Michele Wheatly will step down as Syracuse University’s vice chancellor and provost to lead women’s leadership initiatives on campus, SU announced Monday.

Wheatly, who has served as provost since 2016, will serve as special adviser to Chancellor Kent Syverud beginning Jan. 6, 2020. She will assist the chancellor in raising the Atlantic Coast Conference’s academic profile.

Syverud will name an interim vice chancellor and provost in “the near future,” according to a Monday SU News release. SU will form a provost search committee in the spring semester.

During her time as SU’s provost, Wheatly has overseen the university’s $100 million Invest Syracuse initiative to support 100 new faculty hires.

“Now, I look forward to a new role, one that allows me to concentrate on issues that most matter to me personally and professionally, including paving the way for other women faculty members and spotlighting the scholarly contributions of the ACC,” Wheatly said in the statement.

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