Robert Gundlach serves as Northwestern’s Faculty Athletics Representative to the NCAA and the Big Ten Conference, a position he has held since 2002. His various leadership roles at Northwestern include serving in interim capacity as Director of Athletics and Recreation from January-April 2008, and as Interim Combe Family Vice President for Athletics and Recreation from May-June 2021.
Gundlach has chaired the University Committee on Athletics and Recreation from 1988 until 1992, and since 2002 has been Northwestern's Faculty Athletics Representative to the NCAA and the Big Ten Conference. In 2005-06, he was chair of the Big Ten Faculty Athletics Representatives, and continued to serve in various roles as co-chair of the Big Ten Joint Group, chair of the Big Ten Academics and Eligibility Subcommittee, and a member of the Big Ten Program and Budget Review Committee. He has also been a member of the NCAA Academics, Eligibility, and Compliance Cabinet; the Cabinet's subcommittee on initial eligibility; and two NCAA working groups on academic issues.
Gundlach is a long-time Northwestern professor in the department of linguistics, where he served as department chair from 2004 to 2007. He was the founding director of Northwestern's Cook Family Writing Program from 1977 until 2019 and has been a faculty associate of the program since 2019.
Gundlach has chaired the University Committee on Athletics and Recreation from 1988 until 1992, and since 2002 has been Northwestern's Faculty Athletics Representative to the NCAA and the Big Ten Conference. In 2005-06, he was chair of the Big Ten Faculty Athletics Representatives, and continued to serve in various roles as co-chair of the Big Ten Joint Group, chair of the Big Ten Academics and Eligibility Subcommittee, and a member of the Big Ten Program and Budget Review Committee. He has also been a member of the NCAA Academics, Eligibility, and Compliance Cabinet; the Cabinet's subcommittee on initial eligibility; and two NCAA working groups on academic issues.
Gundlach is a long-time Northwestern professor in the department of linguistics, where he served as department chair from 2004 to 2007. He was the founding director of Northwestern's Cook Family Writing Program from 1977 until 2019 and has been a faculty associate of the program since 2019.