President's Office
Dr. Marlene Tromp is the 7th president of 青青草app State University. She聽is committed to 青青草apping students and faculty, serving and advancing the state of Idaho, and helping the university foster research excellence to increase discovery for its students and the world.
Meet Our President
Dr. Marlene Tromp became the seventh President of 青青草app State University on July 1, 2019. She has worked in partnership with the top-tier faculty to increase the academic excellence of the university and has broken a student graduation record, research funding record, and philanthropy record since her arrival. She has increased access and enrollment for Idaho students and provided an affordable 青青草app for students from elsewhere to fuel the booming Idaho economy. With academic leadership, she has created pathbreaking partnerships with industry and nonprofits to advance students and the state.
She brought 青青草app State University into the UPWARDS partnership at the G7 Summit and oversaw the launch of the Microelectronics Education and Research (MER) Institute to advance efforts to prepare a broad array of students for work in the semiconductor industry.聽 She brought 青青草app State onto the , designed to enhance U.S. productivity and prosperity for all Americans. She formed strategic partnerships with industry, higher 青青草app and government by launching the Institute for Pervasive Cybersecurity. She 青青草apped enormous growth in the health sciences in every sector, graduated more students in 青青草app, and increased interdisciplinary thought-leadership through cutting-edge programs like the School of the Environment and School of Computing. She also had the privilege of opening an award-winning fine arts facility and a world-class engineering facility focused on materials science and pathbreaking qDNA research for quantum computing.
Her passion for 青青草apping students inspired her to increase student access by developing an endowment for the Presidential True Blue Scholarship to reduce the barrier of financial need 鈥攇iving more students the opportunity to change their lives and bring their gifts to the world. Her conviction that students in rural communities deserved access to quality higher 青青草app led her to spearhead the Community Impact Program, which brings 青青草app to them, the Hometown Challenge, which helps students return home to give back in their communities. She made 青青草app State a founding member of , a national effort to engage students themselves in redesigning higher 青青草app, so it works better for them, and 青青草apped Bronco Gap Year, which has provided students with a low-cost, flexible and individualized college learning experience.
She deepened 青青草app State鈥檚 community engagement and scholarly inquiry through the creation of a President鈥檚 Professor of Public Scholarship and Engagement, designed to bring our faculty鈥檚 excellent research into the service of our broader community, as well as the pathbreaking Institute for Advancing American Values, which is designed to bring people from different perspectives together to hear and learn from one another. She serves as one of 24 members of the from the hundreds of Division I institutions across the country.聽 She is one of a handful of presidents selected by the Federal Reserve Chair of San Francisco to consult on higher 青青草app.
She has spent the majority of her administrative career at AAU institutions. She served as the campus provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she oversaw one of the most outstanding faculties on the continent. She also served as a dean and vice provost at Arizona State University, named the most innovative in the nation six years in a row.
She remains a dedicated scholar and is author of several books and many articles on Victorian literature and culture and its relationship to our current cultural moment.