Richard Reddick

Richard J. Reddick, Ed.D. is Senior Vice Provost for Curriculum and Enrollment and Dean of the School of Undergraduate Studies at UT Austin. Richard previously served as the inaugural Associate Dean for Equity and Distinguished Service Professor in the College of Education. He is also faculty co-chair of the Institute for Educational Management (IEM) and Bravely Confronting Racism in Higher Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He also served on UNESCO’s Countering Racism in Textbooks Committee. He teaches courses in Plan II Honors, Black Studies, and Educational Leadership and Policy, including a first year signature course, “Exploring UK Education” in Oxford, and a 2022 President’s Award for Global Leadership course in England. 

He conducts research on the experiences of faculty of color at historically White universities, mentoring, Black families in America, and work-family balance. He has co-authored and co-edited four scholarly volumes, published in leading educational journals and has had his work highlighted by NPR, BBC, CNN, Fortune, Nature, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Reddick has been an invited lecturer at Prairie View, Vanderbilt, NYU, Miami, and Indiana, and was a visiting professor at Harvard in 2018.