Dr. Alan Shepard recommended as candidate for Concordia president
A video presentation featuring Dr. Alan Shepard, the recommended candidate for Concordia’s next president and vice-chancellor, is now available on the university’s website.
The video provides Concordians with the opportunity to hear directly from Dr. Shepard, who was to make a presentation and answer questions at an open meeting of the Board of Governors and Senate April 24. A disruption by a small group of protesters prevented the open meeting from proceeding as planned.
However, members of the university community still have the opportunity to submit their written comments on Dr. Shepard by noon on May 1. Submissions should be signed and addressed to Danielle Tessier, Secretary to the Advisory Search Committee for a President and Vice-Chancellor, or submitted by email to: danielle.tessier@concordia.ca.
Once the formal recommendation of Dr. Shepard is finalized, it will be brought to the Board of Governors for consideration.
Watch the video presentation featuring Dr. Alan Shepard:
About Dr. Shepard
Dr. Shepard has been the provost and vice-president academic of Ryerson University since 2007, where as chief academic officer, he has oversight of academic policy, strategic planning and the university’s budget. He has led many significant initiatives over the last number of years, including the adoption of a comprehensive Academic Plan and the Provost’s Commission on Academic Structure.
He received his PhD in English from the University of Virginia and has held fellowships at The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C., and the University of Toronto’s Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies and Northrop Frye Centre for the Humanities.
Dr. Shepard’s research interests include English literary culture before 1800, the cultural relationship of early modern literature and science, and the impact of technology on how we communicate. In addition to having published scholarly books and articles, Dr. Shepard edited a bilingual Canadian academic journal for five years, during which time he substantially strengthened and renewed the editorial board, adding a number of prominent scholars of French from across Canada and internationally.