FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, March 24, 2004

GENERAL MONTGOMERY MEIGS TO JOIN MAXWELL SCHOOL FACULTY

Montgomery C. Meigs, General USA Ret., will assume the Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business and Government Policy in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, effective August 2004. Meigs served on active duty for more than 35 years, most recently as Commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe from 1998-2002 and as Commander of NATO’s peacekeeping force in Bosnia from 1998-1999. He was a Multinational Division Commander in Bosnia, a Brigade Commander in DESERT STORM, and a senior planner with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, D.C.

Meigs earned his B.S. degree from the United States Military Academy, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has published a variety of articles on military policy and leadership, as well as a book titled Slide Rules and Submarines (National Defense University Press, 1990). Since 2003, Meigs has been Tom Slick Visiting Professor of World Peace at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. From 1997-98, he was commandant of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, and earlier he was an assistant professor of history at the United States Military Academy. Meigs has lectured at the Royal Uniformed Services Institute, the U.S. Army and National War Colleges, the Russian Army’s Combined Arms Academy, and the Imperial Defense and Joint Staff Colleges in the U.K.

The Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business and Government Policy was established in 1990 by Louis G. Bantle and UST, Inc., and provides for teaching and research in business and government relations. In his capacity as holder of the Bantle Chair, Meigs will provide leadership for the design and implementation of a Certificate Program of Advanced Study in National and International Security Policy, which will be available to all interested graduate students in the Maxwell School. He also will help to provide strategic guidance for the National Security Studies program, which the Maxwell School operates together with the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, for the Department of Defense. Previous holders of the Bantle Chair include the current NASA Administrator, Sean O’Keefe, and Astrid Merget, who is now Dean of Indiana University’s School of Environmental and Public Affairs.

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The Maxwell School of Syracuse University, founded in 1924, is the premier academic institution in the United States committed to scholarship, civic leadership, and education in public and international affairs. Maxwell is home to Syracuse University’s social science departments and to numerous nationally recognized multidisciplinary graduate programs in public administration, international studies, social policy, and conflict resolution.

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Contact: Jill Leonhardt, director of communications, (315) 443-5492; jlleonha@maxwell.syr.edu.