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Dr. Cheryl Collier is the Interim Provost and Vice-President, Academic, effective March 31, 2025.
Dr. Collier has been Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (FAHSS) since 2021. She is a full professor in the Department of Political Science and has been a faculty member at the University since 2008.
As Dean of FAHSS, Dr. Collier has overseen various initiatives that have increased enrolment for the first time in several years, expanded the Dean’s Honour Roll criteria, created a three-pillar approach to marketing, established a committee to bring together student support and retention activities, initiated Faculty-specific strategic planning, developed new programs, recruited new faculty members, and reduced the Faculty’s deficit.
Dr. Collier has held several administrative roles at the University of Windsor including Undergraduate Chair of Political Science, Director of the Interdisciplinary Health Research Centre for the Study of Violence Against Women, Department Head for Political Science (Acting), Associate Dean Partnership Development and Interdisciplinary Studies, and Associate Vice-President Academic (Acting) in the Provost’s Office. She has also received a number of research grants and teaching awards over the years.
During her sabbatical in 2015, Dr. Collier became a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy’s Centre for Local, State, and Urban Politics, where she returned the following year to teach an international graduate class on public administration. She has served on the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) Board of Directors, acted as Program Chair of the Association’s national academic conference, and was elected to serve as Vice-President and later as President of the same association. Dr. Collier was the first and only elected President of the CPSA from the University of Windsor in its 112-year history.
Dr. Collier has published in the areas of Canadian and comparative public policy, women’s substantive and descriptive representation, institutions, social movements, provincial politics, federalism, and violence against women in politics.