Profile
As chief academic officer, the provost and senior vice president for academic affairs (SVP) oversees: the University curriculum and new curricular initiatives; faculty hiring and promotion; support for faculty research and teaching; and the administration of all academic departments, interdisciplinary and certificate programs, centers, colleges, graduate programs, study-abroad programs, the Athletics Department, Olin Library, the Office of the Registrar, and the Office of Institutional Research. The provost and SVP is a core participant in the University's budget development and strategic planning and has bottom-line responsibility for meeting budget targets for faculty compensation and for academic departments and programs, as well as athletics and the library.
Biography
Nicole Stanton joined the Wesleyan faculty in 2007. She received her Bachelor’s Degree from Antioch College and her M.F.A. in Choreography from the Ohio State University. As an artist and an educator, Nicole’s work explores the intersections between personal, cultural, and physical experiences with an eye towards celebrating the complexities of black cultures and creating platforms that cultivate community. Her artistic practice emphasizes collaboration, including work with historians, scientists, anthropologists, musicians and media artists.
Recently, her choreographic work was featured as a part of the New England Dance on Tour project and she was a featured speaker at Rutgers University’s Clemet E. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience series on Healing Movement. Awards for her choreographic works inlcude an Artist's Fellowship from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, a Threads interdisciplinary artist's residency from the Albers Foundation, and a New England Choreographer's grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts. She is on the Board of Trustees for the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut and an advocate for the New England Foundation for the Arts Regional Dance Development Initiative. Find out more at: http://nicolestanton.net/.