Provost Nicolle Parsons-Pollard sent the following message to the Georgia State University community October 24, 2024:

Dear colleagues,

I am writing to inform you that Michael Galchinsky, Senior Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, has been appointed Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Affairs at Colorado State University effective May 1, 2025. His last day at Georgia State will be March 31.

An interim successor will be named at a later date.

Dr. Galchinsky’s contributions to the academic leadership of Georgia State have been significant. He was appointed as Georgia State’s first Senior Associate Provost for Academic Affairs in 2022.

He and his office work with colleges and departments to develop new degree programs and interdisciplinary options, ensure the high quality and value of existing programs, and shepherd program proposals to the Board of Regents.

He has also been responsible for overseeing the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Online Education (CETLOE), a major resource for faculty and staff vital to advancing student success and promoting effective pedagogy.

From January 2017 through June 2022, he served as Associate Provost for Institutional Effectiveness and led the university’s decennial reaffirmation of accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) in 2019.

In that role and in his current role, he has been part of the team that oversaw the first and second Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) faculty job satisfaction improvement cycles, a major effort to make Georgia State the best place to work in higher education.

Prior to that, he served on the University Senate and sat on the executive committees of the Department of English, the Middle East Institute and the College of Arts and Sciences. He also led in the redesign of the university’s Academic Program Review policy in 2012 and was appointed as the university’s Director of Academic Program Review and Distance Education in 2014.

He first joined Georgia State’s English department in 1998, and his scholarship has studied human rights literature and culture, genocide and mass atrocity prevention, international human rights and humanitarian law, and Jewish studies.

Georgia State’s academic quality and reputation are central to accomplishing our mission of excellence and educational opportunity for all. The work of Dr. Galchinsky and his team has been essential in advancing this mission, and I am grateful for his expertise and dedication throughout the years.

Please join me in thanking Dr. Galchinsky for his outstanding service to Georgia State and wishing him the best as he moves forward.

Sincerely,

 

Nicolle Parsons-Pollard, Ph.D.
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs