Interim President Jim Moran

Dr. Jim Moran, Interim President

Edinboro University

Dr. Jim Moran became Interim President of Edinboro University on June 1, 2011. He brings to Edinboro a diverse and successful background in higher education administration, coming here from the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE), where he served as Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs in the Office of the Chancellor.

Dr. Moran joined the Office of the Chancellor in 2005 and was appointed Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs in October 2008. In that position, he provided strategic leadership and direction for the Division of Academic and Student Affairs, which is responsible for overseeing academic program approval and review, faculty development, academic and student policy development, articulation and transfer policies and grants development for PASSHE, and for participating in Statewide Meet and Discuss with the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF).

Interim President Moran holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in psychology and history from Duke University, a Master of Science degree in psychology from the University of Oklahoma and a Ph.D. in family relations and child development from Oklahoma State University.

In addition to his responsibilities as Vice Chancellor, Dr. Moran serves on the advisory boards for the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and Pennsylvania’s Complete College America Initiative. He is Pennsylvania’s higher education lead for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and is a member of the group that is reviewing Pennsylvania’s Teacher Evaluation process. He also is a member of the state Department of Education’s Transfer and Articulation Oversight Committee, Pennsylvania’s Early Learning Council and the GEAR-UP Advisory Board. He serves as the lead for Pennsylvania’s participation in the international Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes project and on the program committee for the State Higher Education Executive Officers Higher Education Policy Conference and PASSHE’s Access to Success Initiative in partnership with EdTrust.

Previously, Dr. Moran served in the University of Tennessee System Office as Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs. He was responsible for coordinating the university effort to achieve regional re-accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and served as facilitator for special projects, developing a University Business Incubator, forming a statewide multi-university academic consortium in public health and acquiring federal funding for the University of Tennessee Center for Nutrition and Fitness. He also held numerous positions at the University of Tennessee, including Dean of the College of Human Ecology and Associate Dean for Research and Business Administration within the college. He was elected and served as the president of the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences on 2004.

Also, Dr. Moran headed Family Relations and Child Development at Oklahoma State University and served on the faculty at the University of Tennessee, Oklahoma State University, Virginia Tech University and the University of Oklahoma.

 President's Vita