UConn’s School of Fine Arts Dean Anne D’Alleva has been named as the university’s interim provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, the school announced.
D’Alleva, who has served as fine arts dean since 2015, begins in her new post Friday. She replaces Carl Lejuez, who is set to become the executive vice president and provost at Stony Brook University in New York.
D’Alleva joined UConn in 1999 and will stay on as interim provost until a permanent provost is named later this year, according to Interim President Radenka Maric.
Maric said D’Alleva founded — along with Dean Kazem Kazerounian — the Krenicki Arts & Engineering Institute with a $5 million gift from John and Donna Krenicki. In addition, Maric said D’Alleva collaborated with the Human Rights Institute on a 2021 hiring initiative to create a research cluster in arts and human rights at UConn.
D’Alleva also established a partnership with the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum to host the graduate Arts Leadership & Cultural Management Program. She also serves on the board of directors of Hartford Stage.
