New provost and vice-president, academic and research begins term Aug. 1

New provost and vice-president, academic and research begins term Aug. 1
2012-07-30 15:02:46

SACKVILLE, NB ? Mount Allison University will soon welcome its new provost and vice-president, academic and research. Dr. Karen R. Grant was appointed to the position for a five-year term effective Aug. 1, 2012.

?I am simply delighted to be taking on this exciting role at Mount Allison,? Grant says. ?I am honoured?to be part of the team at Canada?s top undergraduate university and I look ahead with anticipation to?working with the talented individuals who make up Mount Allison?s faculty, staff, and student body.?

Grant comes to Mount Allison from the University of Manitoba, where she was vice-president (academic affairs), as well as a professor in the department of sociology, specializing in health sociology and women?s health. Grant is a graduate of the University of Manitoba and earned her PhD in sociology from Boston University.

During her tenure at the University of Manitoba, Grant authored four books as well as numerous journal articles, book chapters, reviews, and presentations. She was the principal, co-principal, co-investigator, or collaborator in research projects that garnered 35 grants and contracts worth nearly $4 million. The overarching theme of all her work is the manner in which social institutions and practices bear on women?s experience of health.

Grant was also part of a working group with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) that prepared a successful application for $19.1 million in funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) for digital content infrastructure for the human and social sciences. She now serves on the board of directors of CRKN and is currently the vice-president (research policy) for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

?Dr. Grant brings with her a wealth of talent and experience, a fresh and lively approach that promises to re-invigorate our academic community, and national renown as an effective, results-oriented and?people-focused leader,? says Mount Allison?s President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Robert Campbell. ?We are delighted and fortunate to have someone with her strengths, her capacity, and her reputation join the Mount Allison community.?

The provost and vice-president, academic and research is the senior academic officer at Mount Allison and is responsible for the effective planning and management of the academic affairs of the University. The provost and vice-president, academic and research works collaboratively with deans and directors to ensure excellence across all of the University?s academic programs in three faculties as well as in the registrar?s and admissions offices, library, student life office, and numerous research and teaching centres. Specific responsibilities include providing leadership in the review of faculty appointments, tenure and promotion, as well as policy and budgetary issues and all matters pertaining to the fiscal well being of each of the sections reporting to the provost and vice-president?s office.

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Source: http://www.mta.ca/news/index.php?id=3933

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