The Provost is the Chief Academic Officer who oversees the faculty, curriculum, and all the various academic affairs offices. The Provost works collaboratively within and outside academic affairs to promote, enrich and support a student-centered liberal arts experience based on an innovative and integrative education.
Jonathan Millen, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Provost Millen brings more than a decade of higher education administrative experience to the position. Prior to joining the Wheaton community, he served as the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of New England from 2019 to 2024 and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Rider University from 2016 to 2019, where he also served as Associate Dean for eight years. Jonathan earned his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1992) and joined the Rider faculty in the Department of Communication and Journalism in 1991. In 1997 he received Rider’s award for distinguished teaching and in 2000 the university’s award for distinguished service.
Millen has been an active member in the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences (CCAS) since 2011. He was elected to the Board of Directors in 2016 and served as president in 2022. He has facilitated higher education leadership seminars through CCAS, in person and virtually, for campuses across the country. He also is a past president of the New Jersey Communication Association and a member of the editorial board of the Atlantic Journal of Communication.
His research on conflict resolution has been published in Mediation Quarterly, Human Communication, and Human Systems. His work on political discourse appears in the Atlantic Journal of Communication, Studies of Communication in the 2012 Presidential Campaign, and You Shook Me All Campaign Long: Music in the 2016 Presidential Election and Beyond. Jonathan also has studied code-switching resulting in publications found in Human Communication and Communication and Immigration. Named to the Princeton Review’s Best 300 Professors, he has a passion for teaching a wide array of communication courses and a class on the social impact of rock and roll.
Office of the Provost
26 East Main Street
Park Hall
Wheaton College
Norton, MA 02766-2322
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 508-286-8212