Meet our Staff
Allen Dupont, PhD
Associate Vice Chancellor of Institutional Effectivness and Decision Support
adupont@uthsc.edu
901.448.1526
Allen Dupont, PhD is the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s (UTHSC) Associate Vice Chancellor of Institutional Effectiveness and Decision Support. Dr. Dupont provides leadership and oversight of campus-wide and program/college efforts in regional and programmatic accreditations to the Office of Institutional Research and the Office of Institutional Effectiveness.
Dr. Dupont has current knowledge of our institution’s regional accreditor,
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges
(SACSCOC), as well as first-hand knowledge, experience, and expertise with the variety
of professional program accreditors with whom our professional programs work, and
the program reviews required of our programs without professional accreditors.
Dupont obtained a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Rice University, a Master of
Science in economics from Louisiana State University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in
economics from Louisiana State University. He joined UTHSC in 2012 as the director
of the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and the SACSCOC institutional accreditation
liaison. Previously Dupont has served as the director of assessment in the division of undergraduate academic programs at North Carolina State University, director of institutional research, planning, and assessment at Young Harris College.