Davy also will continue to serve as professor of English and woman’s studies and gender studies in the College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters.
Since joining UM-Dearborn in 2009, Davy has led Vision 2020, a collaborative academic planning process that helped identify and pursue a number of important priorities. That process contributed to the successful Higher Learning Commission reaccreditation visit and evaluation in the fall of 2013.
Davy has been instrumental in a number of important academic advances, including the creation of the College of Education, Health, and Human Services, implementation of the new budget model, and enhancements to the infrastructure for graduate studies enrollment planning.
“Kate understands how to achieve results in an academic setting and has made important and difficult decisions that have advanced the university,” said UM-Dearborn chancellor Daniel Little.
Before arriving at UM-Dearborn in 2009, Davy was dean of arts and sciences at Bentley University. She previously provost of Adelphi University, dean of the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, associate dean at the University of California-Irvine and dean at Alverno College.
Davy earned a Ph.D. and master’s degree in drama and performance studies from New York University.
