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Dr. Tanjula Petty has over 18 years of extensive higher education experience. Dr. Petty has served as a Chief Academic Officer in Alabama and Georgia. She is an accomplished, collaborative, energetic, experienced, and a Lean Six Sigma servant leader with extensive experience in a multiplicity of areas in higher education, including but not limited to, academic and student affairs, diversity, enrollment management, institutional effectiveness and research, fiscal accountability, facilities planning, public relations, assessments, strategic planning, student learning outcomes, and accreditation standards. Additionally, she serves as an evaluator for SACSCOC.

She completed her doctoral studies at ASU and was inducted into the Alpha Gamma Chi Honor Society; receiving the 2013 Distinguished Dissertation Award presented by the Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools (CHBGS) and ProQuest, and joined the ranks of award recipients in the ProQuest “Hall of Scholars”.

Dr. Petty’s research and teaching interests focus on accountability in higher education first generation students, leadership, motivational factors of at-risk students, student success, and the benefits of educational pathways.