Dr. Jon Harbor is the Interim Chancellor for Purdue Global. He brings more than 20 years of organizational leadership experience to the role. In his prior position, Harbor served as senior advisor to the Provost at Purdue, where he was previously recognized with the University’s top awards for both undergraduate teaching and graduate mentoring. He has also served as provost at Purdue University Global, as provost at the University of Montana, and in diverse leadership roles at Purdue University, including AVP for Research, AVP for Teaching and Learning, and Executive Director of Digital Education.
As an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue, Harbor’s research and education initiatives have resulted in more than 150 peer-reviewed journal publications and three books and have been supported by grants from the NSF, EPA, NASA, and international research foundations. He is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Association of Geographers, and the Royal Geographical Society.
Harbor earned his BA in geography from the University of Cambridge (UK), his MA in geography from the University of Colorado, and his PhD in geological sciences from the University of Washington. He has served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar (New Zealand) and a European Union Marie Curie Fellow (Sweden), and in 2015 Stockholm University awarded him an honorary doctorate. Harbor’s leadership training included a yearlong fellowship with the American Council on Education.
