Julia Chinyere Oparah Named Provost at the University of San Francisco
Julia Chinyere Oparah was named the new provost and vice president of academic affairs at the University of San Francisco, and she brings a history...
Julia Chinyere Oparah was named the new provost and vice president of academic affairs at the University of San Francisco, and she brings a history of scholarship, administrative leadership, and a commitment to justice to the university. Oparah comes from Mills College, where she had been provost and dean of the faculty since 2017 and a professor of ethnic studies since 1997.
“I am both deeply honored and excited to serve the USF community as its next provost,” Oparah said. “I have long admired USF’s commitment to equity and social justice, and consider USF’s distinctive Jesuit educational principles — particularly cura personalis, care of the whole person — as central to what USF does so well in educating students who will, as the university promises, ‘change the world from here.’”
“Provost Oparah rose to the top of a deep and distinguished pool of candidates,” said USF’s Interim Provost Tyrone H. Cannon, who chaired the search committee and who will return to his role as USF’s library dean as Oparah joins the university.
“In both her scholarship and administrative decisions, she has exhibited a deep commitment to collaboration and partnership, gender and racial equity, global social justice, and the transformative power of education,” said Cannon.
Suzanne Teer, Alejandra Gillette-Teran, Julia Bradley and Jean Dowdall led this search.
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