Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to inform members of the York University community that Chloë Brushwood Rose will commence a three-year term as vice-provost, teaching and learning on July 1.
Chloe Brushwood Rose
Professor Brushwood Rose is a faculty member in Education and currently serves as graduate program director in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies at York. She has previously served as associate dean academic in Education and as Chair of the Senate Committee on Academic Standards, Curriculum and Pedagogy (ASCP). At the core of all her administrative leadership and service activities is a commitment to strengthening the University's openness to a greater diversity of perspectives, programs and students.
Her research interests span several fields, including community-engaged research and education, media and arts-based education, and gender, feminist and sexuality studies. She holds a PhD from York University, an MA from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and is a registered psychotherapist.
Professor Brushwood Rose is co-author of Community-based Media Pedagogies: Relational Approaches to Listening in the Commons (Routledge, 2016), exploring how teaching and learning with digital media in community-based settings cultivates the experience of a "commons," or mediating space between self and world.
She is widely published in journals, including Psychoanalysis; Culture & Society; Qualitative Studies in Education; Visual Studies; the International Journal of Leadership in Education; and Gender and Education, and is the co-editor of a recent special issue of the Journal of Teaching and Learning, focussed on the impacts of COVID-19 for children, youth and education.
We are very excited to welcome Professor Brushwood Rose into this role at a pivotal time for teaching and learning development at York University. She and her team will support University-wide conversations about pedagogical advancement, secure external resources to support innovation, and celebrate outstanding exemplars and achievements in teaching and learning across the University and beyond. The vice-provost teaching and learning works closely with the Teaching Commons and collaborates with the Division of Students and Faculties to foster the growth of work integrated learning, capstone courses and other experiential education opportunities for York students.
Professor Brushwood Rose is succeeding Will Gage who will complete his final term as associate vice-president teaching and learning on June 30. I would like to sincerely thank Will for the enormous contributions he has made to York University in this role through a time of sweeping changes in higher education. He was ahead of his time in championing the purposeful development of technology enhanced learning, helping to establish York at the forefront of accelerating pedagogical trends. Will has led or supported myriad other initiatives such as the growth of experiential learning, development of the award-winning virtual student advisor now affectionately known as SAVY, enhancing supports for the scholarship of teaching and learning, and strengthening communication of teaching and learning achievements. The York community will continue to benefit from his contributions for years to come.
Please join me in welcoming Professor Chloë Brushwood Rose to the Division of the Provost & VP Academic, in the Office of Teaching and Learning. We are very much looking forward to working with her and benefitting from her leadership and experience.
Sincerely,
Lisa Philipps
Provost & Vice-President Academic
This story was originally featured in YFile, York University's community newsletter.
