Curriculum Vitae Lynn Pasquerella Office of the President 1818 R Street, NW Washington, DC 20009 860-377-0581 (cell) [email protected] I. Education Brown University Ph.D. January 1985 Mount Holyoke College A.B. magna cum laude May 1980 and Phi Beta Kappa Quinebaug Valley Community College A.A. summa cum laude May 1978 II. Professional History Association of American Colleges and Universities President, 2016-present The Association of American Colleges and Universities is committed to advancing liberal education, equity, and quality in undergraduate higher education in service to democracy. Founded by 150 college presidents in 1915 as the Association of American Colleges, AAC&U currently represents 1,400 independent and public members, including two- and four-year undergraduate institutions, Masters- and doctoral-granting colleges and universities, higher education system offices, international affiliates and nonprofit organizations. Championing faculty-engaged, evidence-based, sustainable models and strategies for promoting excellence in undergraduate education, AAC&U leads institutions and communities in articulating and demonstrating the value of liberal education for work, citizenship and life. AAC&U stands at the forefront of the identification of essential learning outcomes; the understanding of employer needs and perceptions; and the development of evidence-based pedagogies, research, and program designs that emphasize the assets all students bring to college rather than their perceived deficits. As president, I have led a comprehensive strategic planning process, culminating in the plan for 2018-2022, ASPIRE: Advancing Student Performance through Integration, Research, and Excellence. Strategic initiatives include supporting centers for Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation on college and university campuses; collaborating with the Interfaith Youth Core to facilitate speaking across religious differences; guided pathways within and across institutions for underserved student success; expanding the scope and scale of work on the Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education to demonstrate student achievement of learning outcomes; and undertaking systematic research on employer surveys related to the value of 1 liberal education. Professional service includes membership on the Board of Trustees of the Lingnan Foundation; the Advisory Board of the Newman’s Own Foundation, the Board of Directors of the National Humanities Alliance; the Wye Academic Advisory Board; the Heterodox Academy Advisory Council; the Bringing Theory to Practice Board; Jarislowsky Foundation Advisory Board; Board of the Public Philosophy Journal; the Senate and Executive Committee of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, where I am the sitting president; and the National Academies of Arts and Sciences Commission on the Integration of the Arts and Humanities with STEMM (2016-2018). In addition, I co-chair the Frances Perkins Homestead Campaign with Senator George Mitchell and host Northeast Public Radio’s The Academic Minute, which airs weekdays on stations across the country and on Armed Forces Radio. Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA. President, 2010-2016 Sitting on 800 acres in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke is a residential, research liberal arts college for women. The first of the Seven Sisters, the College serves 2,300 undergraduate students in 50 majors and employs 240 faculty and 1,000 staff. My presidency was marked by a robust strategic planning process; outreach to local and regional communities; engagement with a world-wide network of Mount Holyoke’s 34,000 alumnae; and a commitment to a vibrant campus community. As the CEO, I oversaw a $717m endowment and $128.4m annual operating budget, reporting to a 31-member Board of Trustees. Major initiatives included the development of a blueprint for implementing an integrated five-year strategic planning process that aligned the College’s budget planning, facilities master planning, values initiatives, and assessment activities related to the accreditation standards set forth by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges; the establishment of the Lynk Program, connecting liberal arts and sciences to careers; the completion of a $300m comprehensive campaign; the creation of an Office of Planning and Programming and an office for Professional and Graduate Education; the founding of the President’s Commission on Work-Life-Family, a President’s Commission on Diversity and Inclusion, and Sustainability Week; instituting staff excellence awards to parallel faculty excellence awards; partnering with the U.S. Department of State in the development of the Women in Public Service Project; space audit and Facilities Master Plan; increased visibility through a branding and marketing campaign; and promoting access through service as a public intellectual in monthly broadcasts of “So, That’s All Right, Really?” on WHMP’s The Bill Newman Show, and as host of NPR’s The Academic Minute and Amherst public access television’s Difficult Dialogues: Voices From the Valley. Regional and national service includes membership on the boards of the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC); the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE); The Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (CIHE); Massachusetts Campus Compact (MACC); Amherst Media; President’s Pledge Against Global Poverty; Women’s Education Worldwide; Five Colleges, Inc.; the Executive Committee, Senate, the Lebowitz Prize Committee, and the Committee on Qualifications of Phi Beta Kappa; the Division III President’s Council of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA); President of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts 2 (AICUM); Treasurer of the Women’s College Coalition (WCC); Secretary of the Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts (EDC) and Governance and Finance Committee member. Professor of Philosophy, 2010-present I have taught courses in the Philosophy for Children, Critical Race Theory, the Sociology of Medicine, and the Sociology of Prisons. Research interests include medical ethics, philosophy of law, philosophy of race, and metaphysics. University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT. Provost, 2008-2010 A private university with a public purpose, the University of Hartford serves 5,000 undergraduate and 1,600 graduate students. Faculty in the seven schools and colleges offer opportunities in more than 100 degree-programs in the arts, humanities, business, engineering and technology, education, and health professions. In addition, the 350-acre campus houses two magnet schools, a Gardner multiple intelligence primary school and a science, technology, engineering and math high school. As the chief academic officer, my direct reports included the seven academic deans; the Director of Libraries; the Chief Information Officer and Director of Informational Technology Services; the Dean of Graduate Studies; the Associate Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies; the Assistant Provost and Dean of Faculty Development; and the Assistant Provost for Financial Planning. I worked collaboratively with the four Vice Presidents and the University’s General Counsel and Secretary in support of the President and a 60-member Board of Regents. I was a member of the Board’s Executive Committee, University Education Committee, Finance Committee, Investments Committee, and Institutional Advancement Committee. Other committee responsibilities included the Facilities Master Plan Committee; Budget Advisory Committee; the Committee on the DeWitt Museum of Political Life; and the Space Planning Committee. I served on the boards of the Corporators of the Hartford Art School; the Connecticut Conference of Independent Colleges; and the Hartford Consortium. Initiatives included the development of an academic strategic plan and the completion of a University-wide strategic plan; a university-wide values initiative, “Committed to Community;” facilitation of bi-weekly community conversations among faculty, staff, and students around diversity and inclusion; the creation of a faculty forum for the dissemination of creative, artistic, and research projects; the establishment of dual-degree partnerships between the Hangar Corporation for prosthetics and orthotics and the physical therapy program; the development of a Center for Complexity; the expansion and implementation of the Jackie McLean Fellowship to support scholars and performers from underrepresented groups; the creation of a diversity tool kit for search committees; completion of a Facilities Master Plan; and development of a baseline campus climate survey; establishment of a Center for Service Learning; creation of a Sustainability Task Force; the identification of incubator space to promote technology transfer; appointment of an assessment coordinator; enhancement of the Honors Program and International Studies Program; and coordination of the ten-year self-study report for NEASC. 3 Professor of Philosophy, 2008-2010 I taught courses in Medical Ethics and the Philosophy of Law. University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI. Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School, 2006-2008. Rhode Island’s flagship university, URI is home to 13,250 undergraduate and 3,000 graduate students on four campuses. I was responsible for assisting the Provost in overseeing the undergraduate curricula in eight colleges, 55 Masters and 36 Ph.D. programs. Direct reports included