University of Southern California’s Jean Morrison, will succeed David Campbell as Boston University’s provost, the university announced Tuesday.
Morrison, who has been a USC faculty member since 1988 and currently serves as its executive vice provost for academic affairs and graduate programs, will start in January of 2011, a statement said.
“I am very excited to bring Jean Morrison to Boston University in this key academic leadership role,” said President Robert Brown in the statement. “She has the academic experience, skills and the vision to help the University continue on the path of increasing quality and impact.”
As provost, Morrison will serve as the “chief academic officer, guiding the educational and budget policies for the university’s 14 schools and colleges,” according to the release.
Morrison, a New York native, received several awards for teaching, including USC Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2002, Sigma Chi Professor of the Year in 2000 and Sigma Gamma Epsilon’s Excellence in Teaching Award in 2000.
According to her biography on the USC office of the provost website, Morrison played a “major role in [USC’s] WASC accreditation process as well as several other key academic programs, such as the new Ph.D. Diploma in Innovation at the unique USC Annenberg Fellows Program.”
She worked on USC budget issues alongside USC’s Vice Provost Robert Cooper.
Morrison has also held editorial positions at various magazines and journals such as Geological Society of American Bulletin, Journal of Metamorphic Geology and American Mineralogist.
Prior to her time at USC, Morrison received her bachelor’s degree from Colgate University, master’s degree from the University of Georgia and doctorate from University of Wisconsin, Madison.
“I’m incredibly excited about the opportunity at Boston University,” Morrison said in the press release. “Large research universities have a kind of energy that’s unique, and BU’s a big place. That makes for some unique and creative possibilities. It’s one of the nation’s upcoming research universities, and it has outstanding faculty, which is the heart of a research university.”
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