Junius Gonzales

​Junius J. Gonzales joined the New York Institute of Technology as provost and vice president for academic affairs in 2018. He previously served in the University of North Carolina (UNC) system as senior vice president for academic affairs (the chief academic officer for 16 universities and one high school with total enrollment of nearly 240,000 students) beginning in 2015, as well as interim president from January to March 2016. While at UNC he was responsible for overseeing academic planning and budgeting, student affairs, sponsored programs and research, faculty development, licensure and institutional research, and data and analytics. Gonzales also served as provost and vice president for academic affairs of the University of Texas at El Paso and was the founding dean of the college of behavioral and community sciences and executive director of the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute at the University of South Florida. Gonzales earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Brown University, an MD with honors from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA with honors from the University of Maryland. A psychiatrist by training, he completed his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health.