Dr. Parwinder Grewal, an entomologist and administrator on the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, will serve as the first president of Vermont State University, an establishment slated to launch in the summertime of 2023.
Administrators on the Vermont State Colleges, that are present process a metamorphosis into the Vermont State University system, introduced Grewal’s hiring in a Monday press launch.
“Dr. Grewal brings over 25 years of higher education experience and 10 years of biotechnology research and development experience in industry and government in six US states and five countries,” directors wrote within the press launch.
Grewal is at the moment the particular assistant to the president on the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, a roughly decade-old faculty created by means of the merger of the University of Texas Brownsville and the University of Texas Pan American. Prior to January, he was the manager vice president for analysis, graduate research and new program growth.
In 2013, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley accomplished a merger course of that
seems not in contrast to the one happening on the Vermont State Colleges.
Faced with years of state underfunding and dropping enrollment, the Vermont State Colleges system has been planning a systemwide consolidation.
Administrators are working to mix three of the system’s colleges — Castleton University, Northern Vermont University and Vermont Technical College — into one entity known as Vermont State University. The fourth faculty, Community College of Vermont, will stay beneath its present governance mannequin.
The new establishment is slated to launch in July 2023, with Grewal on the helm.
“I look forward to collaborating with Chancellor (Sophie) Zdatny, the VSC System, the Board of Trustees, the State of Vermont, community leaders, faculty, staff, and students to build our new university as a national model for a state-wide, community-engaged, hybrid university that transforms lives and communities across the state,” Grewal stated within the press launch. “I see this as an incredible opportunity to build a model, post-COVID university in the United States.”
“We are excited for Parwinder Grewal to chart this new path for higher education in Vermont,” Zdatny, chancellor of the state schools system, stated in a press launch.
Information about Grewal’s contract or compensation was not instantly obtainable, in keeping with Katherine Levasseur, a Vermont State Colleges spokesperson.
“The contract’s being drafted right now, so I don’t have that information today,” Levasseur stated.
Grewal additionally has taught entomology and nematology, the examine of microscopic organisms known as nematodes or roundworms, at Ohio State University and the University of Tennessee.
A former president of the Society of Nematologists, he’s an internationally acknowledged nematode professional, in keeping with the press launch.
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