Ruth Watkins
| Ruth V. Watkins | |
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| Provost & Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of the University of Utah |
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Assumed office August 1, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | David W. Pershing |
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University of Northern Iowa (B.S.) University of Kansas (M.S.) University of Kansas (Ph.D.) |
| Profession | University Administrator |
Ruth V. Watkins is an American scholar of child language and speech pathology. She is currently the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of the University of Utah.
Watkins completed a bachelor's degree in speech-language pathology, graduating from the University of Northern Iowa with highest honors in 1985. She completed her graduate work at the University of Kansas, earning a master's in child language/speech-language pathology in 1987, and her Ph.D. in child language in 1989. Additionally, she has a certificate of clinical competence in speech-language pathology. In 2003, she was named a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
In 1989, Watkins was appointed as an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, as well as program director of the Callier Center for Communication Disorders, where she worked until 1993. Also in 1993, she moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an assistant professor, and was appointed associate dean for academic and research affairs in the College of Applied Life Studies in 2000, then associate provost responsible for undergraduate education and academic affairs in 2003. She served in this capacity until she was promoted to vice provost, a post she held from 2006-2008. In 2008, she was named dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which included approximately 600 faculty, 2,500 graduate students, and 12,000 undergraduate students, with an annual operating budget of about $142 million.
On 4 April 2013, it was announced that Watkins would assume the post of Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Utah. She officially began in this capacity on 1 August 2013, also receiving an appointment as a full professor in the Department of Linguistics. Her work in this position has included advocacy for better online education and an emphasis on cross-disciplinary science, including support for interdisciplinary cluster hires via her creation of the Transformative Excellence Program.
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