About

John Georgas serves as the Senior Vice Provost at Northern Arizona University (NAU) in Flagstaff, Arizona, responsible for the strategic and opearational leadership of the academic operations portfolio that encompasses the offices of Graduate and Professional Studies, Cline Library, University Advising, Office of the Registrar, Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity, Academic Affairs Marketing, Academic Affairs Business Analysts, and the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps programs.

In prior roles at NAU, he served as vice provost, interim dean for the College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences (now Steve Sanghi College of Engineering), the interim associate dean for the same, the associate director for Research and Graduate Programs for the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, the associate director for the Informatics and Computing program, and as the computer science program lead and associate chair for the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Georgas is a tenured professor, with research interests that include software and architectural visualization, self-adaptive software systems, domain-specific architecture and architectural styles, software engineering pedagogy and learning, and pedagogies that support underrepresented learners. His work has been supported by various funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and appears in national and international venues. His teaching has spanned courses across undergraduate and graduate levels in computer science and software engineering, with a focus on introductory computer science and programming, software engineering, and software architecture and design.

A first-generation college graduate from an immigrant Greek family, Georgas started as a community college student at Mt. San Jacinto College before earning his bachelor’s degree in computer science from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He then earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in information and computer science from the University of California, Irvine. He serves as chair of the Executive Committee for the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education’s Western Leadership Forum, is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the American Society for Engineering Education, and is an alumnus of the Harvard Institute for Management and Leadership in Education and the UC Berkeley Executive Leadership Academy.

Current CV in PDF (366KB; updated winter 2025)

Contact

Email: john [dot] georgas [at] nau [dot] edu

Office: Babbitt Administrative Center (51), room 201C

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