“Pacific's student-centered mission, emphasis on diversity and inclusion, striving for academic excellence and community engagement are all values and goals that I share and will seek to foster as provost.”īefore joining Scripps, Claremont McKenna and Pitzer as an assistant professor of biology in 2000, she was a post-doctoral research scientist at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and an assistant professor at North Central College in Illinois. “I look forward to working closely with a team of leaders who are innovative and committed to making Pacific the nation’s best student-focused comprehensive university,” Edwalds-Gilbert said. She will have direct responsibility for the university’s nine schools and colleges across the three campuses in Stockton, Sacramento and San Francisco, more than 1,250 faculty and staff and 6,300 students. She is, quite simply, precisely who we were seeking: a positive, optimistic and forward-looking leader who practices clear, constant, respectful and trustworthy two-way communications with all stakeholder groups – faculty, students, deans, Regents and Cabinet – and a higher education thought leader who places a premium on collaboration, innovation and – most importantly – the success of her students.”Īs provost, Edwalds-Gilbert will be working side-by-side with faculty, deans, staff and the President’s Cabinet on building new and innovative curriculum and improving all dimensions of the student experience to increase the success of Pacific students.
“I’ve gotten to know Gretchen during our search process. Edwalds-Gilbert to the Pacific family as the leader of our academic enterprise,” said Pacific President Christopher Callahan. She also is a visiting scientist at the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Warsaw Institute for Genetics and Biotechnology in Poland. in biology from Swarthmore College, she is a biology professor on the faculties of Scripps, Pitzer and Claremont McKenna. from Weill Medical College of Cornell University/Sloan-Kettering Institute and a B.A. She also has extensive experience working across all five of the Claremont schools, including serving as faculty director of the Claremont Faculty Leadership Program.Ī molecular biologist who earned a Ph.D.
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