Janna Vice
- Senior Fellow for Policy Development and Director, Kentucky Graduate Profile Academy, Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education
Janna Vice is the director of the Kentucky Graduate Profile Academy for the Council on Postsecondary Education. She leads an Academy team at all 24 Kentucky public institutions—focused on essential employability skills for all graduates. She is provost emerita and professor emerita at Eastern Kentucky University (EKU). As provost, she established an ongoing “assurance-of-learning" program, engaging faculty in continuous improvement of academic programs. As a result, EKU earned the 2014 CHEA Award for outstanding institutional practices in student learning outcomes (awarded by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation). Vice completed the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Management and Leadership in Education program, received her doctorate at the University of Kentucky, and has earned awards for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service. She has served on Kentucky’s board of education, overseeing K–12, and she is an active trustee at Alice Lloyd College, one of America’s nine official “work colleges.”
Events
The New Momentum to Make College Civic Learning Universal
Charles Ansell, Catherine Copeland, John Lane, Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, Jeff Rosen, Janna Vice
A movement for universal civic learning is gaining both policy leadership and campus-level commitment across all sectors in postsecondary education. But can it prevail against a dominant narrative that sees higher education as “job-skills” only?