Dr. Colin Potts, will become provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at Missouri University of Science and Technology

Dr. Colin Potts, vice provost for undergraduate education and professor of interactive computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, will become provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla on June 1st.
At Georgia Tech, Potts oversees the offices and programs that govern the entire undergraduate education experience. These include undergraduate research and innovation; Complete College America and retention initiatives; living-learning programs; academic, career, and pre-professional advising; tutoring and academic support; community engagement and service learning; and the Honors Program. Since becoming vice provost in 2012, the first-year retention has reached 96% and the six-year graduation rate is 90%.
Potts has grown the Georgia Tech Honors Program into a community of over 500 students that acts as an incubator for educational innovation and established a program to integrate service learning into community-based faculty research. As provost, Potts will oversee S&T’s academic programs as well as academic support, enrollment management and global learning operations.