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News Release
BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY NEWS RELEASE / October 30, 2007
Boise State University Names New Lecture Hall in Honor of
Former Provost Daryl Jones
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Boise State University honored former provost Daryl Jones Monday by naming a
lecture hall for him in the newly opened Interactive Learning Center. Many
of Jones’ colleagues gathered for the naming ceremony in Room 118, now the
Daryl E. Jones Lecture Hall.
Jones joined Boise State in 1986 as dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences. He was appointed interim executive vice president in 1991 and
ultimately served as provost and vice president for academic affairs from
1994-2004.
“I am pleased to dedicate our newest lecture hall in grateful recognition of
his vision and leadership in guiding Boise State from an undergraduate
teaching institution to a comprehensive university dedicated to excellence
in undergraduate and graduate education, research and scholarship,” said
Boise State President Bob Kustra.
As dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Jones established himself as a
visionary, leading the college in the reformulation of its mission and
lowering the teaching loads of incoming faculty while requiring as a
condition for tenure that they disseminate their research or creative
activity in a peer-reviewed fashion, either through publications, juried
shows, or exhibits.
As provost, Jones continued to apply his vision on an institutional scale,
developing graduate programming and continuing to encourage and support the
research agenda. Under Jones’ leadership, the institution evolved from an
undergraduate to a master’s level institution.
“While I believe in the power of leadership, I want to make clear that in
this business there are no individual heroes,” Jones said during the
ceremony. “For every achievement attributed to me, there are other people —
unacknowledged champions — who deserve the credit. I accept this honor today
on their behalf.
Jones also said he was particularly proud to have his name associated with
Boise State’s new Interactive Learning Center, a building dedicated to
teaching and learning.
“Much of my career has been a reflection of my conviction that teaching and
research are indivisible, two facets of an open exchange whereby teachers
become students and students become teachers in an ongoing, interactive
process of mutual discovery,” he said. “This building ... seems the ideal
image of that process.”
Jones was responsible for many firsts at Boise State. They include:
• The first faculty recognition awards for teaching, research, and service
• Hiring the university’s first woman dean
• Boise State’s first international development project — the creation of
Vietnam’s first market-oriented Business School
• Approval and establishment of more than a dozen baccalaureate programs, a
score of master’s programs, and the university’s first two doctoral
programs, the Ed. D. in Education and the Ph. D. in Geophysics
Jones also initiated Boise State’s federal lobbying effort, which has since
provided millions of dollars of federal funding for research, buildings and
equipment, and campus transportation. He helped start the dual enrollment
program for high school students, the undergraduate research program, the
service-learning program, and authored the strategic plans and other
planning documents that guided Boise State’s development for more than a
decade. His efforts led to the approval and establishment of a number of
academic departments and he was instrumental in the approval and
establishment of the College of Engineering and in acquiring and developing
the West Campus.
Jones continues to contribute to Boise State today by providing leadership
in the Interdisciplinary Studies Program.
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Media Contact: Sherry Squires, University Communications, (208)
426-1563, ssquires@boisestate.edu
For the 10th time in the last 11 years, Boise State University has set an
all-time record for Idaho higher education institutions with an enrollment
of 19,540 – an overall increase of 3.5 percent. A record freshman class of
2,280 students is also the most academically talented group ever to enter
Boise State, including 12 National Merit finalists.
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