Christine M. Licata

Christine M. Licata is senior associate provost for the Rochester Institute of Technology, where she is responsible for coordination of curriculum review, approval, and accreditation processes; student learning outcomes assessment; and student retention and success initiatives. In addition, she provides oversight of assistant provost for undergraduate education, Office of the Registrar, honors program, study abroad, and K–12 partnership programs.

From 1998 to 2004 Licata served as a senior associate with the American Association for Higher Education in its New Pathways Project "Academic Careers for the Next Century," where she provided leadership and direction for all activities related to post-tenure faculty review and development, including oversight of a mini-grant program with thirty-five institutions engaged in the implementation and refinement of post-tenure review practices. She also directed a nine-campus study on the outcomes and impact of tenured faculty review practices. She has consulted with more than one hundred colleges, universities, and system offices on senior faculty review and renewal. Licata authored one of the first national reports in the country on the topic in 1984 and since that time has published widely on tenured faculty review.

Licata holds an undergraduate degree in business administration and a master’s degree in education from Canisius College. She received her doctoral degree in higher education from George Washington University.

Before joining the faculty at Rochester Institute of Technology and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in 1979, she held faculty and administrative positions with the Buffalo and Rochester City School Systems, Montgomery College, and Monroe Community College.