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We are proud to congratulate Angela Dillard for her appointment as Vice Provost for undergraduate education at the University of Michigan. Dillard is an Academic Leadership Institute (ALI) alumni from the 2021 cohort.  Dillard is currently the Richard A. Meisler Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan. She is a dedicated faculty

We are honored to recognize ALI alumnus, Denzil Streete, for his recent appointment as Senior Associate Dean and Director of the Office of Graduate Education (OGE) at MIT.  Denzil Streete is currently the Assistant Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Chief of Staff at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Director of

We are proud to announce that Dr. Mildred García, an ALI faculty member, has been appointed as the 11th chancellor of California State University (CSU). She is the first Latina appointed to lead the nation’s largest and most diverse four-year university system.  García  has been an advocate for public higher education at the national level,

We are proud to recognize Badia Ahad, an Academic Leadership Institute (ALI)  alumni, as the next dean of Oxford College at Emory University. Badia is part of a string of recent promotions of ALI alum.  Academic Leadership Institute’s (ALI) mission is to increase the representation of rising leaders committed to issues of Diversity, Equity, and

We are honored to recognize Dr. Robert Aguirre, an alumni from the 2021 ALI cohort, as the next Provost and Vice-President at the University of Windsor. He is the first member of our program to attend an international position in higher education.  Academic Leadership Institute’s (ALI) mission is to increase the representation of rising leaders

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences have been honoring excellence for the past 240 years by annually electing new, accomplished members. Individuals who have faced the nation’s greatest challenges are eligible for recognition. This year, 270 members from 23 different countries have been selected to join the academy.  We are proud to recognize Academic