Ventures Winter 2020-2021 | Page 9

AROUND THE QUAD

Academic Leadership : New Appointments

Christine Moran , Ph . D . Cheryl Wilson , Ph . D .,
Ali Eskandarian , Ph . D .
Starting with the Fall 2020 semester , two current Stevenson academic administrators took on new roles and the university welcomed new leadership for Stevenson University Online .
Christine Moran , Ph . D .— formerly Dean of Student Success , Associate Dean for Service-Learning , and Professor , Education — assumed a new role as the Dean of the School of Education , in addition to Vice Provost for Student Success .
Cheryl Wilson , Ph . D ., Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences , has an extended role as Interim Dean of the Brown School of Business and Leadership , and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs .
New to Stevenson is Ali Eskandarian , Ph . D ., Dean of Stevenson University Online , and Vice Provost for Online Learning , who joined the university in October . Eskandarian brings more than 20 years of innovation and experience in academic administration and program development to the position . From 2012 to 2018 , he served concurrently as the Dean for the College of Professional Studies , and the Dean and Chief Executive for the Virginia Science and Technology Campus at The George Washington University ( GW ). He was also a Founder and Co-Director of the Center for Quantum Computing , Information , Logic , and Topology , and Professor of Physics at GW . He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ), and a Fellow of the Washington Academy of Sciences .
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