BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Jonathan D. Green, dean of the college and vice president for academic affairs at Sweet Briar College in Sweet Briar, Va., has been named provost and dean of the faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University. In addition to this administrative appointment, he will also serve the University as professor of music. Green succeeds Beth Cunningham, who left the University last year to become executive officer at the American Association of Physics Teachers.
Illinois Wesleyan President Richard F. Wilson announced Green’s appointment, which will be effective August 1, 2011.
“I am delighted to welcome Jonathan Green to the University,” said Wilson. “Dr. Green has a deep and abiding commitment to the liberal arts and brings valuable experience from his eight years leading the faculty at Sweet Briar.”
Green’s selection came at the conclusion of a national search that began in the fall of 2010. He has served as dean of the college and vice president for academic affairs at Sweet Briar since 2004. His previous administrative roles included appointments as department chair and associate dean. Dr. Green joined the Sweet Briar faculty in 1996 as assistant professor of music and was promoted to full professor eight years later.