Paul Rollin
Paul Rollin was a French academic. He was successively president of the University of Rouen, and rector of the academies of Rennes, Versailles and Aix-Marseille. In between his various positions as rector, he acted twice as policy adviser to Jean-Pierre Chevènement and Lionel Jospin, both French Ministers of National Education. He was an Officier de la Légion d'Honneur, a Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite and an Officier des Palmes académiques.
Childhood and early life
Paul Rollin was born in 1932 in Bordeaux and lived around Marseille up until 1938 where he and his family moved to Oran, Algeria until 1945. Once a young adult, he moved to Paris and studied natural sciences in university. In 1955, he became assistant at the Science Faculty of Paris, and in 1962, he completed a state doctorate study. Two years later, in 1964, he moved to Rouen where he became a Senior Lecturer at the Sciences Faculty of Rouen. He married Monique Lambert in 1955 and they had three children.Career
From a title of professor without chair in 1967, he became a full time faculty member in 1969, and finally the dean of the University of Rouen just a year later. That same year, as the head of a research laboratory associated to the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, he became member of the CNRS advisory committee. In 1976, still in Rouen, Paul Rollin became the President of the University of Sciences.Appointed rector of the academy of Rennes in 1981, he had to renounce his activities as rector in 1984 to become a primary policy adviser to the French Minister of National Education Jean-Pierre Chevènement. Afterwards, from 1986 to 1988, he was Rector of the academy of Versailles.
In 1988, he was again appointed by the French Minister of National Education, Lionel Jospin, to be his policy adviser, where he worked specifically on the "Loi d'orientation sur l'éducation". After the mandate of the Minister ended in 1990, Paul Rollin became Rector of the academy of Aix-Marseille. He retired from his position in 1996, and enjoyed retirement in his childhood region of Provence.