Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
Dr. Lisa Armour joined Maricopa County Community College District as its Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, assuming her position in December 2023. As MCCCD’s second-highest-ranking executive and chief academic officer, she has direct oversight and strategic responsibility for Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, and Institutional Effectiveness, ensuring that programming aligns with the District's academic mission and goals. In addition, she ensures operational success by overseeing core business functions, including Information Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Education, Enterprise Performance, and Finance.
A transformational leader, Lisa is dedicated to meeting students where they are and bringing about the conditions necessary for their success. Before accepting her current role, she served as a vice president at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida, the multi-campus community college that transfers more students to the University of Florida than any other.
Lisa led strategic planning at Santa Fe and directed integrated planning and assessment to ensure the excellence and continuous improvement of academic programs, student support services, and operations. She also provided strategic direction for Information Technology Services Institutional Research.
As Santa Fe College’s Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Lisa led a team of faculty, staff, and administrators dedicated to ensuring student success across associate degrees and certificates; applied baccalaureate degrees; early-college high school programs; and continuing education, workforce development, and customized training programs.
Lisa is a former professor of mathematics and dean of mathematics at Valencia College, Florida’s second-largest community college. As a faculty governance leader at Valencia, she was an integral part of the team that created the Teaching and Learning Academy, which provides a national model of excellent faculty support at a learning-centered college. Lisa led two Valencia College collaborations with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, one to promote the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) through the development of a national community of practice and one to design and implement Statway, an accelerated math pathway from Beginning Algebra through College Statistics.
As winners of the 2011 and 2015 national Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, respectively, Valencia and Santa Fe are among those top colleges whose students achieve the highest and most equitable rates of learning, completion, and labor market outcomes. Lisa is a League for Innovation in the Community College Representative and was a member of her regional Chamber’s Economic Development Committee. Her community engagement includes board service with the United Way of North Central Florida, a Community Partnership School, and the Early Learning Coalition.
With a doctorate in industrial engineering from the University of Central Florida, Lisa is a design thinker and champion of practical solutions. With bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics from Rollins College and the University of Florida, she is a disciplined problem-solver. Lisa is an alumna of the Aspen Institute’s Presidential Fellowship program who leads for opportunity, equity, and excellence.