ATLANTA—Sara Rosen, senior vice provost for academic affairs at the University of Kansas, has been named dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Georgia State University, effective Aug. 17.
Sara Rosen
Rosen, who has been at the University of Kansas for 25 years, has been senior vice provost for academic affairs since 2011 and interim provost and executive vice chancellor since January 2016.
In a variety of positions at Kansas, she has provided key leadership in a broad range of areas such as academic program quality, scholarship and research across the university, campus-wide diversity and inclusion efforts, and allocation of university resources in a difficult fiscal landscape.
Rosen also had oversight of Undergraduate Studies, Graduate Studies, Student Affairs, International Programs, Online and Distance Learning, Institutional Compliance. She has overseen implementation of the university’s 2012-2017 strategic plan. Prior to these positions, she was chairperson of the Linguistics Department for seven years and dean of graduate studies for four years.
“President Becker and I look forward to working with Dr. Rosen and welcome her to our leadership team,” said Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Risa Palm. “We have great confidence in her potential to lead through the coming years.”
Rosen earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She holds a Ph.D. in linguistics and cognitive science from Brandeis University.