Martin C. Jischke

1941-; president 1991-2000

Martin C. Jischke became the 13th president of Iowa State University on June 1, 1991. During his tenure, he led the university in a revitalization of the land-grant mission of teaching, research and outreach.

Under his leadership, Iowa State made significant progress toward its goal of becoming the nation's best land-grant university. The university set new records in enrollment of top students and minority students, sponsored funding, private fund raising, and licensing and income from intellectual property.

Dr. Jischke led Iowa State in the development of new partnerships with government, other educational institutions and the private sector in furtherance of its land-grant mission. Of particular note were Iowa State's many cooperative agreements with Iowa's community colleges, agreements that encompassed educational, research, technology transfer and outreach programs.

Dr. Jischke came to Iowa State from the University of Missouri, Rolla, where he served as chancellor from 1986 to 1991. He spent 17 years as a faculty member and administrator at the University of Oklahoma, serving as director of the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering; dean of the College of Engineering; and, in 1985, as interim president. He left Iowa State on Aug. 14, 2000, to become president of Purdue University.

A native of Chicago, Dr. Jischke earned the B.S. in physics, with honors, in 1963 from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He earned the M.S. in 1964 and Ph.D. in 1968 in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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