Brian Power

Vice-Provost, and Associate Vice-President, Academic and Deputy Provost

Quality Assurance Information and Resources
Department of Music Profile

Brian E. Power became Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President, Academic in July 2018. Reporting to the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, he is a member of Brock’s Senior Administrative Council, the Council of Academic Deans, the Provost’s Cabinet, and numerous Senate and administrative committees and working groups, representing the Provost when required. He was granted the additional designation of Deputy Provost in 2023.

As a key advisor to the Provost, the position of Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President, Academic focuses primarily on academic program Quality Assurance (including all cyclical reviews, new program proposals, program discontinuations and major modifications). It provides vision, leadership, and support to the University in all aspects of Brock’s Institutional Quality Assurance Processes (IQAP), serving as the University’s key contact for academic quality assurance, both internally (via the Senate Academic Review Committee) and externally (with the Ontario Universities Council on Quality Assurance [Quality Council] and the provincial Ministry of Colleges, Universities, Research Excellence and Security).

Other areas of the portfolio include:

  • Provostial oversight of University Faculty Relations
  • Oversight and support for annual Faculty processes such as tenure and promotion, faculty member annual/biennial reports, and academic leaves
  • Chair of the Advisory Committee on Non-Credit Studies
  • Chair of the Brock University Space Advisory Committee
  • Convenor of regular meetings of the Associate Deans

Power has previously served Brock as Associate Dean (Student Affairs & Curriculum) in the Faculty of Humanities (2012-2018), and as Chair of the Department of Music (2005-2011). He first joined Brock in 1995 as a part-time Instructor in the Music and completed his PhD in Musicology at the University of Toronto in 1999. He was appointed Associate Professor with tenure in 2003 and Professor in 2017. Outside Brock, he is an early music scholar, choral and solo tenor, and violinist. He is also a member of the editorial board of Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music/Revue Canadienne de Musique and is a past Chair of the Standing Committee of Institutional Members of the Canadian University Music Society/Société de musique des universités canadiennes.