Kathleen Enz Finken Named Provost at Cal Poly

Kathleen Enz Finken has been appointed provost at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. She has been serving as provost, vice chancellor for academic affairs, and professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Her new appointment is effective in February 2012.

Before becoming provost at the University of Wisconsin-La Cross in 2008, Dr. Enz Finken was dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at the Moorhead campus of Minnesota State University.

Enz Finken holds bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in art history from Rutgers University.

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