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Steinke to quit regent job
Ben Fornell - The Daily Iowan
Issue date: 10/3/07 Section: Metro
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Gary Steinke, the executive director of the state Board of Regents' staff, will leave the board on Nov. 1.
The Iowa Association of Private Colleges and Universities announced on Tuesday that Steinke will be named president on Jan. 1, 2008.
Steinke has been a central figure behind the regents in the debate over arming campus police and in coordinating the security report and recommendation presented at the Sept. 18 regents' meeting.
Steinke is drafting a "comprehensive security policy" that, he says, he will try to deliver before his departure, at the October meeting of the regents.
Steinke has been executive director of the board since 2005, and he was with the regents during the oft-criticized search for a new UI president. He said these controversies did not affect his decision to leave.
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"I'm a private-college person," Steinke said, a graduate of Loras College in Dubuque and Drake University, where he earned a master's degree in political science. "I've always had a great affinity for private colleges."
Both public and private colleges have a role in Iowa's university community, he said.
Steinke - who is paid $149, 802 per year in his regents' job - said that a salary increase was a factor in his decision, but he declined to elaborate.
"It's a great professional opportunity for me," he said.
Regent President Michael Gartner said Steinke would be difficult to replace.
"I'm saddened," he said. "I'm happy for him. He did an absolutely spectacular job for us."
Gartner noted that, though, that he did not feel the regents' business would be significantly delayed by the transition.
Steinke first came to the board in 2004 as the deputy executive director and chief public affairs officer. Prior to his employment with the regents, Steinke served as special assistant to the president and director of governmental relations at Iowa State University.
Before his position at ISU, Steinke worked as special assistant to former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad. He has also been employed by the Republican Caucus in the Iowa House of Representatives and the American Petroleum Council.
Steinke will replace John Hartung, who has held the private-college position for 23 years.
E-mail DI reporter Ben Fornell at:
bejamin-fornell@uiowa.edu
The Iowa Association of Private Colleges and Universities announced on Tuesday that Steinke will be named president on Jan. 1, 2008.
Steinke has been a central figure behind the regents in the debate over arming campus police and in coordinating the security report and recommendation presented at the Sept. 18 regents' meeting.
Steinke is drafting a "comprehensive security policy" that, he says, he will try to deliver before his departure, at the October meeting of the regents.
Steinke has been executive director of the board since 2005, and he was with the regents during the oft-criticized search for a new UI president. He said these controversies did not affect his decision to leave.
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"I'm a private-college person," Steinke said, a graduate of Loras College in Dubuque and Drake University, where he earned a master's degree in political science. "I've always had a great affinity for private colleges."
Both public and private colleges have a role in Iowa's university community, he said.
Steinke - who is paid $149, 802 per year in his regents' job - said that a salary increase was a factor in his decision, but he declined to elaborate.
"It's a great professional opportunity for me," he said.
Regent President Michael Gartner said Steinke would be difficult to replace.
"I'm saddened," he said. "I'm happy for him. He did an absolutely spectacular job for us."
Gartner noted that, though, that he did not feel the regents' business would be significantly delayed by the transition.
Steinke first came to the board in 2004 as the deputy executive director and chief public affairs officer. Prior to his employment with the regents, Steinke served as special assistant to the president and director of governmental relations at Iowa State University.
Before his position at ISU, Steinke worked as special assistant to former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad. He has also been employed by the Republican Caucus in the Iowa House of Representatives and the American Petroleum Council.
Steinke will replace John Hartung, who has held the private-college position for 23 years.
E-mail DI reporter Ben Fornell at:
bejamin-fornell@uiowa.edu
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