Education
Rice studied philosophy at Augsburg College in Minnesota and graduated with a bachelor"s degree in 1984.
linguist rector rector of Oslo
Rice studied philosophy at Augsburg College in Minnesota and graduated with a bachelor"s degree in 1984.
Rice is the first rector of his institution who was not elected. He began his rectorship on 1 August 2015. He is not the first non-Norwegian to head a Norwegian university or college, as the University of Oslo has had several non-Norwegian chancellors.
A major issue of his tenure as rector is the question of whether HiOA should apply for the status of a university to become one of Norway"s new universities.
He spent the 1984–1985 academic year as a Fulbright grantee at KU Leuven, Belgium. He then went to the University of Texas at Austin for a Doctor of Philosophy in general linguistics.
Rice grew up in Rochester, Minnesota, and graduated from high school there in 1980. He is an alumnus of Rochester Mayo High School.
Rice has been a professor in the Department of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Tromsø, Norway.
He studies generative grammar and phonology. He was the founding director of the first Center of Excellence in Tromsø, the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL) and he served as the Pro Rector for Research and Development 2009–2013. Rice currently leads Norway"s Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity in Research and he is the chair of the board of Current Research Information Systems in Norway (CRIStin).
He also has represented the faculty on the University Board in Tromsø.
He applied unsuccessfully for the rector position at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.