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Steven Daley-Laursen
President University of Idaho
(Appointed as Interim President Effective June 10, 2008)
Steven B. Daley-Laursen ’79, ‘84, Dean of the University of Idaho College of Natural Resources and Professor in the Department of Forest Resources. Steven Daley-Laursen has 28 years of experience working in land grant universities. He began his career as a research associate at the University of Idaho in 1979. He joined Montana State University and the University of Montana in 1984 as an assistant professor and natural resources extension specialist. From 1988 to 2002, he worked at the University of Minnesota in several capacities, including extension professor, director and co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership, director of the statewide Regional Sustainable
Development Partnerships Program, director of the Sea Grant College, program leader for Natural Resources and Environmental Programs with the University of Minnesota Extension Service, special assistant to the President, and associate dean in the College of Natural Resources.
His areas of academic and administrative concentration are leadership theory in natural resource management and environmental education; technology transfer processes between scientists and management agencies; and organizational and institutional design for sustainable development and sustainability. He has worked throughout the United States and in 11 other countries. In 2002, Dr. Daley-Laursen became dean and professor for the College of Natural Resources at the University of Idaho. He oversees a college with more than 800 graduate and undergraduate students, 140 faculty and staff, and leading research, education and outreach initiatives with impact in Idaho, the West and the world. The college just established the nation’s first undergraduate wildland fire ecology and management program. Faculty, staff and students are actively involved in the university’s sustainability efforts and in three significant new universitywide, interdisciplinary initiatives. The college houses the Laboratory for Conservation and Ecological Genetics, the Reveley Geo-Spatial Technologies Complex, the Taylor Ranch Field Research Station in the Frank Church Wilderness and the McCall Outdoor Science School on the University’s McCall campus.
Daley-Laursen received the Secretary’s National Honor Award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for his work on an environmental science education program on the White Earth Indian Reservation. He was an inaugural fellow in the Mondale Emerging Leaders Public Policy Program at the University of Minnesota, and an inaugural fellow in the Kellogg Foundation National Leadership Program at the University of Wisconsin. He currently is the national public policy chair for the National Association of University Forest Resources Programs and has heldseveral leadership positions at the national, state and local levels in the Society of American Foresters and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.
Daley-Laursen studied international relations at the College of William and Mary, and earned a bachelor's in conservation and resource development from the University of Maryland. He earned a master’s in forest resources management and a doctorate in forest science from the University of Idaho in 1979 and 1984, respectively.
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