Seval Yildirim named Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence at University of Buffalo
Seval Yildirim, J.D., has been named Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence at the University at Buffalo. UB President Satish K. Tripathi and Provost and Executive...
Seval Yildirim, J.D., has been named Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence at the University at Buffalo. UB President Satish K. Tripathi and Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs A. Scott Weber announced Yildirim’s appointment.
The position serves as UB’s Chief Diversity Officer, reporting jointly to the President and to the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs.
“As a university committed to achieving social justice in all of our endeavors, we are delighted to welcome a scholar and leader with such an impressive record of advancing equity and inclusivity in higher education,” Tripathi said. “I have every confidence that Professor Yildirim, in this critical role, will harness her experience and creative vision to ensure that we continue translating our most cherished values into action and build upon UB’s reputation as a welcoming scholarly community that celebrates, and thrives on, our diversity of backgrounds, cultures and lived experiences.”
Enhancing campus diversity and promoting a university-wide culture of equity and inclusion are critical to UB’s goal of becoming one of the Top 25 public institutions in the nation. Within this context, Yildirim will lead and enable UB’s efforts to further develop a culture of equity and inclusion across all units of the university.
She will be responsible for assessing current initiatives and shaping a unified, comprehensive strategy for inclusive excellence that is aligned with UB’s mission and universitywide efforts to continue to cultivate innovation in the inclusive excellence space.
WittKieffer’s Charlene Aguilar and Shelley Arakawa led this search.
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