Provost and Chief Academic Officer of Carnegie Mellon University
James H. Garrett, is since January 2019 the university’s chief academic officer, responsible for leading CMU’s schools, colleges, institutes and campuses and is instrumental in institutional and academic planning and implementation. A member of the faculty since 1990, James H. Garrett, Jr. became Dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering in 2013. Immediately prior to that, he spent six years as head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.