re: What in the world is going on with the President search? What is McMaster doing?

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John Applegate

Applegate is a graduate of the Harvard School of Law and has worked at Indiana University since 1998, according to his LinkedIn account.

For more than 20 years, he was a professor at Indiana’s law school. Since 2013, he served as the university’s president for academic affairs, where he managed the state’s academic programs.

Earlier in his career, Applegate worked at the University of Cincinnati’s School of Law.

Robert Caslen Jr.
Caslen serves as senior counsel to the president at the University of Central Florida, the largest university in that state. He took up the position at the beginning of this year.

Prior to that, Caslen worked as superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point from 2013 to 2018, according to his LinkedIn account.

Caslen had a 43-year military career in the Army, according to his online resume. That includes a stint as commanding general of an infantry division in Iraq from 2008 to 2010. He served another two years in Iraq managing security in the country from 2011 to 2013.

William Tate
Tate is the dean of the graduate school and vice provost for graduate education at Washington University in St. Louis.

He has a doctorate degree in philosophy from the University of Maryland, a master’s degree in teaching from the University of Texas at Dallas and a master’s degree in psychiatric epidemiology from Washington University in St. Louis, according to his online resume.

Tate has held a number of positions at Washington University at St. Louis prior to becoming the dean of the graduate school. That includes service as a professor for African and African American Studies and the chair of the Department of Education Arts and Sciences.

He also worked as a professor at the University of Wisconsin and Texas Christian University.

Joseph Walsh
A graduate of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a doctorate in medical engineering, Walsh is vice president of research at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.

He lists eight patents on his curriculum vitae, including one for a “method for welding tissue.”

Since completing his Ph.D. in 1988, Walsh has spent his career at Northwestern, where he has worked as a professor of biomedical engineering and senior associate dean in the school of engineering.

He has also served on the boards of the Fermi National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory, and he was a member of the Secretary of Navy’s Naval Research Advisory Committee.

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