The Search for Our Next Provost

Dr. John Buckwalter currently serves as the Provost and Vice President for
Academic Affairs at Boise State University. Boise State University is a metropolitan
doctoral institution that serves over 27,000 students, with the vision of being a
premier student success driven research university innovating for statewide and
global impact. In 2023 Boise State University was recognized with the Degree
Completion Award from Association of Public and Land Grant Universities (APLU)
and the Beacon Award for Student Success from the Northwest Commission on
Colleges and Universities (NWCCU). In addition to initiatives around educational
access and student success, Dr. Buckwalter has advocated for investment in
endowed faculty awards seeing numerous new endowed faculty professorships
funded during the current capital campaign.

Prior to joining Boise State University in 2021, Dr. Buckwalter served for 8 years as
the Betty L. Tointon Dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences at Kansas
State University. He championed student success with innovative new academic
programs and initiatives that emphasized professional preparedness and a
competitive edge for career advancement. The college was comprised of six
departments, multiple centers and institutes, and had an enrollment of ~2800
students. The academic programs within the college aligned with business, design,
teacher education, human behavior and health sciences.

Prior to joining Kansas State University in 2013, Dr. Buckwalter spent six years at
the University of Texas at Arlington as chair of the Department of Kinesiology and
later as the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of
Education and Health Professions. Prior to moving to Texas, he spent 12 years at the
Medical College of Wisconsin where he began as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and
eventually rose to the rank of Associate Professor of Anesthesiology. During his
time in Wisconsin, he developed a primary research agenda related to the neural
control of blood flow during exercise. Dr. Buckwalter’s research has been supported
by a number of sources including grants from both the National Institutes of Health
and the American Heart Association.

Dr. Buckwalter is originally from Arkansas and grew up in a military family. He
earned a B.A. in Spanish and B.S. in Health and Physical Education at Centenary
College in Shreveport Louisiana and both a M.S. and Ph.D. in Kinesiology from the
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He is a Fellow of both the American
Physiological Society and the American College of Sports Medicine.