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Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs & Provost

David Lavallee

David Lavallee has an extensive record in higher education administration as well as international education, science education and research.  Before assuming his current position as Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs for the State University of New York system, he served as provost at the SUNY campus at New Paltz.  There he hired over two-thirds of their current faculty, attracting scholar/teachers from the best graduate programs in the US and abroad who closely match the campus’s diverse student body.  Expanded programs to assist and mentor students and academic policy changes resulted in higher and essentially equal graduation rates for all groups of students (Asian, Black, Latino, Caucasian and economically disadvantaged (EOP). He reorganized the academic structure of the college, fostering the development of a strong School of Business and enhanced Sciences and Engineering while further developing the well established areas of the arts, education and the liberal arts and, in particular, interdisciplinary programs.

At his previous provostial position at the City College of New York, he led the effort to develop admissions standards by academic discipline, phased out remediation and enhanced advising which has resulted in significantly higher graduation rates.  From 1978 until 1994, Dr. Lavallee was a chemistry professor at Hunter College. He served in numerous capacities in international education and education policy for the American Chemical Society.  He was awarded the national award for the college chemistry teaching and was a Fulbright senior research scholar award in France and Turkey.  He has presented invited lectures at over 125 universities, scientific meetings and research institutes and has authored numerous peer-reviewed research articles and two books, and has been associate editor and senior consultant for two encyclopedias of chemistry.  He consulted for the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.  From 1990 to 1994, he was Associate Provost.

In addition to his activities in research and international education, Provost Lavallee has been intimately involved in articulation and teacher education issues for the past twenty years.

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