Dr. Judy Hample

Dr. Judy G. Hample is chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. As chief executive officer for the System since August of 2001, Hample reports to the Board of Governors, a twenty-member appointed public governing body. Hample earned a B.A. degree in communication and secondary education/French from David Lipscomb University (Nashville, Tennessee; 1969) and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in communication from The Ohio State University (1974).

Prior to Pennsylvania, Hample served the State University System of Florida Board of Regents as vice chancellor for planning, budgeting and policy analysis (1998-2000), executive vice chancellor (1999-2000) and chancellor (2001). Her higher education system experience is complemented by more than twenty years of university campus experience as a faculty member and academic administrator. Hample's first faculty appointment was at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Her first administrative appointments were at Western Illinois University as a department division director and later assistant dean for the College of Arts and Sciences. Hample later served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emporia State University (Kansas; 1983-1986), dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana State University (1986-1993) and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Toledo (Ohio; 1993-1998). In all of her campus administrative appointments, Hample also held tenured professorships.

Hample has been active in many professional organizations, including the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC), the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO), the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), and the American Council on Education (ACE) for which she currently serves as a board member on the ACE Commission on Women in Higher Education. For more than two decades, Hample also contributed actively to the work of national and regional associations in the field of communication. She served many times as a consultant-evaluator for the North Central Accreditation Association and as a public consultant-evaluator for the American Bar Association. In her administrative roles, Hample has been appointed or elected to several higher education statewide committees such as her service as board member and chair of OhioLINK, the State of Ohio's automated library database system. She has also contributed to public service activities through efforts such as serving as a trustee for the WGTE Public Broadcasting Network in Ohio.

She has many academic publications and presentations to her credit. Hample has published scholarly articles and presented research findings in the disciplines of history and communication; the work has focused on the communication of protest and dissent and the relationship between history and rhetoric. She served as editor for Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, and co-edited three volumes of Teaching in the Middle Ages. In addition, she has been invited to make numerous presentations before state, regional and national associations and organizations on topics including the following: leadership and management, accountability, performance budgeting, equity and diversity, strategic planning, general education, defining institutional missions, and achieving excellence.