We are pleased to announce that Chad Slieper has been promoted in rank to Senior Academic Professional. 

Chad joined OUE in 2024 and currently serves as Faculty Co-Director of the Leaders in Progress and Service Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), reporting to Dr. Roberta Berry, Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. Before joining OUE, Chad served as director of the Law, Science, and Technology (LST) program in the Carter School of Public Policy; he assumed the directorship of the LST program in 2019 and continues in that role on a part-time basis, reporting to Dr. Cassidy Sugimoto, Tom and Marie Patton Professor and School Chair, Carter School of Public Policy, while serving as Faculty Co-Director of the QEP. 

Chad earned a Bachelor of Science in Public Policy with highest honor from Georgia Tech and a Juris Doctor from Emory University School of Law. His experience in higher education before joining Georgia Tech in 2019 included appointments with The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, where he served as Chief, ad interim, of Clinical Ethics, and with Emory University School of Law, where he directed a program in Global Health Law and Policy. 

Chad is an award-winning teacher in the fields of law and medical ethics. His teaching awards include a 2022 CIOS Award, recognizing Georgia Tech's top fifty instructors as measured by the course instructor opinion survey, and a Distinguished Teaching Award from the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. His other awards include the 2013 Outstanding Alumni Award of the Carter School of Public Policy. 

Chad’s contributions since joining OUE in 2024 include co-directing the development and planning effort for Georgia Tech’s next QEP, Leaders in Progress and Service. Together with fellow Faculty Co-Director, Dr. Kate Williams, Chad recently presented the plan developed by the QEP leadership team and QEP Development and Planning Committee (DPC) at the official QEP launch event on April 1 and before the site visit team for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) on April 8. 

Please join us in congratulating Chad on his promotion in rank!