Orlando L. Taylor is currently Vice Provost for
Research, Dean of the Graduate School, and Professor of
Communications at Howard University. He has held many other
positions at Howard, including Dean of its School of Communication
and Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs.
Prior to
joining the Howard faculty in 1973, Vice Provost Taylor was a
faculty member at Indiana University. He also has served as a
Visiting Professor at Stanford University, Adjunct Professor at the
University of Pittsburgh and Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Dr. Taylor is a national leader in graduate education
and within his discipline. He is currently or has served previously
as a member of numerous national boards, including the Board of
Directors of the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), for which he
served as Board Chair in 2001. He is also a Past President of the
Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools and the National
Communication Association. He is a former member of the Advisory
Committee of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources of
the National Science Foundation and of the Advisory Council at the
National Institutes of Health. He is also the former president of
the Consortium of Social Science Associations and a current member
of the Board of Trustees of the University Corporation for
Atmospheric Research and the Oak Ridge Associated Universities Board
of Directors. He chairs the National Advisory Board for the Center
for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, a major
NSF-funded center at the University of Wisconsin.
As Graduate Dean at Howard University since 1993, Vice
Provost Taylor has played a significant role in assuring Howard's
continued national leadership in graduate education. Howard, a
richly diverse institution, produces more African American on-campus
Ph.D. recipients than any research university in the United States.
Vice Provost Taylor is a leader in several national initiatives
involving graduate education. He has been a particularly vigorous
advocate and spokesperson on topics and issues relating to access
and equity in higher education.tion.
Vice Provost Taylor has raised several million dollars
in research, training and program development grants from federal
and private sources during his career at Howard University.
Currently, he serves as PI on major grants from the National Science
Foundation to increase the production of minority Ph.D. recipients
in science, technology, mathematics and engineering (STEM) and in
the social, behavioral and economic (SBE) sciences; as well as from
the U.S. Department of Education to develop collaborative academic
and research programs between universities in Brazil and in four
European Union countries with Howard University and several others
in the United States. He is the author of numerous articles,
chapters, and books.
Vice Provost Taylor has earned honorary doctorates from
Purdue University, Indiana University, The Ohio State University,
Hope College and DePauw University. The American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association awarded him its highest award,
Honors of the Association, and the Alumni Association of the
University of Michigan awarded him its Distinguished Service Alumni
Award.ward.
Dr.
Taylor received his bachelor's degree from Hampton University,
master's degree from Indiana University, and Ph.D. degree from the
University of Michigan.
