Long-Time Professor Arnold Vedlitz Continues To Serve University

Dr. Arnold Vedlitz has been an integral part of the Bush School of Government and Public Service since the idea was first put forward in the early 1990s. As associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts (and also a professor in the Department of Political Science), Vedlitz was a key member of the team that prepared the University’s bid for the Bush Presidential Library and Museum. In addition to his teaching and administrative duties, Vedlitz also headed the College’s Center for Public Leadership Studies (CPLS). When the Bush School became a reality in 1996 – initially under the College of Liberal Arts – he was asked to move the Center to the School.

“In those early days, the School had no faculty per se, but ‘borrowed’ faculty from the Departments of Political Science, Economics and other disciplines,” Vedlitz said. He was one of the School’s first “official” faculty members, moving his academic tenure from political science to the Bush School. Soon after the first class graduated in 1997, the Bush School became an independent college; and in 2000, the CPLS evolved into the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy (ISTPP). Vedlitz was named executive associate dean under Dean Robert Gates, a position he held until 2004.

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