Erin Krupka appointed adjunct administrator in the dean’s office

Associate professor Erin Krupka is taking on the role of adjunct administrator in the University of Michigan School of Information’s dean’s office. Interim Dean Elizabeth Yakel made the announcement Tuesday. The appointment was effective January 1, 2023. 

As adjunct administrator, Krupka becomes a member of the leadership team, ex-officio on the Dean’s Advisory Committee, and will work with associate dean for faculty Tiffany Veinot to become an expert in the promotion and tenure processes, faculty renewal and appointments, faculty activity reports, dual career issues and other faculty affairs reports and activities. She will also interact with the Provost’s Office on behalf of the faculty.

“This temporary growth in the leadership team is being done now to ensure  smooth succession, as associate dean Veinot will be going on sabbatical July 1,” says Yakel. “Faculty affairs is an area critical for the health of the school. In July, Krupka will assume the role of associate dean for faculty for a three-year period.”

When the need to ensure continuity in faculty affairs leadership emerged, Yakel says Krupka was the natural choice to fill the gap. 

“As director of the doctoral program, Erin has demonstrated an attention to detail and an understanding of the university as an institution that will translate well into the faculty affairs role,” says Yakel. “I have every confidence that she will navigate the faculty affairs role well for the benefit of all UMSI faculty.”

Krupka, an experimental behavioral economist, joined the UMSI faculty in 2009. Her research identifies ways to motivate people to engage in behaviors that benefit the organization or community, and ways to modify community practice to achieve organizational shifts in values and culture.

She has received funding from the NSF, the Donoghue Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as well as numerous grants from the University of Michigan.  She is the recipient of the School of Information’s Teaching Award, the Honored Instructor Award from the University of Michigan Housing, and was nominated for University of Michigan’s Golden Apple Teaching Award twice.  She is also a CeMENT Mentor for Faculty in Doctoral Programs.

Since 2019 Krupka has been academic director of the doctoral program, and was recently reappointed in this role. She will continue to oversee the doctoral program and orient a new doctoral program director in the coming months.