Dr martin jischke biography
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Scarpino: you went back to the University of Oklahoma?
Jischke: Right.
Scarpino: You held at least three administrative positions&#;
Jischke: Right.
Scarpino: &#;and you had obviously decided while you were a Fellow that that&#;s the direction that you wanted your career to take.
Jischke: Exactly.
Scarpino: You were a director and professor of the School of Aerospace, Mechanical, and Nuclear Engineering from &#;77 to &#; Is that the equivalent of a department chair?
Jischke: Yes. I was head of a department, I think we had twenty-two faculty and five or six hundred students.
Scarpino: How did you exercise leaders as a director or a department chair?
Jischke: These are some themes that have followed all the way through my time as an academic administrator or leader&#;strategic thinking. I actually developed a strategic plan as a department head and I did as a dean and as a president. Strategic thinking, trying to think longer term, asking how can yo