Kim Eby, PhD

Dr. Kim Eby serves as vice provost for Faculty Affairs and Development. The office provides an intentional, integrated approach to supporting faculty in their scholarly and professional growth and success. In this role, she works to provide innovative career enhancement and recognition and implement evidence-based policies and practices for George Mason faculty of all career stages, roles, and appointment types. Contributing to a collaborative, dynamic, and thriving faculty community is central to George Mason mission.  

Eby, a community psychologist, joined the George Mason faculty in 1996. In 2002, Eby was awarded the George Mason Teaching Excellence Award. She served for nine years as the director of the Center for Teaching and Faculty Excellence and as associate provost for Faculty Development, providing programming, consultations, and professional development support to George Mason faculty and graduate students, with an emphasis on teaching and learning. Eby has collaborated with campus leaders on multiple institution-wide curricular, strategic, and leadership investments, such as the COACHE Faculty Engagement initiative, faculty and staff engagement programs, George Mason’s award-winning Students as Scholars program, the Leadership Legacy Program, and the Learning Environments Group.  

Eby has served in national leadership roles and is currently the past chair of the Committee on Faculty Affairs, which is part of the Association for Public and Land Grant Universities’ Council of Academic Affairs. She continues to present at national meetings and consult with individual institutions on topics such as leading institutional change, learning space design, interdisciplinary collaboration, fostering inclusive excellence, and other issues related to faculty, teaching, learning, and leadership. Her scholarly and professional interests include issues surrounding violence and gender, leadership, organizational development and change, and collaboration and community building across a variety of contexts. 

She earned her BA in psychology from Indiana University at Bloomington and her MA and PhD in community psychology from Michigan State University.

Education

PhD, Community Psychology, Michigan State University
MA, Community Psychology, Michigan State University
BA, Psychology, Indiana University at Bloomington