California Educator To Take WSU Post

Sun., Jan. 12, 1997

From Staff And Wire Reports

A provost at the University of California at Santa Barbara has been named provost and academic vice president at Washington State University, officials said Friday.

Gretchen M. Bataille, currently provost of the College of Letters and Science at UCSB, will assume her post at WSU July 1, President Sam Smith announced.

Bataille, 52, will be paid $148,000 a year, plus $15,000 in deferred compensation from private funds, the university said.

Bataille replaces Tom George, who resigned in May to become chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. She was among 95 candidates for the job.

Bataille, a scholar in the field of Native American literature, has been at UCSB since 1994. She was associate dean for academic personnel at Arizona State University for four years after four years as chairman of the school’s Department of English.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s degree in English education from California Polytechnic State Institute at San Luis Obisbo. Her doctoral degree is from Drake University.

She is author or co-author of 10 books. , DataTimes

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