Dr. Jayne S. Reuben Name Inaugural Senior Associate Provost

Dr. Jayne S. Reuben has been appointed the inaugural Senior Associate Provost/Senior Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs and Community Engagement at Texas Southern University. A nationally respected academic innovator, Dr. Reuben brings extensive experience in faculty development, health professions education, and community-engaged institutional transformation.

In this new role, she will provide strategic leadership for faculty success across the university. Collaborating closely with deans, department chairs, faculty, and internal and external partners, she will help ensure that faculty have the resources and support needed to excel in teaching, research, and service. Her responsibilities will include faculty recruitment, onboarding, and retention as well as professional development, promotion and tenure, data and reporting, faculty relations, and governance. She will also collaborate with the community engagement team to sustain the University’s recently reaffirmed Carnegie Community Engagement Classification. In addition to her administrative duties, Dr. Reuben will serve on the faculty of the Joan M. Lafleur College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

Dr. Reuben earned her doctorate in Pharmaceutical Sciences, specializing in Pharmacology and Toxicology, from Florida A&M University’s College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Pathology at the University of Michigan Medical School.

Her interdisciplinary scholarship spans biomedical research, health professions education, and organizational leadership, consistently emphasizing sustainable structures that empower faculty, enhance student learning, and strengthen institutional accountability. Before joining Texas Southern University, she served as an Instructional Professor and Director of Instructional Effectiveness at the Texas A&M University College of Dentistry, where she advanced evidence-based teaching, curricular innovation, and faculty development. As a founding faculty member of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, Dr. Reuben played a key role in designing its integrated medical curriculum.

Dr. Reuben has also contributed to higher education governance as a Trustee of her undergraduate alma mater, Converse University, helping guide institutional strategy and long-term planning. At Texas Southern University, she will help shape the institution’s future by strengthening faculty pathways for advancement, elevating academic excellence, and expanding the university’s impact across Houston and beyond.