Katie Conboy

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Stonehill College

Katie Conboy has served as chief academic officer at Stonehill College for the last decade.  She graduated from the University of Kansas in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts (honors) in English and completed her Ph.D. in English at the University of Notre Dame in 1986, specializing in history of the novel and feminist theory.  In 1987, she joined the faculty of the English Department at Stonehill, and she attained the rank of Professor in 1998.  As a faculty member, she published numerous articles and co-edited Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory (Columbia UP, 1997).  She chaired the English Department briefly before accepting a full-time administrative role in January 2000, and she currently serves as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.  In this role, she has been responsible for a complete revision of the General Education curriculum, the implementation of curricular innovations such as learning communities and interdisciplinary programs, the expansion of Stonehill’s international program participation, the extension of undergraduate research opportunities, and the development of a robust career services office.  In addition, she has overseen extraordinary growth of the faculty, improved faculty development opportunities, and enhanced grant activity in support of the curriculum and the faculty.

Karen Erickson

Dean, School of Liberal Arts, Southern New Hampshire University

Karen Erickson, Ph.D., M.A. (Harvard); B.A. (Stanford) is Dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Southern New Hampshire University. Previously, Dr. Erickson was on the political science faculty (emerita) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks where she also directed Arctic Affairs in the office of the Provost and a program in Science, Education, and Public Policy at the International Arctic Research Center. She has been a policy adviser to a number of Arctic organizations, and was a founder of the University of the Arctic. Her publications cover a wide range of subjects, including environmental policy, international relations, education in rural Alaska, and Arctic politics. A winner of two Fulbright awards, Dr. Erickson has held fellowships with the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, the Scholar’s Roundtable of NYU School of Law, and the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education. She was recently elected a SENCER Leadership Fellow by the Fellowship Board of the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement.

Charlotte Borst

Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty, Whittier College

Charlotte G. Borst is a professor of history, Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Dean of the Faculty at Whittier College in Whittier, California. She has had a substantial administrative career at a number of liberal arts colleges—prior to joining Whittier College in 2009, she was Provost and Professor of History at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee from 2006-2008, and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Union College in Schenectady, New York, from 2001 to 2006. She also has had faculty and administrative experience at several research universities—she was Chair of History at Saint Louis University and a faculty member in the history department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she also served as Executive Director of Historical Collections.

Borst’s research has focused upon the history of the intersection of gender and race in American health care. She has published widely on the history of midwifery and obstetrics in the United States and the history of medical school admissions in the twentieth century. Her areas of teaching have included the history of American medicine and public health, Gender and Health in American history, American women’s history, American social and intellectual history, historiography, and the American history survey. She holds the B.A. in biology from Boston University, an M.A. in history from Tufts University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in the History of Science and Medicine from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.