Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Manfred H. M. van Dulmen is serving as UMBC’s Provost. The Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs maintains our community’s academic integrity by providing broad oversight of all instruction and research programs to ensure their quality and advancement.
Dr. van Dulmen comes to UMBC from Kent State University in Ohio, where he served as Senior Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate College. He started at Kent State as a faculty member in the Department of Psychological Sciences in 2004, and since then has served in numerous academic leadership positions at Kent State, including Interim Department Chair and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He led Kent State through the COVID-19 pandemic and developed strategies for enhancing graduate education and for supporting student mental health. He also led strategic planning in Academic Affairs, helped to enhance and promote research strength across all disciplines, and led efforts resulting in new collaborative degree programs in data science and cybersecurity, as well as in innovative micro-credential programs at Kent State.
Dr. van Dulmen is an award-winning scholar with a Ph.D. in family social science from the University of Minnesota. He has published more than 100 articles and book chapters, and edited or co-edited three books. He also founded and served as editor-in-chief of the Sage Publications journal Emerging Adulthood. His research interests include adolescent and young adult relationships and experiences, externalizing behavior problems and aggression, and measurement and methodology.