Lance LeLoup, vice provost of international programs and Regents professor of political science, will retire from WSU on June 15, said Provost and Executive Vice President Warwick Bayly in an announcement June 3.
LeLoup came to WSU in 1996 to serve as chair of the Department of Political Science, a position he held until 2001. He also served as director of the Thomas Foley Institute and has been head of International Programs since 2005.
In 2007, LeLoup received the Aaron Wildavsky Lifetime Achievement Award for Research on Public Budgeting. He was recently promoted to Regents Professor, the first faculty member from political science to achieve that rank.
LeLoup has had a long and distinguished career in teaching and research, publishing more than a dozen books and 60 articles on American politics, budgeting, Congress and the presidency, and post-communist transformation in Central and Eastern Europe.
In his four years at International Programs, external funding for development projects around the world has tripled, the number of WSU students studying abroad has increased by 50 percent, international student enrollment has increased, international partnerships have been strengthened and expanded, and the campus and curriculum have become more internationalized. Under his leadership, the Office of Global Studies was created and the number of global studies minors has gone from under five to over 100.
“We appreciate his service and contributions to WSU, wish him the very best in retirement, and look forward to his continued contributions to WSU as a Regents Professor Emeritus,” Bayly said..
