Stephen J. Kopp
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Stephen J. Kopp (born 1950/51) is president of Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. Kopp assumed the presidency on July 1, 2005, taking over from interim president Michael J. Farrell.
Previously, Kopp was provost for two years at Ohio University (2002-2004) in Athens, Ohio, where he shared with the president the central administrative role in the university and served as the chief academic and operating officer. He led the senior administration effort to assist the university’s medical school in privatizing its patient services clinic. He also participated in Ohio University’s $200 million Bicentennial Campaign, raising more than $7 million in major gifts and pledges.
Kopp was also special assistant to the chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents. He also was founding dean of the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow College of Health Professions at Central Michigan University, and founding dean of the College of Allied Health Professions at Midwestern University. He also served in a variety of positions for nearly 20 years at the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Kopp received his B.S. in Biology in 1973 from the University of Notre Dame and his Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics in 1976 from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was a postdoctoral fellow at St. Louis University Medical Center, department of physiology, and a research fellow and NIH fellow in the department of biochemistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Kopp and his wife, Jane, have two grown children. Their son, Adam, lives in Chicago and works in the law office of the Illinois lieutenant governor. Their daughter, Elizabeth, a physical therapist, and her husband, Matthew Bradley, M.D., an orthopedic resident, live in Portland, Oregon, and are the proud parents of the Kopps’ first grandchild, Rachel.
