Dr. Anne Lippert - Vice President for Academic Affairs
Dr. Anne Lippert was born in Seattle, Wash., and lived in the Northwest for many years. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in French from the College of Holy Names in Oakland, Calif., in 1959; her Master of Arts in French from the University of Washington in 1963; and her doctorate in comparative literature from Indiana University in 1972. The title of her dissertation was "The Changing Role of Women in the Anglophone and Francophone Literature of West Africa.
Dr. Lippert taught for several years at Mt. Angel College in Mt. Angel, Ore., where she also served as academic dean from 1965-68. She also served as a resident assistant, associate head counselor and head counselor of Wright Quandrangle at Indiana University.
She began teaching French at Ohio Northern University in 1971 and also served as chair of the department of foreign languages. She was named an NEH Younger Humanist in 1973 for literary research in Nigeria. She served as senior Fulbright lecturer at the University of Oran in Algeria from 1973-75. She has also been a recipient of an American Academy of Poets award, an NEH grant to study power and class in Africa, and a Department of Education/ICIP study grant in East Africa. She has served on the National Screening Committee for IIE grants in Africa, has served as a reviewer of NEH proposals and has served as an expert on the western Sahara.
Dr. Lippert has published a number of articles on African writers and their literature, Algerian women, Sahrawi women, and the western Sahara conflict. She has also published poetry and book reviews in a number of journals.
Dr. Lippert was appointed to full professor in 1981. From 1980-83 she served as an assistant vice president for academic affairs. She returned to full-time teaching until 1988 when she was again appointed assistant vice president for academic affairs. In 1992 she was named vice president for academic affairs. Her areas of responsibility include, among others, oversight of the academic programs of the University, the academic support programs of the University, including academic computing and the library, athletics, institutional research, and academic personnel.