University appoints acting provost

Cheryl Collier has accepted an appointment as UWindsor interim provost and vice-president, academic, effective March 31.

Reporting to the president and vice-chancellor, Dr. Collier will be the University's chief academic leader, providing direction and vision for its academic planning and administration. With oversight that includes student experience, academic labour relations and support, teaching and learning technologies, library services, strategic enrolment management, academic accountability, and international development, she will enhance the University's academic mission, inspiring academic excellence and empowering positive change through regionally and globally engaged inquiry, learning, scholarship, creative activity, and research.

Collier has been a faculty member at the University since 2008, holding several leadership positions, including as acting head, associate dean partnership development and interdisciplinary studies, and acting associate vice-president academic. Since becoming dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in 2021, she has overseen various initiatives that have increased enrolment for the first time in several years, expanded the Dean's Honour Roll criteria, created a three-pillar approach to marketing, established a committee to bring together student support and retention activities, initiated faculty-specific strategic planning, developed new programs, recruited new faculty members, and reduced the faculty's deficit.

An executive search to fill the role permanently is expected to begin in 2026.