The man who led East Carolina University for four years has been named the new dean of the University of Florida's College of Community Innovation and Education, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
"Dr. Grant Hayes' considerable experience as a top academic leader dedicated to inclusive excellence, student success, interdisciplinarity and community collaboration will help elevate CCIE as UCF advances," says Michael D.
Johnson, UCF's provost and executive vice president of Academic Affairs.
Hayes comes to UCF from ECU, where he served as interim provost and senior vice chancellor for Academic Affairs since 2019.
He was dean of the school's College of Education for four years.
Hayes is a professor in counselor education and has published and researched extensively on areas that include counseling children and adolescents, technological applications in counselor education, and character education and moral development in schools and youth settings.
He earned his bachelor's degree from Limestone College in South Carolina.
UCF's CCIE offers departments of Counselor Education and School Psychology, Criminal Justice, Educational Leadership and Higher Education, Learning Sciences and Educational Research, and Legal Studies, along with three schools: Global Health Management and Informatics, Public Administration, and Teacher Education.
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