2025-26 BTAA Academic Leadership Program Fellows
The following academics are fellows of MSU’s cohort for the 2025-26 Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Academic Leadership Program.
Exploring Academic Leadership Series – Resources from Past Sessions
Resources from 2024-2025 Sessions
Session 1: The HLC wants to know what YOU know! (10/09/24)
Session 2: Basics of Parliamentary Procedures (11/20/24)
Creating and Sustaining a Respectful Work Environment Series
This series of workshops is intended for leaders (executive managers, deans, directors, chairs, and supervisors, level 12-17) from across the University to work together to improve the current climate and culture in their units and across the greater campus community.
Conversations with MSU Leaders
These sessions provide the President and Provost the opportunity to speak with deans, directors, chairs, executive managers, and staff supervisors level 15-17, to promote ongoing communication and to discuss current issues,
Ellen Moll
Ellen Moll was named Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies for the College of Arts & Letters in January 2024. Moll had served as Interim Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies starting in May 2023.
Sonja Fritzsche
Through her position of Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Administration in the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University where she has served since 2017,
2024-25 Mentors for Leadership Fellows
Introduction
As part of our Leadership Fellows Program, four MSU academic administrators serve as mentors to our fellows and work collaboratively on a project to benefit their colleges.
Brian Johnson
Brian Johnson (he/him) is assistant dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) for James Madison College at Michigan State University. In this capacity, he leads all DEI initiatives for the College.
M. Emin Kutay
Dr. M. Emin Kutay is a Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His expertise encompasses a wide range of topics in transportation infrastructure evaluation and management, with a particular focus on asphalt mixture material characterization (both experimental and modeling),
Sarah Prior
Dr. Sarah Prior is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology where she serves as the Undergraduate Program Director. She is also the Director of the Bailey Scholars Program at Michigan State University.