University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler to visit St. Cloud Tuesday, Nov. 1

University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler will make his first visit to St. Cloud Tuesday, Nov. 1.

While in St. Cloud, Kaler will meet with business leaders, visit the university’s St. Cloud Regional Extension Office, speak at the St. Cloud Rotary, meet with CentraCare leadership and meet with U of M residents in the St. Cloud Residency Program.

He will also meet privately with area legislators. Kaler will be joined on the visit by his wife, Karen, Regent John Frobenius, and other senior university leaders.

9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
Kaler will meet with St. Cloud Regional and Stearns County Extension staff at the regional office, 3400 First St. N., St. Cloud.

12 p.m.
Kaler will speak to the St. Cloud Rotary, which begins its luncheon meeting at noon. He will provide an update on his first four months as president and discuss his vision and priorities for the university in research, teaching and outreach. The Rotary meets at Le St. Germain Suites Hotel, 404 West St. Germain, St. Cloud. Regent Dean Johnson will join the university delegation for this.

During the afternoon, the president will meet with CentraCare leadership, tour the residency clinic and meet with the residency director and U of M residents.

5 p.m.
Kaler will deliver brief remarks at a University of Minnesota Alumni Association Reception at CentraCare Health Plaza, 1900 CentraCare Circle, ‹St. Cloud.

Kaler is the 16th president of the university and comes from Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, where he was provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. Inaugurated on Thursday, Sept. 22, Kaler is the second university alumnus to serve as president of Minnesota’s land-grant and research university.‹

Appointed as the ninth provost of Stony Brook in October 2007, Kaler received his undergraduate degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1978 and his doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1982.

Prior to his appointment at Stony Brook, Kaler was a member of the faculty of the University of Delaware from 1989 to 2007. He served as chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering from 1996 to 2000 and dean of the College of Engineering from 2000 to 2007. He was an assistant professor and an associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Washington from 1982 to 1989.
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