Ithaca College removes interim tag from provost

ITHACA, N.Y. — Ithaca College on Wednesday announced the appointment of Melanie Stein as provost and senior VP for academic affairs.

Stein had been serving as interim provost since Aug. 30 of last year, and in that time, demonstrated the leadership qualities and values essential to advancing the college’s academic enterprise, according to Ithaca College President La Jerne Terry Cornish.

“I am confident that Ithaca College will benefit from her continued service on behalf of our faculty and our students,” Cornish said in a release. “[Stein’s] experiences as an administrator, a scholar, and an educator in the classroom make her well-suited to lead the ongoing implementation of the Ithaca Forever strategic plan and to guide our academic community through the next phase of its evolution.”

A native Ithacan, Stein came to Ithaca College in 2019 as dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences and professor of mathematics after serving for the previous three years as dean of academic affairs at Trinity College in Connecticut. She had also served as interim dean of faculty, associate academic dean, and chair of the math department at Trinity.

Ithaca College on Wednesday also named Claire Gleitman as dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences going forward. She had served as interim dean of the school since last Aug. 30, replacing Stein when she became interim provost. Gleitman has nearly three decades of teaching, scholarship, and service to the school’s Department of Literatures in English, which she chaired for nine years.