Ann Vail has been selected as dean of the Graduate School, effective July 1, 2023. Vail comes to South Carolina from the University of Kentucky, where she currently serves as a professor in the Department of Family Sciences in the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment. She has a long career in academia: Vail got her start in the academy as a lecturer at Ohio State University in 1988 after six years as a public school teacher. From Ohio State, she headed to the University of Idaho in 1991