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As Senior Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, Emily Isaacs is a member of the Provost’s leadership team, leading a coordinated strategy for faculty search, advancement, and development. She oversees faculty recruitment, onboarding, recognition, and professional and leadership development, working in close collaboration with academic leaders to support faculty success and advance institutional priorities. Her work focuses on creating clear, effective pathways for faculty across ranks while fostering a supportive and inclusive academic environment.

Emily also directs the Office for Faculty Excellence (OFE), which supports faculty at all career stages in teaching, research, leadership, and service. Through a comprehensive and inclusive portfolio of programs, OFE advances both individual faculty development and the broader mission of Montclair State University.

Emily holds tenure in the Writing Studies department. Her research focuses on writing pedagogy and assessment, as well as teaching, learning, and administration in higher education. She has published widely on writing instruction and the state of writing programs at U.S. four-year institutions, with work appearing in journals such as Pedagogy, College English, Writing Program Administration, and the Writing Center Journal, as well as in the The Chronicle of Higher Education and multiple edited collections. She is the author of three books, including Writing at the State U (Utah State University Press), and is currently co-authoring Building Strong Students for Johns Hopkins University Press. She also writes on higher education leadership.

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Writing Instruction, Assessment and Writing Program Administration; Teaching and Learning in Higher Education; Academic Leadership Development

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