ANN ARBOR—Nancy Cantor’s appointment as the University of Michigan’s provost and executive vice president for academic affairs was approved by the U-M Board of Regents at its July 17-18 meeting.

Her new appointment is effective Sept. 1. Cantor currently serves as vice provost for academic affairs-graduate studies and dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies at U-M. She is also a professor of psychology.

Cantor, who received her Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 1978 and her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1974, became assistant professor of psychology at Princeton and was promoted to associate professor in 1981.

In 1983, she came to the U-M as associate professor of psychology. She was area chairperson of personality psychology in 1984-88, was named professor in 1987, served as a research scientist in the Research Center for Group Dynamics in the Institute for Social Research in 1987-91, and was associate dean for faculty programs in the Rackham School of Graduate Studies in 1989-91. She left the U-M in 1991 to teach at Princeton, where she was chair of the Department of Psychology.