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CORVALLIS, Ore. - Lisa L. Templeton, who has helped propel the Extended Campus program at Oregon State University into a national online learning leader, has been named associate provost for the Division of Extended Campus at OSU.

She succeeds Dave King, who retired from that position last July and since has been serving as a special assistant to the provost for innovation.

Templeton has spent the last eight months as interim associate provost of Extended Campus, which is among the top 10 online education programs in the country, according to many different rankings. She had been executive director of Ecampus at OSU since 2008. She is actively national in the field of online and continuing education and serves on the board of directors for the University Professional and Continuing Education Association.

In 2016, a record 692 students earned an Oregon State diploma after completing degree requirements online with OSU Ecampus - a 17 percent increase over the previous year. For the third straight year, Ecampus was ranked in the top 10 nationally by U.S. News & World Report. OSU was eighth out of more than 300 higher education institutions in the category of Best Online Bachelor's Programs, and first among all land grant universities.

Last year, more than 19,000 OSU students - roughly 60 percent of the student body - took at least one online course. Ecampus serves students in all 50 states and more than 40 countries. It now delivers 50 degree programs and more than a thousand classes online.

Templeton has a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture from The Ohio State University and an Ed.M. in adult education from Oregon State.