Cybele Raver

Cybele Raver is the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Vanderbilt University and the Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology and Human Development at Peabody College.
Raver previously served as Deputy Provost at New York University, where in addition to serving as the provost liaison for several institutes across NYU, she also played a key role in strengthening the university’s reputation and marketing position by upping the standards of faculty hiring, advancement, tenure, and retention. At NYU, Raver also held the positions of Senior Vice Provost for Academic Analytics and Graduate Academic Affairs, and Vice Provost for Faculty and Research Affairs. She was also the Director of the Institute for Education Sciences-funded Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training (IES-PIRT) and the inaugural Director of the Institute of Human Development and Social Change. She was a faculty member at NYU for 13 years.
During her career, Raver has received awards from the American Psychological Association and the William T. Grant Foundation, among other organizations, and has been granted support from the MacArthur Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation, in which she garnered more than $24 million in funding. Raver led her own federally funded research laboratory for more than 20 years before joining NYU’s Office of the Provost, and her research focuses primarily on early learning and development within the contexts of poverty and public policy.  She has also held faculty positions at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy and Cornell University’s Department of Human Development.
Beyond her roles in higher education, Raver advises various local and federal government agencies, working with them to promote healthy development and learning among children ranging from birth to the third grade.