Jordan Cofer has served as the vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean since July 2024. Cofer is a professor of English at the University of Minnesota Morris and is the author of The Gospel According to Flannery O’Connor, co-author of Reconsidering Flannery O’Connor and Writing the Nation: American Literature from 1865-Present, and is on the editorial board for The Flannery O’Connor Review. Cofer has previously served as associate provost at Georgia College, as well as the director of the Flannery O’Connor Institute for the Humanities. He has also held administrative positions of interim dean of arts and sciences, assistant vice president of academic affairs, and director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.
Additionally, Cofer serves as an instructor in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success, a counselor for the Council for Undergraduate Research, and was the previous chair of AAC&U’s Liberal Education and America’s Promise State Georgia. Cofer founded the journal, Undergraduate Research, and served on the executive board for the Georgia Undergraduate Research Consortium. He has been active working on high impact practices and innovative pedagogies, specifically undergraduate research.
Cofer lives in Morris with his wife, has two dogs, is a terrible chess player, and loves Spotify & Goodreads recommendations.
Reporting Units
- Academic Advising
- Academic Assistance
- Academic Center for Enrichment
- Briggs Library
- Career Services
- Center for Small Towns
- Community Engagement
- Disability Resource Center
- Division of Education (Michelle Page)
- Division of the Humanities (Stacey Aronson, Interim)
- Division of Science and Mathematics (Peh Ng)
- Division of the Social Sciences (Heather Peters)
- Grants Development
- Honors Program
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- Office of Academic Success
- Office of the Registrar
- UMN Morris Online Learning
- Summer Session