Richard J. Reddick

Richard J. Reddick, Ed.D. is the Senior Vice Provost for Curriculum and Enrollment and Dean of the Undergraduate College at The University of Texas at Austin. He previously served as Associate Dean for Equity and Distinguished Service Professor in the College of Education. Reddick is the faculty co-chair of the Institute for Educational Management (IEM) and Bravely Confronting Racism in Higher Education (BCR) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and served on UNESCO's Countering Racism in Textbooks Committee. He teaches courses and conducts research on faculty of color at historically White universities, mentoring, cultural taxation, Black families in America, and work-family balance. Reddick has authored and co-edited scholarly volumes, with his work featured on NPR, BBC, CNN, Fortune, Nature, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Reddick has been a visiting professor at Harvard, invited lecturer at various universities, and co-hosts the NPR podcast, "Black Austin Matters." A first-generation collegian, Pell Grant recipient, and UT Austin and Harvard graduate, Reddick is also the author of "Restorative Resistance in Higher Education: Leading in an Era of Racial Awakening and Reckoning" (Harvard Education Press, 2023). He's a dad of two, husband, son, and brother, and co-founded the first public Montessori school in East Austin. Reddick serves on the board of Montessori For All and the Austin Advisory Board for IDEA Public Schools. He has appeared on game shows, including Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, and Who Wants to be a Millionaire?