Dr. Robbie Totten serves as Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at American Jewish University (AJU). Since 2018, he has held the role of Chief Academic Officer, working closely with deans, faculty, academic administrators, and staff to guide the development and operations of AJU’s for-credit and degree-granting academic programs. These include offerings within the Jewish Learning Experience, the Masor School for Jewish Education and Leadership, and the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies. In recent years, Dr. Totten has played a pivotal role in launching a rapidly expanding portfolio of online academic programs at AJU, making the university’s distinctive Jewish-themed offerings accessible nationwide, and in reestablishing doctoral-level studies, the university’s first such offerings since the 1970s. He has also helped lead a reimagining of AJU’s undergraduate programs, focusing on unique Jewish-centered pathways, including a B.A. completion track in Jewish Early Childhood Education and online, for-credit college courses for high school students delivered through synagogue-based cohorts. Under his leadership, the Office of Academic Affairs has prioritized student-centered innovation and the development of future educators, leaders, and professionals in the Jewish community. He also serves as AJU’s Accreditation Liaison Officer (ALO) to the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC) and led the University through its comprehensive reaffirmation of accreditation review in 2023–2024, which resulted in AJU receiving an eight-year reaffirmation of accreditation. Dr. Totten joined AJU in 2014 as Chair and Assistant Professor of the then Politics & Global Studies Department and currently holds the rank of Associate Professor. Before AJU, he held academic appointments as a Visiting Assistant Professor of International Relations at UC Santa Barbara, a Lecturer in Political Science at UCLA, and a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UC San Diego. His research has been published in academic journals and public policy edited volumes, with areas of expertise including higher education administration, international relations and security, U.S. immigration policy, and the American Founding. Most recently, he authored an article for AJU’s The Project on Allyship to Combat Antisemitism, drawing on the history of Jewish immigration advocacy to offer insights for today’s Jewish leaders on navigating allyship with other identity groups. Dr. Totten earned his bachelor’s degree from Duke University and his master’s and Ph.D. in Political Science from UCLA. He was selected as a 2023–2024 ACE Fellow by the American Council on Education.