George Washington University announced Wednesday its next president: Ellen Granberg, a sociologist who is a top official at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
of a plan to shrink undergraduate enrollment on GWU’s D.C. campuses by about 20 percent, with a larger focus on recruiting students interested in science, technology, engineering and math. LeBlanc also drew accusations of racism in 2020 after he made a, captured on video, in which he posed a hypothetical situation of a majority of students agreeing to “shoot all the Black people here.” The remark came as LeBlanc was discussing the university’s stance on fossil fuel divestment.
Granberg, 60, has been provost at RIT since 2018 and before that spent 17 years on the faculty and in leadership positions at Clemson University in South Carolina. As provost, she is the chief academic officer of a university with about 17,000 students, including 14,000 undergraduates. Heron the RIT website lists her “key initiatives,” including “increasing undergraduate student success, expanding doctoral education [and] improving facilities for instruction and research.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of California at Davis, and master’s and doctoral degrees in sociology from Vanderbilt University. Her scholarly expertise is in the sociology of self, identity and mental health.“I’ve known about and admired GW for a long, long time,” Granberg said in a telephone interview. “It’s a storied university in a storied city.”
Grace E. Speights, chair of the university’s board of trustees, said Granberg will bring “energy and excitement” to the university as it seeks to become one of the nation’s preeminent research institutions. “We have set our goals high,” Speights said. Built into the job description as GWU conducted the presidential search was a very specific goal: to raise the profile of the university enough that it would qualify to join the Association of American Universities. The AAU, an invitation-only group with a somewhat opaque membership-selection process, includes 63 universities in the United States and two in Canada.
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