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Assistant Provost for Faculty Development
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2 Whitney Avenue (Whitney Grove Square Bldg), Suite 400, Room 458
203-436-8905
Lakia M. Scott serves as Assistant Provost for Faculty Development. She advances university-wide priorities related to faculty success, professional development, mentoring, academic leadership, and institutional engagement, and develops strategies and programs that support faculty across career stages.
As Assistant Provost, Lakia provides strategic leadership for faculty onboarding, leadership development, and organizational climate initiatives. She works with senior academic leaders, deans, faculty, and administrative units across Yale. Her portfolio includes New Faculty Orientation, faculty mentoring initiatives, and work related to Yale’s Faculty Climate Survey, as well as contributions to university processes related to faculty appointments, promotion, tenure, and academic advancement. Scott serves on the Executive Steering Committee of the Faculty Advancement Network (FAN), contributes leadership to Yale’s engagement with the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU), and serves on the Steering Committee for Yale’s Community Engagement initiative, supporting university-wide efforts to strengthen collaboration and deepen connections across Yale and with the broader New Haven community.
Scott also leads ASCEND (Alliance for Scholarship, Collaboration, Engagement, Networking & Development), Yale’s university-wide initiative to strengthen sustained academic partnerships with historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). She provides strategic direction for a portfolio that includes faculty research collaborations, fellowships, teaching innovation initiatives, and student research opportunities.
Before joining Yale in 2023, Scott was a tenured Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Graduate Program Director at Baylor University, where her responsibilities spanned graduate education, academic program leadership, research, and community-engaged initiatives. Her scholarship focuses on urban and multicultural education, literacy, culturally responsive pedagogy, and educational equity, and she has authored or co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications.
Scott holds a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of North Carolina (Charlotte), an MEd in Reading from Prairie View A&M University, and a BA in Journalism from Texas Southern University. She is active in national organizations such as the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Association of Higher Education (ASHE). She currently serves as President of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME).
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