David Malik Receives Two New Appointments

Associate Executive Vice President of Indiana University, David J. Malik

INDIANAPOLIS – IUPUI Chancellor and Executive Vice President of Indiana University Charles R. Bantz has appointed David J. Malik Associate Executive Vice President of Indiana University. In that role, Malik will work directly with Bantz in the areas of promotion and tenure and policy development for IUPUI and Indiana University’s regional campuses.

With the administrative restructuring of Indiana University by the Board of Trustees in January 2006, Bantz acquired additional responsibilities as Executive Vice President (EVP). In his role as Associate Executive Vice President, Malik will work with Bantz to provide leadership for various academic matters for seven of the IU campuses. Among the areas to be addressed are strategic planning, academic personnel processes (including promotion and tenure), state policy, and coordination of special projects such as Mission Differentiation.

Professor Malik received his B.S. in Chemistry from California State University, Hayward in 1968, an M.S. in Applied Mathematics a year later, and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, San Diego in 1976. After a brief Visiting Assistant Professorship at UCSD and a post-doctoral stay at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, he joined IUPUI in 1980 as an assistant professor. From 1990 to 2000, he served as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry. He was a Founding Faculty member of University College in 1997.

In addition to his new duties as Associate Executive Vice President, Malik, Chancellor’s Professor and Professor of Chemistry, is the new director of the Faculty Colloquium for Excellence in Teaching (FACET). FACET was established as an Indiana University Presidential Initiative in 1989 to promote and sustain teaching excellence. Today FACET has over 460 full-time faculty members who are chosen through an annual campus and statewide peer review process.

With over a decade of FACET membership, Malik has served as the IUPUI campus FACET liaison and on the FACET Steering Committee. Professor Malik has received numerous awards including the American Chemical Society Service Award, P.A. Mack Charter Fellow, Indiana University President's Award, Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and a Teaching Excellence Award from the University of California at San Diego.

FACET recognizes the effective leadership efforts of Sharon Hamilton and Robert Orr, who have served as co-directors of FACET for the past five years. Under their leadership, FACET has produced a video titled “What’s a Teacher For?”, published three editions of Quick Hits, and completed a DVD on the Peer Review of Teaching.