Kim Grainger

Bio

Atty. Kimberly Grainger is the Associate Vice Provost for Academic Personnel and Policy.   Her primary roles within the office involve providing consultation to departments and/or colleges regarding compliance, clarity, and flexibility of rules on reappointment, promotion and tenure, post-tenure review, and professorships, collecting and reporting institutional data to the UNC system.  She also serves as a point of contact within the Provost’s Office for the Professors of Distinction policy and process, including working with the Office of University Advancement, college and department leadership, and the Provost.  Grainger also reviews scholarly reassignment, instructor qualifications, and phased retirement applications.  She engages in continuous process and/or policy improvement initiatives related to faculty, faculty recognition, and specific faculty related accreditation and assessment.

Grainger received a Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology from Hampton University. She received her Juris Doctor and Master of Public Health specializing in Health Policy and Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Attorney Grainger is licensed to practice law in North Carolina and New York and has taught Torts, Health Law, Wills and Estates and Immigration Law. Her research interests include health care reform, emerging issues in immigration law and the intersection between law, health, and science.  She is a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellow in Public Health Law and has also participated in the BRIDGES Women in Academic Leadership Fellowship.

She has previously held roles of Assistant Vice President of Academic Administration at New College of Florida and Associate Dean and Professor of Law at North Carolina Central University School of Law.

Grainger is passionate about innovation and technology as well as international educational projects.