Co-Chairs
Sally Mason
Dr. Mason has served as the chief academic officer (provost) at Purdue University since 2001. Her responsibilities include planning, managing, and reviewing all academic programs at Purdue University’s West Lafayette and four affiliated branch campuses, oversight of all research and engagement activities on the West Lafayette campus, and coordination of the libraries, student services and enrollment, international programs, the graduate school and continuing education and conferences. Her office administers a variety of initiatives aimed at the continuous improvement of the academic and research climate at Purdue. Prior to entering administration, Dr. Mason was actively engaged in research focused on the developmental biology, genetics, and biochemistry of pigment cells and pigments in the skin of vertebrates.
Linda Katehi
Dr. Katehi currently serves as the John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering, and as such is its primary academic and administrative officer. The College of Engineering includes ten major degree areas with over 6,000 undergraduate students and more than 1300 graduate students. There are over 320 faculty members, including 15 members of the National Academy of Engineering, 80 Fellows in Engineering and Science societies, and 40 distinguished and named professors.
Christie Sahley
Dr. Sahley is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in the College of Science. She works closely with Science Counseling on a number of student issues, such as graduation requirements, credit transfers, readmissions, and change of degree objectives. She also works directly with the counselors in International Studies programs, and is the contact person for students entering the freshman Honors Program. Actively involved in the Women in Science Program, she works toward the recruitment and retention of women in the sciences. She also serves as the Faculty Representative to Purdue University Big Ten Athletics and is a member of the Athletic Affairs Committee. As a professor in the Department of Biological Science, her research focuses on associative learning, the way in which casual relationships are extracted from the environment and allow animals to modify their behavior on the basis of learned associations between cues and consequences.