“She has been a leader in making certain that higher education is accessible to more and more people, a public good that should be available to students from all backgrounds and income levels. “Marie Lynn comes to UIC and the University of Illinois System as a champion for higher education, a believer in the undisputable impact that a great university can have on the lives of its students, their families and the communities it serves,” Killeen said. University of Illinois System President Tim Killeen said Miranda’s deep experience as a higher education innovator dedicated to access, excellence and community engagement will serve UIC well.

Together we can provide life-changing educational programs at scale, while fostering the world-class research and engagement our city, state, country and world need.” “I look forward to learning from and working with students, faculty and staff as we work collaboratively with our community partners to meet the pressing challenges and opportunities before us. “It is an honor to be chosen to lead one of the country’s great urban universities and to serve this global city and its people,” Miranda said. Miranda brings a wide range of other leadership experience at Rice University, the University of Michigan and Duke University to her new role as chancellor of UIC and its nearly 34,000 students and 13,000 faculty and staff. As provost, she led the private university’s academic response to the COVID-19 pandemic helped drive efforts to increase faculty and student diversity, resulting in the most diverse first-year class in school history in 2021 started a transformational leaders program to provide resources to students from under-served backgrounds and led a bottom up strategic planning process that engaged more than 600 members of the faculty. Miranda, 59, served as provost at Notre Dame through 2021 and remains a member of the faculty in its Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics. She will succeed Chancellor Michael Amiridis, who became President of the University of South Carolina in June. 17 meeting, Miranda will take office on July 5, 2023, as the 10 th chancellor of UIC. Pending formal approval by the Board of Trustees at its Nov. Newswise - Marie Lynn Miranda, the former provost of the University of Notre Dame and a leader in the drive to make higher education more inclusive, has been named chancellor of the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) and a vice president of the University of Illinois System.

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