Dr. Holley Morris Roberts serves as the Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. Previously, she was the Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Director of The Graduate School. Dr. Roberts began her career in K-12 education and has taught at public and private schools. Dr. Roberts arrived at GCSU in 2005 as a Limited Term Instructor in the Department of Teacher Education in the John H. Lounsbury College of Education. Since that time, Dr. Roberts has earned tenure and rank as a Professor of Elementary Education and served in several leadership roles within the College of Education as the Director of Assessment & Accreditation, Interim Chair of the Department of Teacher Education, and Interim Associate Dean. In 2020, Dr. Roberts joined the Office of the Provost as the Interim Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Director of The Graduate School and in January 2022, she was selected to serve permanently in the role of the Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Director of The Graduate School. Since joining the Office of the Provost, Dr. Roberts has led several key initiatives and has co-led the development of the University’s Strategic Plan, Imagine 2030.
Dr. Roberts’ research includes critical literacy, higher education leadership, assessment and accreditation. Dr. Roberts has received the Teaching Excellence Award for Georgia College, is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and was nominated for the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum Dissertation Award. She has served as an accreditation reviewer for the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP), the Georgia Professional Standards Commission (GaPSC), and Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). She was the 2019-2020 President of the Georgia Assessment Director’s Association and in June 2020, she was appointed by Governor Brian Kemp to the Georgia Professional Standards Commission and serves as the Chair of Educator Preparation and Certification Committee. She is the co-founder of the Georgia College Women’s Leadership Faculty Fellows Program and serves as the ACE Women’s Network Institutional Representative for Georgia College. She has published several research articles and a book chapter and has received numerous grants.
She received her B.S. and M.Ed. in Early Childhood Education from Georgia College and her Ed.D. in Curriculum Studies from Georgia Southern University.