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Former provost Kermit Hall
dies while swimming in S.C.
Former NC State provost Kermit Hall died Sunday, Aug. 13, while swimming off the South Carolina coast. He was 61.
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Hall served as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at NC State from July 1999 to November 2000. Hall’s tenure at NC State was marked by significant achievements in strengthening the promotion and tenure process, encouraging multidisciplinary collaborations across academic units, enhancing approaches to diversity, and incorporating technology into teaching and research.
“The news of former Provost Kermit Hall’s death comes as a shock to us all,” said Chancellor James Oblinger. “His dedication to higher education, students and scholarship was obvious to everyone. On behalf of everyone at NC State University, I express our sorrow over his loss.”
Hall most recently served as president of the University at Albany. He took office in February 2005 after serving as president and professor of history at Utah State University for four years.
Prior to his tenure at NC State, he held academic and administrative positions at Ohio State University, the University of Tulsa, the University of Florida, Wayne State University and Vanderbilt University.
Hall was considered a pre-eminent scholar of American constitutional, legal and judicial history. The Akron, Ohio, native was an expert on judicial organization, having written extensively on the development of both American federal and state courts and judiciaries.
He was one of five Americans appointed by President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the Senate to the Assassination Records Review Board in 1992 to review and release to the public documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. For his commitment to openness in government, he received the James Madison Award from the American Library Association in 1999.
He was a member of the boards of the American Council on Education, the National Association of State University and Land Grant Colleges, the International Student Exchange Program, the NCAA Presidential Task Force on the Future of Intercollegiate Athletics, and the Research Foundation of the State University of New York.
Hall held fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Bar Foundation and the Fulbright Education Foundation.
Hall received his Ph.D. in 1972 from the University of Minnesota. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Akron, a master’s degree from Syracuse University and a master of studies in law degree from Yale Law School.
Posted August 18, 2006
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