Paula Burger serves as vice provost in addition to her primary role as dean of undergraduate education for the Homewood campus.
As vice provost, Dr. Burger’s current portfolio includes university-wide initiatives to enhance the quality of the undergraduate experience, engagement in the strategic planning process, and oversight and compliance issues as they relate to various student policies and programs. The University Director of Financial Aid is responsible to her. Dr. Burger serves also as the Johns Hopkins representative to the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE).
After a decade as a full-time vice provost with various assignments, Dr. Burger in 2003 accepted appointment to a new primary position as dean of undergraduate education. In this newly created role, she is responsible for implementing at Homewood many of the new initiatives recommended by the university’s Commission on Undergraduate Education, which she chaired while serving as acting vice provost for undergraduate education in 2002 and 2003.
As dean of undergraduate education, she provides leadership for undergraduate academic programs and policies in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, and also oversees Homewood Student Affairs, the collection of departments that handle student life, and enrollment and academic services for both the Krieger School and the Whiting School of Engineering. The dean of student life and dean of enrollment and academic services report to her.
Prior to taking on the new assignments focused on undergraduate life, Dr. Burger had been vice provost for academic affairs and international programs, coordinating inter-divisional, inter-institutional and international programs for Johns Hopkins. She chaired the International Affairs Coordinating Committee and facilitated a number of international initiatives on behalf of the university and its divisions. She also was responsible for the university’s 2004 re-accreditation process, including chairing the Re-accreditation Steering Committee.
Dr. Burger earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in political science at Duke University in 1967 and 1974, respectively. She received her doctorate in political science at Johns Hopkins in 1984 and then returned to Duke, where she rose to executive vice provost before returning to Johns Hopkins in 1993. | |
Dean of Undergraduate Education and Vice Provost
237 Mergenthaler Hall
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
(410) 516-8382
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