COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO — A physicist with more than thirty years experience as a leader in higher education is the new vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
Rogers W. Redding, 60, currently vice president for academic affairs and provost at Northern Kentucky University, was named to the CU-Colorado Springs position May 8. He will begin his new position July 1, pending approval by the CU Board of Regents.
CU-Colorado Springs Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak announced Redding’s appointment.
“Rogers Redding is a proven leader,” Shockley-Zalabak said. “His experiences in the greater Cincinnati metropolitan area, as well as his familiarity of the Pikes Peak Region, will be valuable additions to our campus.”
As vice chancellor for academic affairs at CU-Colorado Springs, Redding will be responsible for setting direction for the campus’ six colleges and approximately 500 faculty members who instruct the campus’ more than 7,400 students.
A Kentucky native, Redding was named dean of Northern Kentucky’s College of Arts and Sciences in 1994 where he was also a professor of physics. In 1999, he was named vice president for academic affairs and provost. Previously, he had a more than 20-year association with the University of North Texas, Denton. At North Texas, Redding was an assistant professor, associate professor, professor, department chair and associate dean for research and administration. He was a distinguished professor of physics at the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1989.
“The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is an outstanding university,” Redding said. “I am honored to join its faculty and leadership team and to assist in helping the university achieve its goals.”
As part of CU’s Vision 2010 plan, CU-Colorado Springs has its sights set on becoming America’s top regional comprehensive research university. In 2002, U.S. News and World Report, in its rankings of the nation’s top universities, called CU-Colorado Springs a “Best in the West.”
Redding wrote the textbook, “Exploring Physics: Concepts and Applications,” published in 1984 and is the author of more than 20 scholarly journal articles. He received grant funding from the National Science Foundation, Robert A. Welch Foundation and the American Chemical Society.
He earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Vanderbilt University and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Georgia Institute of Technology. Redding is married and has four adult children.
CU-Colorado Springs, located on Austin Bluffs Parkway in northeast Colorado Springs, is the fastest growing university in Colorado and one of the fastest growing universities in the nation. The university offers 25 bachelor’s degrees, 17 master’s and two doctoral degrees. The campus enrolls more than 7,400 students annually.