Committee
Steering Committee Members
Anne D’Alleva (Co-Chair)
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Pamir Alpay (Co-chair)
Vice President for Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Margaret Feeney
Executive Director for Strategic Planning and Initiatives
Laura Burton
Department Head, Educational Leadership, Neag School of Education
Sandy Chafouleas
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, Neag School of Education
Indrajeet Chaubey
Dean, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
Mo Cotton Kelly
UConn Foundation Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President for Stakeholder Engagement
Laura Cruickshank
Associate Vice President, Master Planner and Chief Architect
Fany Hannon
Interim Dean of Students
Ofer Harel
Interim Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Jonathan Heiden
President of Undergraduate Student Government
Fumiko Hoeft
Campus Dean, Chief Administrative Officer, Waterbury
Andrea Keilty
Chief of Staff, UConn Health
Gladis Kersaint
Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
George Kuchel
Travelers Chair in Geriatrics and Gerontology; Director, UConn Center on Aging
Tricia Leahey
Director of InCHIP
Michael Lynch
BOT Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Provost Professor of the Humanities
Eboni Nelson
Dean, School of Law
Mark Overmyer-Velázquez
Campus Dean, Chief Administrative Officer, Hartford
Essam Boraey
Graduate Student Senate
Leslie Shor
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, College of Engineering
Del Siegle
Lynn and Ray Neag Endowed Chair for Talent Development
David Souder
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, School of Business
Frank Tuitt
Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer
Dan Weiner
Vice President for Global Affairs
Cara Workman
Director of University Events and Conference Services
Working Group Members
Promoting Holistic Student Success
Jennifer Lease Butts (co-chair)
Associate Vice Provost for Enrichment Programs, Director of the Honors Program
Tadarrayl Starke (Co-chair)
Associate Vice Provost for Student Success
Maureen Armstrong
Associate Dean of Students, Director, Dean of Students Office
Joseph Briody
Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs & Executive Director of Student Activities
Michael Finiguerra
Associate Professor in Residence, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department
Kathy Fischer
Associate Director, Women’s Center
Mansour Ndiaye
Assistant Dean, Executive Director, CLAS Academic Services
Jonelle Reynolds
Director of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives
Lisa Werkmeister Rozas
Professor, Director of the BSW Program, School of Social Work
Expanding Research Impact
Lindsay Distefano (Co-chair)
Associate Vice President for Research Development; Professor, Kinesiology Department
Raj Lalla (Co-chair)
Professor and Associate Dean for Research, School of Dental Medicine
Emmanouil Anagnostou
Associate Dean, College of Engineering; Director, Eversource Energy Center
Kim Dodge-Kafka
Assistant Dean for Research Planning
Amy Gorin
Vice Provost for Health Sciences and Interdisciplinary Initiatives, Professor of Psychological Sciences
Daniel Schwartz
Director of the Center for Open Research Resources & Equipment (COR²E) and Associate Professor of Physiology & Neurobiology
Steven Suib
Director, Institute of Materials Science; Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, Chemistry Department
Anthony Vella
Professor and Chair, Boehringer Ingelheim Chair in Immunology
Powering a Thriving Connecticut
Jit Banerjee (Co-chair)
Associate Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Jennifer Orlikoff (Co-chair)
Campus Dean, Chief Administrative Officer, Stamford
Jessica Chrabaszcz
Executive Associate Athletic Director, Competitive Excellence
Leila Daneshmandi
Assistant Professor-in-Residence of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, College of Engineering
Frank Gifford
Associate Vice President for Development, UConn Foundation
Jim Lowe
Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director, Center for Career Development
David Noble
Director of the Peter J. Werth Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Stephanie Reitz
University Spokesperson and Manager of Media Relations
Annemarie Seifert
Campus Dean, Chief Administrative Officer, Avery Point
Ngozi Taffe
Associate Vice President for Global Affairs
Implementation Planning Team Members
Jennifer Dineen (Co-chair)
Associate Professor-in-Residence, School of Public Policy
Brenton Graveley (Co-chair)
Professor and Chair, Genetics and Genome Sciences; Director, UConn Stem Cell Institute
Robert Bird
Professor of Business Law, Eversource Energy Chair in Business Ethics, School of Business
Lakeesha Brown
Interim Chief Human Resources Officer
Kate Clark
Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Finance and Administration
Robert Corbett
Executive Director & Director of Real Estate and Regional Projects
Kimberly Fearney
Associate Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer
Kent Holsinger
Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of The Graduate School, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Biology
Joe Thompson
Associate Vice President of University Business Services and Chief Procurement Officer
Jeremy Campbell
Director of Financial Planning and Analysis
Stanley Nolan
Interim Associate Vice President, UConn Facilities Operations