A bit of personal news, friends: I have accepted an offer to serve as Brock University’s new Vice Provost, Teaching and Learning from August 1: https://brocku.ca/brock-news/2022/06/brock-appoints-rajiv-jhangiani-as-new-vice-provost-teaching-and-learning/

As you may know, I have worked at KPU for a long time, starting originally in 2007. I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to support our university community in a variety of ways over the years. Naturally, I am most proud of KPU’s leadership in open education, but it has also been a special joy to support our educators through the pandemic and to work to redesign our support systems and programs to be more inclusive, supportive, and humane. Although I am sad to leave such a wonderful group of humans, I am gratified to leave the Teaching & Learning Commons in a position of strength and I have great confidence in their ability to continue to exceed expectations and to raise the bar for teaching and learning, under the leadership of my dear colleague Dr. Leeann Waddington, who will serve as interim AVP, Teaching and Learning.

I am so looking forward to joining the Brock community, where I will lead their Centre for Pedagogical Innovation as well as their Co-op, Career, and Experiential Education department. It will be a special joy to join forces with Giulia Forsythe, Matt Clare, and Cara Krezek and to collaborate with colleagues across the Ontario post-secondary community. My mandate will also include advancing equity within the university’s academic operations, which as you might imagine is an incredible enticing prospect for me. My role comes with a faculty appointment in Educational Studies, with a cross-appointment in Psychology, and so I am also excited about continuing my scholarly work.

Brock is a special place that cares deeply about teaching and learning and the student experience.  Its gorgeous campus is located within a UNESCO biosphere reserve in the Niagara region of Ontario, Canada, on the traditional lands of the Anishnaabe and Haudenosaunee. My conversations with my new teams as well as the leadership at Brock throughout the application process have been wonderful and incredibly warm and affirmed for me that this opportunity is very much in alignment with my values.

I look forward to continuing to work alongside the Canada OER community in my new role.

With gratitude,

Rajiv