsible for all facets of the university’s tutorial mission, like strategic preparing, budgeting, supervising, and reviewing plans of instruction, analysis and continuing instruction. He oversees 32 academic departments housed in five educational schools in addition to the supervision of leaders overseeing undergraduate and to start with-yr research, the graduate college, tutorial guidance, three non-standard campuses, libraries, registrar, institutional exploration, arranging and success, and sponsored programs.

Tatum joined Troy College as a school member in 1998 and went on to provide as vice chancellor for its campus in Montgomery, Alabama vice chancellor for its Worldwide Campus dean of the Higher education of Education and learning and chairperson of the Department of Kinesiology and Health and fitness Marketing as properly as a College Athletics Consultant. Throughout his career, he has held school positions in sport and health and fitness administration at Troy University, and he began his tutorial vocation as an assistant professor of actual physical education at Gordon School in Barnesville, Georgia.

He acquired a Ph.D. in activity management at Florida Point out College. He has a Grasp of Science in Education degree in foundations of training and a Bachelor of Science degree in actual physical education and learning, each from Troy University.