A longtime professor identified for her dedication to undergraduate pupil success is poised to develop into the College of Michigan’s inaugural vice provost for undergraduate training.
Angela D. Dillard, the Richard A. Meisler Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and African Research and within the Residential Faculty, and chair of the Division of Historical past in LSA, has been appointed to the brand new function and can start Jan. 1.
Her five-year appointment was licensed by Laurie McCauley, provost and govt vice chairman for tutorial affairs, and might be reported to the Board of Regents in December.
McCauley introduced the appointment at a Nov. 27 State of the College occasion for invited college leaders.
The vice provost for undergraduate training might be accountable for main, overseeing and advancing continuous enhancements in training, together with accreditation, for greater than 32,000 undergraduate college students in partnership with faculties and schools that enroll undergraduate college students.
Dillard has distinguished herself as an incisive scholar, progressive chief and advocate for colleagues and college students, McCauley mentioned.
“Having excelled in a mess of capacities on campus, she brings a mixture of deep institutional data and a ardour for pupil success to this important new function,” she mentioned. “Professor Dillard’s appointment is a milestone within the college’s dedication to delivering a wealthy, inclusive, and transformative undergraduate expertise for each pupil.”
Dillard focuses on American and African American mental historical past, notably round problems with race, faith and politics, and has a particular curiosity in city research.
“I couldn’t be extra passionate about assembly the challenges of this function and dealing collaboratively with fellow school members, advisers, deans and affiliate deans, and naturally our college students,” Dillard mentioned.
“Ensuring that every one college students within the undergraduate-serving faculties and schools are capable of take full benefit of every thing a Michigan training has to supply is the primary purpose.”
Dillard started her educational profession as a visiting lecturer at James Madison Faculty at Michigan State College in 1995. She was an assistant professor on the College of Minnesota from 1995-97, after which served at New York College as an assistant professor from 1997-2002 and affiliate professor from 2002-06.
Dillard joined U-M as an affiliate professor with tenure in 2006. She was promoted to professor in 2009, and ws appointed the Richard A. Meisler (previously Earl Lewis) Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and African Research and within the Residential Faculty in 2014.
Dillard, who is also a professor of historical past, of Afroamerican and African research and within the Residential Faculty, has chaired the Division of Historical past since 2021. She was the affiliate dean for undergraduate training in LSA from 2017-19.
Two hallmarks of Dillard’s profession have been her interdisciplinary strategy to instructing and a robust dedication to recruiting and supporting switch college students, particularly these from neighborhood schools. She was the co-principal investigator for LSA’s Switch Bridges to the Humanities grant funded by the Mellon Basis.
In 2020-21, Dillard served as chair of the Tutorial Advisory Committee for the Democracy and Debate Theme Semester, which supported programs and programming in almost each college and school throughout campus and launched a singular partnership between the U-M Museum of Artwork and the Ann Arbor Metropolis Clerk’s workplace to advertise pupil voting.
Dillard serves on the Bentley Historic Library’s govt committee, the advisory board for the Mellon Basis’s Faculty and Past II examine, the steering committee for U-M’s Humanities Collaboratory and the nationwide steering committee for the Our Compelling Curiosity Collection. She was a part of the design group for U-M’s Inclusive Historical past Venture and is a previous member of the state of Michigan’s Freedom Path Fee.
As well as, Dillard is the co-principal investigator on the Michigan-Mellon Venture on the Egalitarian Metropolis, a collaborative initiative that explores modern points on urbanism and egalitarianism. She can be a member of the college group that leads the Detroit River Story Lab, which cultivates partnerships to raise traditionally nuanced and contextually conscious tales that heart the Detroit River within the lives and struggles of its adjoining communities.
Dillard acquired a Bachelor of Arts diploma in 1988 from Michigan State College and a Grasp of Arts diploma in 1991 from the New Faculty for Social Analysis. She earned a second Grasp of Arts diploma in 1992 and a doctoral diploma in 1995 from U-M.
