With 26 years of higher education experience,
Jean McGivney-Burelle, PhD, assumes
the role of provost and senior vice president of academic affairs
at Saint Joseph's University, effective
June 17, 2024.
PHILADELPHIA, May 7, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Jean McGivney-Burelle, PhD, an accomplished
higher education leader and teacher-scholar with more than
two-and-a-half decades of experience, will assume the role of
provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at
Saint Joseph's University, effective
June 17, 2024. She will succeed
Interim Provost James Carter, PhD, who served in the role since
last May, prior to which Cheryl
McConnell, PhD, now president, served since 2019.
McGivney-Burelle joins Saint Joseph's from Idaho State University, an institution with
comprehensive academic programs and multiple locations, where she
served as dean of the College of Education and as a professor in
the Department of Teaching and Educational Studies since 2020.
During her tenure, she significantly increased external grant
funding and fundraising in the college; increased the percentage of
faculty and staff from underrepresented backgrounds from 15% to
22%; established articulation and co-enrollment agreements with the
College of Southern Idaho; invested
$1 million in funding to support
student scholarships, faculty research, innovative teaching and
student engagement projects; and launched a suite of fully online
education programs; among many other impressive
accomplishments.
"Dr. McGivney-Burelle is a champion of inclusive leadership with
a keen understanding of academic culture," says President
Cheryl McConnell, PhD. "What was
clear to me and our search advisory committee is that she is an
innovative and strategic thinker capable of leading complex
institutions and sustained academic growth. As we continue to
diversify our portfolio, expand our roots in Lancaster and elevate the national profile of
Saint Joseph's, I am confident
that she is precisely the leader we need at the helm."
Prior to her time at Idaho State
University, McGivney-Burelle was with the University of Hartford from 2005-2015, where she
held a faculty appointment in the Department of Mathematics and
assumed numerous and complex leadership roles that underscored her
commitment to shared governance and collaborative leadership.
During her 15 years with the university, she was the inaugural
executive director of the university's Center for Teaching
Excellence and Innovation; associate dean of budget and finance for
the College of Arts and Sciences; chair of the Department of
Education in the College of Education, Nursing and Health
Professions; and director of the mathematics/secondary education
program. Her ability to take on multiple leadership roles
concurrently was proven time and again, as she seamlessly assumed
additional university-level leadership roles as chair, co-chair or
director of committees and task forces that ranged from strategic
planning to academic technology.
Before joining the University of
Hartford, McGivney-Burelle was part of the faculty of the
University of Connecticut and
Southern Connecticut State University.
In her 26-year career, she has received numerous awards and
fellowships, including Innovations in Teaching and Learning at the
University of Hartford, Leadership
Cohort Fellow of the Network for Educational Renewal, and Project
NEXT Fellow of the Mathematical Association of America.
McGivney-Burelle received her PhD in curriculum instruction with
an emphasis on mathematics education from the University of Connecticut, her master's in
mathematics with an emphasis on combinatorics and graph theory from
Northeastern University, and her
bachelor's in mathematics from University of
Hartford.
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