Fall Faculty Convocation
The Georgetown University Office of the President cordially invites you to the Fall Faculty Convocation featuring the “Aims of Education” address by Teresa A. Sullivan, Ph.D., President Emerita and University Professor Emerita, University of Virginia.
This fall ceremony provides a formal occasion to celebrate faculty members who have recently received promotion or tenure.
Monday, October 28, 2024
5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Gaston Hall, Healy Hall, Third Floor
About Teresa A. Sullivan, Ph.D.
Teresa A. Sullivan is President Emerita and University Professor Emerita at the University of Virginia. In her scholarly career as a demographer, she developed analytic techniques for the use of U.S. Census Public Use Samples and was an investigator on a large international sample survey. With her collaborators Elizabeth Warren and Jay Lawrence Westbrook, she led several original large-scale data collections of American consumer bankruptcy records. Their first analysis of the bankruptcy records, As We Forgive Our Debtors, received the Silver Gavel Award of the American Bar Association. Their second book, The Fragile Middle Class, received the Writing Award of the American College of Financial Services Lawyers. She recently chaired a National Academies panel to assess the quality of the 2020 Census. Dr. Sullivan has taught at the Universities of Chicago, Texas, Michigan, and Virginia, and has received five major teaching awards. Prior to coming to Virginia, she was the Executive Vice President and Provost, Chief Academic Officer, and Chief Budget Officer of the University of Michigan, and before that, she was Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs for the University of Texas System. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Michigan State University and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has been married for 53 years to emeritus law professor Douglas Laycock, and she is the mother of two and grandmother of one.
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