Margaret Ferguson, Ph.D. currently serves as Interim Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at IU Indianapolis. In this role, she provides leadership for the direction of faculty affairs and faculty life. Ferguson also supervises the development of programs and events that cultivate faculty talent and leadership, such as promotion and tenure programs, awards, funding, orientation, and mentoring. In addition, she coordinates IU Indianapolis’s involvement in the development of online degree programs.
Dr. Ferguson began her career with IU Indianapolis in 1996 as an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science. Over the years, she served as department chair and acting associate dean for academic affairs within the School of Liberal Arts. Ferguson was promoted to professor in 2014. Most recently, she served as IU’s assistant vice president for statewide academic relations. In this role, she was responsible for coordinating processes across all campuses for degree and program approvals. She also represented new degree programs and academic policies before the Indiana Commission on Higher Education.
Dr. Ferguson received her bachelor of arts degree in political science from the University of Southern Mississippi. She earned master’s and doctoral degrees in political science from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.
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