Doug Hicks
Biography
Douglas Hicks is Senior Advisor for Academic Initiatives and a professor in the religion department at Colgate University. As Provost and Dean of the Faculty from 2012-2015, Hicks led the four academic divisions of Colgate’s faculty, as well as university libraries, information technology, athletics, museums, international initiatives, and the office of equity and diversity. With President Jeffrey Herbst, he was a principal architect of the university’s strategic plan, Living the Liberal Arts, and he led the successful implementation of the plan’s academic priorities: internationalization, technological innovation, civic engagement, and pedagogical development. Hicks was formerly professor of leadership studies and religion in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond, where he taught from 1998 until 2012. As founding director of Richmond’s Bonner Center for Civic Engagement, he built a staff team of a dozen members to promote community-based learning, civic partnerships, and applied research on public issues. He also stewarded a major gift for, and led the development and launch of, the University of Richmond Downtown initiative. He received an Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia (SCHEV), the commonwealth’s highest recognition for professors.EDUCAUSE Presentations
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