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Candidate is former leader of Indiana U.

Cougar News Staff

Sharon Stephens Brehm, former chancellor of Indiana University Bloomington and the second of two candidates added to UH's provost search earlier this month, will discuss her career and field questions from the campus community during an open forum this afternoon.

Brehm, who earned her bachelor's degree from Duke University and completed her master's in social relations at Harvard University and a doctorate in clinical psychology at Duke, was chancellor of IU and vice president of academic affairs for two and a half years. She stepped down at the beginning of this year in the midst of an administrative restructuring at IU and now serves as a senior adviser to IU President Adam Herbert, focusing on the status of women in higher education.

The Roanoke, Va., native came to IU from Ohio University, where she was provost. At Ohio, Brehm increased undergraduate scholarships by 266 percent and championed the hiring of underrepresented faculty; Ohio University President Robert Glidden called her "a superb provost."

When she took the position in Indiana, Brehm focused on academic excellence, campus diversity and university partnerships.

"We learn from our differences," Brehm told the Indiana Daily Student in 2001. "This is a obviously a multicultural world, and we need to learn to interact with individuals of different races and experiences."

In Ohio, Brehm was elected chairwoman of the Ohio Learning Network, a consortium of 55 public and private universities that helped develop partnerships among higher education, public schools, businesses and communities.

The campus community is welcome to attend Brehm's forum at 4 p.m. today in the University Hilton's Shamrock Room. The hour-long forum will begin with remarks from Brehm and conclude with her taking questions from the audience.
 

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