Truman State University Names Its New Provost

P. Joan Poor was named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri, effective July 1, 2012. She will also be a professor of natural resources and environmental economics. Dr. Poor currently serves as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Bemidji State University in Minnesota. Prior to becoming dean at Bemidji State in 2010, she was a tenured associated professor of economics at Saint Mary’s College of Maryland.

Dr. Poor holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Manitoba. She earned a Ph.D. in natural resource/environmental economics at the University of Nebraska.