Longwood University is a public university in Farmville,Virginia. Founded in 1839 as Farmville Female Seminary and colloquially known as Longwood or Longwood College,it is the third-oldest public university in Virginia and one of the hundred oldest institutions of higher education in the United States. Previously a female seminary,normal school,and college,Longwood became coeducational in 1976 and gained university status on July 1,2002.
Don Michael Randel is an American musicologist,specializing in the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in Spain and France. He is currently the chair of the board of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation,and a member of the Encyclopædia Britannica editorial board,and has previously served as the fifth president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,twelfth president of the University of Chicago,Provost of Cornell University,and Dean of Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. He has served as editor of the third and fourth editions of the Harvard Dictionary of Music,the Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music,and the Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2002.
Steve Ballard is a former chancellor at East Carolina University. On June 1,2004,Chancellor Ballard began his new job,becoming the tenth chief administrator at ECU.
Jamshed Bharucha is an Indian-American cognitive neuroscientist who has served in leadership roles in higher education in the United States and in India.
Ray Jayawardhana is provost and professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to this,from 2018 to 2023,he was the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University.
Richard C. McCarty is a professor of psychology and the former provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs at Vanderbilt University in Nashville,Tennessee. Prior to serving as provost,he was dean of Vanderbilt's College of Arts and Science.
Philip George Furia was an American author and English literature professor. His books focus on the lyricists of the Tin Pan Alley era.
Garnett Sue Stokes is an American academic administrator serving as the 23rd president of the University of New Mexico. She assumed office on March 1,2018.
Joseph Glover is an American mathematician and provost of the University of Florida. He was previously provost of the University of Florida from 2008 to 2023 and provost of the University of Arizona from July to August 2024.
Steve C. Currall is an American psychological scientist and academic administrator,and served as the seventh president of the University of South Florida. He previously served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Southern Methodist University from January 1,2016. From 2009 to 2014,Currall served as Dean of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. He has also held leadership roles at University College London and Rice University. On March 22,2019,Currall was named to succeed Judy Genshaft as president of the University of South Florida,and took office July 1,2019. He announced his resignation due to health and family reasons on July 19,2021.
Ravi V. Bellamkonda is an Indian-American biomedical engineer and academic administrator. Since 2021,he has served as Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Emory University in Atlanta,Georgia. Bellamkonda was previously Vinik Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. Pending approval by the Board of Trustees,he will serve as Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at The Ohio State University in Columbus,Ohio,effective January 14,2025.
Joseph E. Steinmetz was the sixth chancellor of the University of Arkansas. He succeeded G. David Gearhart on Jan. 1,2016,following academic and administrative positions at Stanford University,Indiana University Bloomington,University of Kansas,and Ohio State University.
Ruth V. Watkins is a student of speech language pathology,and the former president of the University of Utah. She stepped down from the role on April 7,2021,to enter the private sector.
Joseph P. Ward is an American historian and author who is currently dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Utah State University.
Beate Schmittmann is a German-American condensed matter physicist and academic administrator who is dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University. Her research includes work on driven diffusive systems,biomolecular transport,and epidemiology.
David Harris Cohen is an American neuroscientist,physiologist,and academic administrator. He is the provost at the University of the People. Cohen was president of the Society for Neuroscience. He was vice president and dean of the faculty at the Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 1995 to 2003 and provost of Northwestern University from 1986 to 1995.
