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Aug. 2, 2006

Bouse joins MUW as vice president for institutional advancement

By Jill D. O’Bryant
  
COLUMBUS, Miss. -- Dr. Gary A. Bouse will join Mississippi University for Women’s administrative team Aug. 28, pending IHL Board approval, as vice president for institutional advancement.
   
“The VPIA position is an extremely important position to our university,” said MUW President Claudia A. Limbert. “I look forward to working with him as he assists MUW in the institutional advancement area. I am excited to have him join our outstanding MUW team.”
   
Previously employed at Indiana State University as vice president for university advancement, Bouse graduated from Indiana University with a doctorate in higher education administration. He earned his masters of agriculture in land economics and real estate and his bachelor of science in agricultural economics both from Texas A&M University.
   
In addition to Indiana State University, he also has worked in institutional advancement at University of Missouri, Sam Houston State University (Texas), Texas Tech University, Auburn University (Ala.), Oklahoma State University and Indiana University.
   
With more than 17 years experience in the institutional advancement area, he will represent MUW’s institutional advancement areas as a member of the President’s Cabinet.
   
The areas on campus that will directly report to Bouse are alumni relations, development/foundation, public affairs, sponsored programs and the web master.
   
“I am honored to have the opportunity to serve an institution with such historical significance to the state of Mississippi as Mississippi University for Women,” Bouse said.  I look forward to working with President Limbert, the leadership of the MUW Foundation, the outstanding faculty, staff and alumni of MUW and the Columbus community on advancing the institution as a leading university in the southeast.”
   
He said his goals will be to provide leadership to the division and institution through the planning and administering of a coordinated university-wide effort to strengthen ties with university constituents, providing effective communications to enhance the stature of MUW with external audiences and raising private funds to support the strategic initiatives of the university.
   
Bouse and his wife, Rebecca, have two children: Garrett, 14, and Heather, 8.

     
 
     
 
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