Devorah Lieberman is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Wagner College. She assumed this position in January 2004, having been the Vice Provost and Special Assistant to the President at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. Devorah received her Ph.D. in Intercultural Communication (1984) from the University of Florida and concurrently received her certification in Gerontology.

As Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Wagner College, Devorah oversees all academic, curricular, and student related elements of the College. She sees her primary role as furthering the academic excellence that exists at Wagner. Students graduating from Wagner College should have deeply engaged in learning a discipline that provides them with the skills, knowledge, and resources to continue with any of the following: graduate programs, academic professional programs, or successful workplace employment. Coupled with this strong academic base, every student graduating from Wagner should have deepened their commitment to contributing to their local, national and international communities around them in ways that enhance others’ lives. While at Wagner, she envisions every student having had opportunities through their classes and their co-curricular activites to contribute to the College, to the local community, to the greater metropolitan community, and to the international community.

As an academic administrator, Devorah sees herself as both an academician and an administrator. As an academic and a scholar she continues to publish in the higher education literature and to present in higher education venues. Her Publications have included edited books, chapters, journals and articles addressing institutional change, international studies, intercultural communications as well as faculty development. Her most recent publications have focused on: academic institutions as learning organizations, issues of diversity in higher education, and creating community based learning opportunities locally, nationally and internationally.

Her academic grounding in intercultural communication keeps her deeply connected to diversity issues and internationalization on her campus and throughout higher education. Her work with civic education is closely tied to her commitment to educating the whole student while connecting theory to practice. She believes that this connection furthers deep understanding of what it means to apply a discipline to the greater community while continuing these efforts later in life through a profession.