Judith D. Singer, the James Bryant Conant Professor of Education at Harvard University, has announced her intent to step down from her role as the Ivy League institution’s senior vice provost for faculty. Her last day in the position will be June 30.
A Harvard faculty member since 1984, Dr. Singer began her tenure as senior vice provost for faculty in 2008. Over the past two decades, she has overseen faculty development across the university. Her team coordinates efforts to recruit and retain scholars, advance their research and teaching, and support their work-life balance. She is a key advisor in the ad hoc tenure process, chairs the Provost’s Review Committee on Faculty Appointments, oversees funding for scholarly appointments, and guides all policies affecting institutional faculty affairs.
“It has been an honor to work closely with presidents, provosts, and deans these last 18 years toward our shared goal of supporting excellence across Harvard’s faculty,” said Dr. Singer. “I have been fortunate to lead a remarkable team in building the frameworks, practices, and resources that enable Harvard to attract and retain the best and brightest scholars from around the world and support them in their work.”
In her own scholarship, Dr. Singer focuses on improving the quantitative methods used in social, educational, and behavioral research. She has published nearly 100 articles and book chapters, as well as three books, including Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis: Modeling Change and Event Occurrence (Oxford University Press, 2003).
Dr. Singer holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University at Albany of the State University of New York System and a Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard.