Janice Warner

Provost Janice Warner, Ph.D., is chief academic officer for Georgian Court and leads the university’s faculty and curriculum in the GCU School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Business and Digital Media, the School of Education and the Hackensack-Meridian Health School of Nursing. She was named to the chief academic post in early 2020.

Dr. Warner, named one of NJBiz’s Best 50 Women in Business for 2017, was most recently interim provost. Before that she was Dean of the GCU School of Business and Digital Media, where she was responsible for seven undergraduate majors and the MBA program. In that role, she expanded and revamped programs to meet industry demands, converted concentrations in finance, management and marketing into three new majors, and made global education a key focus of the student experience. She conducted and presented research on the merits of international, collaborative online learning projects in Tanzania and Bhutan, and in 2018 led GCU students on a business tour of Germany where they learned from professionals at Amazon, BMW and other companies.

Dr. Warner has also served as a full-time faculty member and held such leadership positions as chair of the Business Curriculum Committee.

Today, she is a member of the President’s Cabinet, leads the GCU Provost’s Council, and has a leadership role on the university’s Steering Committee for Strategic Planning. She is also a member of GCU’s Middle States Reaccreditation Steering Committee. She is active with the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP), serves on the board of directors of the Northeast Business & Economics Association (NBEA), and is the president of the New Jersey Collegiate Business Administration Association (NJCBAA). Dr. Warner is also co-author of GCU’s Strategic Enrollment Plan, a critical element in the university’s Strategic Compass.

Dr. Warner, who has degrees from Columbia University (B.S. and M.S., electrical engineering) and Rutgers University (M.B.A., Ph.D., management), came to academia from industry, where she maintains strong ties. A former director for Telcordia Technologies, she also serves on the board of directors for the Monmouth Ocean Development Council and the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce and participates in the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce.