Immediate Past Provost

Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg was Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs from 2019 until 2024, when she became president of the University of Tampa. At TCU, Dr. Dahlberg guided the Office of Research to more than double the external research expenditures to more $16 million, and enhanced academic advising, tutoring, and centralized accommodated testing to better support students. She oversaw the successful startup and full accreditation of the Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at TCU, including its first graduating class, 100 percent placement of all students, and securing of a $50 million naming gift. She played a key leadership role on the Campus Readiness Task Force to guide classroom instruction and delivery during the pandemic to maintain academic progression as safely as possible.

Provost Dahlberg and her team ably led TCU through its reaffirmation of accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges & Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). The multi-year project resulted in zero areas of concern across 73 required standards.

She supported the first-year launch of the Chancellor’s and Board of Trustees’ Race & Reconciliation Initiative (RRI) to study TCU’s experiences with racism, slavery and the Confederacy, and supported three years of focused efforts to build relationships with Native American and Indigenous Peoples at TCU. She worked collaboratively with her colleagues to institutionalize both initiatives within the Office of Diversity & Inclusion.

Dr. Dahlberg has a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and earned both a master’s degree and Ph.D. in computer engineering from North Carolina State University