Curriculum Vitae, Thomas J. Hochstettler

Professional History

Lewis & Clark College

• President

International University Bremen

• Vice President for Academic Affairs, 2002 – 2004.
• Chief Academic Officer and Visiting Professor of History, 1999 – 2002.

Rice University

• Associate Provost and Adjunct Lecturer in History, 1996 – 2002.

University of Houston System

• Director of Academic Planning, 1992 – 1996.

Bowdoin College

• Dean for Planning and General Administration, Lecturer in History, 1987 – 1992.
• Acting Vice President for Finance and Treasurer, 1990 – 1991.

Stanford University

• Senior Associate and Staff Economist, Office of Financial Planning, 1986 – 1987.
• Financial Analyst, Budget Manager, Assistant Director of Finance, Stanford University Hospital, 1980 – 1986.
• Teaching and Research Fellow, Department of History, 1978 – 1980.

Education

• Ph.D. (History), University of Michigan, 1980.
  Dissertation: Kurmainz: Administrative Polity and Political Change in the Electorate of Mainz, 1647 - 1729. James Allen Vann, III, Chair.
• M.A. (History), University of Michigan, 1970.
• B.A. (History), Earlham College, 1969.
• Stanford University Management Development Program 1985 – 1986.
• Study at School of Business Executive Education Program (Finance), University of California-Berkeley, San Francisco, 1982 – 1984.
• Julius-Maximilian-Universität, Würzburg, Germany, 1976.
• Goethe Institute, Lüneburg, Germany, 1975.

Teaching Fields

• Early-modern German and European social and economic history.
• The history of war and society in the modern world.
• The history of migration and cultural integration.
• Education reform in the post-welfare state.
• The effects of technological change on society and culture.

Professional Accomplishments

International University Bremen, 1999 – 2004

• Founding chief academic officer at the first private research university to be established in Germany. IUB is a fully accredited, comprehensive, English-language university that draws its students, faculty, and staff from over sixty countries and provides a liberal-arts curriculum, comprising fourteen traditional and transdisciplinary undergraduate majors and twenty-eight professional master’s and doctoral degree programs.
• Responsible for the development of IUB’s academic and student life programs, growing from a staff of two in 1999 to an institution today with three schools, two inter-disciplinary research centers, a student body of 600 (projected to grow to 1200 by 2007), 80 regular faculty members, and 50 academic support and student services staff. IUB’s annual operating budget in 2004 is €25 million. Current research grants exceed €10 million. The university is capitalized at €120 million, of which €90 million is in the endowment. The Board of Governors is a made up of prominent international business and education leaders. Honorary "Schirmherrn" of IUB are the distinguished diplomats James A. Baker, III and Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and the Chair of the Deutsche Bank, Hilmar Kopper.
• Chair of Academic Council, the senior administrative, policy making, and budgeting organ of IUB. Responsible for developing and implementing degree requirements, examination and grading policies, honor code, student life policies, and rules of faculty governance. Academic Council develops and presents the annual operating and capital budgets to the Board of Governors of the university.
• Responsible for planning and implementing highly selective, international, need-blind student admission and merit-based scholarship procedures.
• Responsible for establishing the Information Resource Center as a progressive, converged information management hub combining traditional library functions with infrastructure support for instruction, research, and administration.
• Responsible for establishing the residential college system and student life programming, including extra- and co-curricular activities and athletics.
• Represent IUB to public and private constituencies in the United States and Germany for institutional development and foundation support. Serve as the principal English-language advocate for IUB to external audiences.
• Line authority for Academic Affairs and Student Affairs.

Rice University 1996 - 2002

• Chair of the Rice-Bremen planning committee for the establishment of a new English-language, private, liberal arts, research university in Germany, International University Bremen.
• Member of President’s Administrative Staff and of the Deans Council with liaison and management responsibilities, on behalf of the President and Provost, for various task forces, search committees, standing faculty committees, and planning groups.
• Member, University Strategic Planning Committee, 1996 – 98; co-drafted the university's five-year strategic implementation plan for Rice’s first ever capital campaign ($500 million).
• Managed periodic operational peer review process of the eight Schools within the University in establishing strategic direction, assessing overall quality, and reviewing degree programs for rigor, timeliness, and adherence to institutional goals.
• Member of the Steering Committee on Freshman Seminars to implement an innovative program for the integration of research into undergraduate education, funded by the Hewlett Foundation.
• Member and staff writer, the Library Strategic Planning Committee.
• Chair, Provost’s task force for process reengineering and information system replacement for student affairs (admission, financial aid, and registrar).
• Chair, the Web Steering Committee. Established dynamic, web-based faculty activities reporting to the Provost and President.
• Member and staff writer, committee on reaffirming and reformulating admission and aid policies in response to adverse federal court ruling (Hopwood) affecting affirmative action.
• Administered institutional grants and faculty matching funds and all start-up funds for new faculty.
• Established and chaired faculty committee on planning and administering the upgrading and renovation of classroom facilities.
• Editor of the General Announcements, the Rice University catalog.
• Institutional liaison with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and other accrediting agencies.
• Line responsibility for the Office of Institutional Research.
• Member, Department of History.

University of Houston System 1992 - 1996

• Chief academic planning officer for the four-institution urban university system serving the greater Houston metropolitan area.
• Developed comprehensive internal strategic plans coordinating all new degree programs and other initiatives for the four universities. Developed a state-of-the-art dynamic systems model for predicting and responding to the educational needs of Houston’s rapidly expanding and socially diverse population.
• Served on task force that drafted the Texas State Planning White Paper for Higher Education, which served as the higher education roadmap in Texas for the legislative sessions 1992 – 1996.
• Coordinated System-wide academic initiatives for legislative approval of formula funding.
• Chaired system-wide Institutional Research Council.

Bowdoin College 1987 - 1992

• Chief planning officer for a premier liberal arts institution. Developed and coordinated strategic plans for academic programs, student life, and new facilities.
• Taught history. Specialty field was war and society in the modern world.
• Chief information officer, responsible for the development of on-campus academic and administrative computing facilities and services. Expanded computing network to the entire campus for academic and administrative computing. Introduced networked microcomputing and work-stations in administrative workflow.
• Served two years as acting Vice President for Finance and Treasurer. Substantially eliminated structural budget deficit through attrition, benefit reform, cost management initiatives. Established operational review of administrative and academic support costs. Reduced debt service and reporting requirements by refinancing and streamlining institutional debt for bricks and mortar. Staff to Committee on Investments.
• Line officer for the Office of Events, including management of the Bowdoin-Julliard Summer Music Festival.
• Member, statewide library automation steering committee for integrating college and university libraries in the State of Maine.
• Represented the President and College to external constituencies, alumni, donor groups, and the corporate community.

Stanford University 1978 - 1987

• Senior staff officer in financial administration supporting decision-making in tuition setting, cost and productivity analysis, IT optimization, quality assurance, and institutional strategic planning.
• Directed financial analysis and the operating and capital budgeting processes in the 600-bed teaching and research hospital, with responsibility for cost accounting, productivity assessment, and for third-party (insurance) revenue recovery. Total operating budget of $250 million; total capital budget of $25 million.
• Automated the budgeting system. Converted operating budget process to IBM PC base in 1982.
• Developed and managed Stanford Cost Report for Medicare, MediCal, and private insurer reimbursement, achieving for Stanford the second highest reimbursement rate of all medical facilities nationwide.
• Taught in the History 1-2-3 program, precursor to the Stanford World Studies Program, required of all first-year students at Stanford University.

Honors and Awards

• Woodrow Wilson National Fellow, 1969 - 1970
• Horace H. Rackham Doctoral Fellow, University of Michigan 1973 - 1974
• Teaching Fellow, History, University of Michigan, 1974 - 1977
• Stipendiat, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Universität Würzburg, 1975 - 1976
• Teaching and Research Fellow, Stanford University, 1978 - 1980

Representative Publications and Presentations

• "Elite Universities for Germany: Why Imposing the American Model Won't Work," forthcoming in The Chronicle of Higher Education, April, 2004.
• "Elite-Universität: Pro und Contra," with Dr. Harro Zimmermann, Bremer Lehrer Zeitung, March-April, 2004, p. 28.
• "A Philosophy for the Baccalaureate," delivered to the Joint Meeting of the Academic Leadership, Universität Bremen and International University Bremen, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany, February, 2004. http://www.iu-bremen. de/affairs/34625.
• "Reflections on the Nature and Meaning of Migration," invited presentation to the United States Fulbright Fellows, Bremen, Germany, September 2002.
• "Ego-Bericht," Rotary Club, Bremen, Germany, September 2002. http://www.iu-bremen. de/affairs/30286/ index.html.
• "Some Lessons in Radical Higher Education Reform in Germany," invited presentation at the Universities of the Future, sponsored by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, the Fulbright Commission, and the Hochschul-Rektoren-Konferenz, Bonn, Germany, June, 2002. Dokumentation und Materialien, DAAD, Volume 46, pp. 115 – 123. http://www.iu-bremen. de/affairs/34918.
• "Forming the International Learning Society for the Twenty-first Century," invited presentation at the Lerntec Conference, Karlsruhe, Germany, September, 2001. http://www.iu-bremen. de/affairs/30302/ index.html.
• "Der amerikanische Vorteil: Vielfalt in der akademischen Landschaft," invited presentation at the Podiumsgespräch on Higher Education Reform in Germany, sponsored by the Consul General of the United States of America, Warburg Institute, Hamburg, Germany, July, 2001.
• "Bildungsreform in Deutschland," invited presentation at the Darmstadter Runde, Universität Kassel, Germany, April, 2001.
• "Erfahrungen in zwei Hochshulssystemen - USA und Deutschland," invited presentation at the Conference on Educational Reform, Hochschule Bremen, Germany, April, 2001.
• "We Built the House Around Us: Simultaneous Process Reengineering and System Replacement at Rice University," with Barry P. McFarland, et. al., presented at EDUCAUSE, Seattle, Washington, December, 1998. http://www.educause. edu/ir/library/html/ cnc9860/cnc9860. html.
• "A Dynamic Systems Higher Education Enrolment Management Model for Houston," invited presentation at the Symposium on Systems Thinking in Higher Education, Boston, Massachusetts, June, 1995.
• "Liberal Learning and the Technology Revolution," invited presentation at the Annenburg Symposium on Technology in Higher Education, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, March, 1989.
• "Toward a Service Environment in Higher Education," presented at the Conference of the New England Regional Computing Consortium, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, June, 1988.
• "The Guilds of Mainz: Corporate Adaptability in the Old Reich," presented at the Missouri Valley Historical Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, March, 1980.
• "The Imperial Knights in Post-Westphalian Mainz," A Case Study of Corporatism in the Old Reich," Central European History, Emory University, Volume XI, Number 2, June, 1978.
• "The Imperial Knights and the Government of Early Modern Mainz," invited presentation at the joint meeting of the American Historical Association and the International Commission for the Study of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions, Washington, D.C., December, 1976.
• Presentations on topics in early modern German and European military history and in German-U.S. educational cooperation and European post-secondary education reform to civic groups and educators in the U.S. and Germany.

Professional Affiliations

• American Association of Higher Education.
• American Historical Association.
• German Studies Association.
• European Council of Independent Schools.

Other Affiliations

• Rotary Club of Bremen, Germany. Member, Executive Committee and Youth Exchange Officer, Rotary Club of Bremen.
• Moderator, First Congregational Church, Houston, Texas, 1995 – 1997.
• Rotary Club of Houston, 1993 – 1995.
• New England Regional Computing Consortium Board of Trustees, 1987 – 1992.
• Midcoast Maine Red Cross Board of Directors, 1988 – 1991.

Personal

Born in Bryan, Ohio. Graduated from Huntington High School, Huntington, Indiana. Married since 1975 to Marcia Della Glas; three children: William Cameron, Taylor David, and Benjamin Joseph Glas-Hochstettler (born 1985, 1987, and 1992, respectively).

Languages

English - native language.
German – fluent.
French - good in speech, writing.
Dutch - good reading.

Diversions

Chamber music, piano playing; gardening; cross-training; Tuscany; Brittany.

Updated: May 2004