Started in 2017-18, the Leadership Fellows program creates partnerships between mentors (current administrators) and fellows (faculty at least 5 years post-tenure). This program involves both a shadowing experience and work on a project developed jointly between the mentor and fellow.
Bethan Cantwell is the Director of Institutional Research and an Assistant Director in the Office of Planning and Budgets at Michigan State University. In this role Bethan leads a team of analysts who provide timely and accurate analysis relating to student success,
Peter Berg is Professor of employment relations and Director of the School of Human Resources and Labor Relations at Michigan State University. His current research examines the implications of an aging workforce for organizations in the United States and Germany.
María Isabel Ayala is Director of the Chicano/Latino Studies Program and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. Ayala’s work calls attention to the intra-group diversity and capital of Latinx people by examining the relationship between their unique and complex racialization and sociodemographic experiences and behaviors.
Kirsten Tollefson is an Associate Dean in the Graduate School and a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University. Tollefson is a high-energy physicist whose research focuses on studying the fundamental particle nature of the universe.
Joanna Bosse is an ethnomusicologist and dance ethnographer committed to the notion that sustained artistic practice is a necessary component of optimal wellness for everyone. She is currently establishing a new research area at the intersection of ethnomusicology,
The following academics are fellows of MSU’s cohort for the 2020-21 Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Academic Leadership Program.
Prabu David is Dean of the College of Communication Arts and Sciences. From 2010 to 2015, he was Professor and Associate Dean at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University,
Sieglinde Snapp is a Professor of Soils and Cropping Systems Ecology in the Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences and Associate Director of the Center for Global Change and Earth Observations at Michigan State University.
Asgi Fazleabas, Ph.D. received his BS degree from California State University, Fresno and his PhD in Reproductive Physiology from the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign.