Eric Link
Eric Link currently serves as provost and senior vice president for academic and student
affairs at the University of Houston Downtown, a public, comprehensive institution
of more than 15,000 students. In his role as provost, Link provides leadership for
the academic affairs, student affairs, and enrollment management operations of the
university, as well as the university library and the offices of institutional research,
data analytics, assessment, and accreditation.
Prior to Houston, he served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Purdue
University Fort Wayne, and before that he served as associate dean of the College
of Arts and Sciences and chair of the Department of English at the University of Memphis.
He also served as the head of the Department of Language and Literature at North Georgia
College and State University, in addition to a variety of other administrative roles.
Link earned his Ph.D. in American literature from Purdue University. An award-winning
teacher and scholar, he is widely published in his field, with ten authored or edited
volumes and over fifty essays. He has twice served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar,
most recently at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland (2012), and before that
in Lutsk, Ukraine (2008).
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