Edgar E Roulhac

Edgar E. Roulhac was appointed vice provost for academic services of The Johns Hopkins University in 1993. He is responsible for coordinating institutional policy regarding the planning and review of new or substantially changed full- and part-time academic programs, and in this role serves as university liaison to the Maryland Independent College and University Association, Maryland Higher Education Commission, Washington, D.C., Education Licensure Commission, Middle States Commission on Higher Education, and various other regional higher education accreditation agencies. He also has institutional oversight responsibility in the growing field of part-time education. About half of the university's 19,000 degree students are enrolled on a part-time basis. He also represents the Provost's Office in academic planning involving the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, Johns Hopkins Population Center, K-12 education and campus diversity.

Roulhac came to Johns Hopkins in 1978 as assistant dean, and later served as associate dean, in what was then known as the School of Hygiene and Public Health. He became assistant provost in 1986. In 1987, he opened the university's Montgomery County Center campus with 200 students in just three graduate degree programs. Roulhac built and directed the Montgomery County Center, and later expanded the Washington Center, which opened initially in 1992, into comprehensive mini-campuses offering a total of 17 degrees at Montgomery County and 12 in Washington, D.C. Four Johns Hopkins divisions, the schools of Arts and Sciences, Professional Studies in Business and Education, Engineering, and Public Health, now offer graduate courses and degree programs to adult professionals at the two locations. He also served as interim vice president for human resources from November 1994 to October 1995.

He is a 1969 graduate of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where he received a master's degree in community health education in 1970 and a doctorate in higher education administration in 1974. He earned a master's degree in public health with a focus on health planning and administration from Johns Hopkins in 1975.

Deeply involved in issues that affect the quality of life in the Greater Baltimore region, Roulhac has served as a member of boards and committees of the Central Maryland Health Systems Agency, Provident Hospital, the Maryland Society for Medical Research, the Dunbar-Hopkins Health Partnership, and the Elijah Cummings and Jerold C. Hoffberger Youth Program in Israel, and as a member of the Maryland 7th Congressional District Military Service Academy Review Board. He is also a member of the Phi Delta Kappa, Delta Omega and Kappa Delta Pi honorary societies, an active fellow of the Society for Public Health Education, and a Henry M. Minton Fellow of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity. Roulhac is also active with the Maryland Association of Higher Education, the American Public Health Association, and the Leadership Alliance, a national consortium of leading research and teaching academic institutions, including minority-serving institutions, dedicated to improving the participation of underrepresented students in graduate studies and Ph.D. programs, and ultimately, in research professions in the academic, public and private sectors.

[Updated January 2006]