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:''This article is about the UAB administrator. For others with similar names, see [[James Woodward (disambiguation)]].''
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'''James H. Woodward Jr''' (born c. [[1945]]) is an aerospace engineer, a former professor and administrator at [[UAB]], and former interim chancellor of North Carolina State University. 

Dean earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the Georgia Institute of Technology, culminating with his doctorate in engineering mechanics in [[1967]]. As a graduate student he served as an assistant professor at the US Air Force Academy. Entering the service as a 1st Lieutenant he was promoted to Captain in [[1968]]. He taught at North Carolina State University for a year before coming to [[Birmingham]] in [[1969]] as an associate professor of engineering at UAB. While there he completed a Masters in Business Administration ([[1973]]) and took an outside job as director of technical development for [[Rust International]] from [[1970]] to [[1973]]. He became an assistant to the vice president for University College that year and was promoted to full professor in [[1977]]. He became the second dean of the Department of Engineering on [[September 15]], [[1978]].

In [[1983]] Woodward was made the first director of UAB's [[Office for the Advancement of Developing Industries|Center for the Advancement of Developing Industries]]. A year later he became the third vice president for University College. While in Alabama Woodward chaired the [[Alabama Supercomputer Network Authority]]. Woodward left UAB to become chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in [[1989]].

Over 16 years at UNCC Woodward oversaw significant expansion of the school's enrollment and programs, the awarding of its first doctoral degrees and a record-setting fundraising campaign. He chaired an information technology task force for the entire UNC system and on the North Carolina Education Lottery Commission. He retired in [[2005]] and still holds the honorary title of chancellor emeritus. UNCC's Woodward Hall was named in his honor.

Woodward received the [[UAB Distinguished Alumnus Award]] in [[1995]] and was given an honorary Doctor of Laws at UAB in [[1997]]. In [[2009]] he was appointed interim chancellor for North Carolina State University.

==References==
* Pennycuff, Tim L. (May 15, 2009) "[http://www.uab.edu/historical/uabchron.html A Chronology of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and its Predecessor Institutions and Organizations, 1831-]". University of Alabama Board of Trustees
* [https://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/names/10328-woodward-james-h James H. Woodward] at NSCU.edu

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