Jeffrey Johnson, dean of the Insalaco College of Arts and Sciences at Marywood University in Scranton since 2020, has been named vice president and dean of academic affairs for Pitt’s Bradford and Titusville campuses.

Johnson, who will begin his new position on July, will be the chief academic officer and oversee the academic component of life at Pitt–Bradford and Pitt–Titusville, including curriculum review and planning, faculty hiring and development, academic support services, and academic-related campus programming. David Fitz, vice president of institutional integration and community, has been filling that role in an interim position for the past two years. He will remain at Pitt-Bradford.

“Jeff’s previous academic leadership has positioned him well to serve and succeed as our chief academic officer and help us rise to new levels of academic excellence,” said Richard Esch, president of the two campuses.

Before his time at Marywood, Johnson spent 22 years at the University of Bridgeport, Conn., where he began as a member of the music faculty in 1998 and eventually became associate dean of the college of art and sciences in 2018.

A native of Jamestown, N.Y., Johnson earned his bachelor of music in composition from Ithaca (N.Y.) College and a master of arts in composition from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., before completing his doctor of musical arts in composition at Boston University.

He began his career as the associate director of artistic education and chair of the music theory department from 1994 to ‘98 at the Boys Choir of Harlem.