Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans has announced that Anne McCall will serve as the institution’s next provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. She will officially assume the role of provost on July 1.
Dr. McCall currently serves as dean of the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences at Binghamton University, a campus of the State University of New York System. Earlier, Dr. McCall was dean of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Denver and associate dean of the School of Liberal Arts and associate dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Science at Tulane University in New Orleans.
“Having lived in New Orleans for 17 years while at Tulane, I have known of the strength of Xavier’s academic programs, its social justice mission, and the success of its students. We seek to build on the University’s core identity and academic strengths to make it an even better institution,” said Dr. McCall.
Dr. McCall is a native of Washington, D.C., and grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia, where she majored in French and German. She holds a doctoral degree from the University of Strasbourg in France.