Faculty Affairs Team

Judy Walker heads the Faculty Affairs area in the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor, providing leadership on activities, initiatives, and policies that support faculty careers, enhance faculty productivity, recognize faculty excellence, cultivate academic leadership, promote an inclusive campus climate, and advise on faculty rights and responsibilities on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. She provides professional development, community, resources, communication and support to academic leaders across campus both informally and through the Faculty Affairs College Liaisons group, DEO and Associate Deans Update emails, the DEO Leadership Series, the Associate Deans Leadership Series, and FLAIR (Faculty Leadership in Academia: from Inspiration to Reality).

Walker also serves as Nebraska’s representative to the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Vice Provosts for Faculty Affairs group. Through this group, she coordinates Nebraska’s participation in the BTAA Academic Leadership Program, DEO Seminar, and Deans Leadership Program.

A mathematician by training, Walker is a leader in the national mathematics community, currently serving on the Board of Trustees of the American Mathematical Society. She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, the Association for Women in Mathematics, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.