Jamshed Bharucha

Bharucha began his academic career at Dartmouth College, where he was John Wentworth Professor, and entered its academic administration as associate dean for the social sciences, eventually moving to deputy provost and then to become a dean of the faculty of arts & sciences.^[8][9] He was the first Indian American dean of a school at an Ivy League institution.^{[citation needed]} While in the Dartmouth administration, he established the Dartmouth Brain Imaging Center.^[15] His principal faculty appointment was in the department of psychological & brain sciences, but he also taught in the program in linguistics & cognitive science and the program in electroacoustic music (now called "digital musics").

As an academic administrator, he launched initiatives on teaching and research, as well as their integration in the form of active learning, encouraging undergraduates to get involved in research with their professors.^[16][17]

After spending 2015-2016 at Harvard following his time at Cooper Union, Bharucha was appointed distinguished fellow at Dartmouth, where he taught in two departments: education, and psychological & brain science.^[10] He then went to India; after his time at Sai University he returned to Dartmouth, where he teaches part-time and conducts research.^{[citation needed]} He also teaches part-time online at Sai University.^{[citation needed]}

Bharucha moved to Tufts in 2002 to assume the position of provost & senior vice president.^[18] As provost, Bharucha oversaw the seven schools, the Tisch College, the Institute for Global Leadership, the Fares Center and the Clinical & Translational Research Institute.^[6][19]

Bharucha launched the Summer Scholars program,^[20] which provides opportunities for undergraduate students to work on collaborative research with faculty across the university and its affiliated hospitals. He also launched the University Seminar,^[21] a cross-disciplinary course, open to undergraduate, graduate and professional students.

Bharucha was appointed as the twelfth president of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art effective July 1, 2011.^[22] His tenure at Cooper Union was marked by a financial crisis and tuition protests. An investigation by the New York State attorney general's office ensued into the institution's decision to charge tuition for the first time in its history and other financial decisions made by the trustees.^[23] This eventually led to the attorney general's office brokering a settlement of a lawsuit filed by a group of students, alumni and faculty.^[24] On June 10, 2015 five of the trustees, who had been supporters of tuition and were opponents of the settlement, resigned.^[25] The following day, Bharucha announced that he would be resigning to become a visiting scholar at Harvard University.^{[26][27][28][29][30]}

Bharucha served as the inaugural vice chancellor of SRM University, Amaravati, a new university in the newly designed capital city (Amaravati) of the state of Andhra Pradesh in India.^[31][32] He established a partnership with Minerva Schools at KGI^[33] to adopt their active learning platform.^[34][35][36]

Bharucha served as the founding vice chancellor of Sai University, a new university launched in the city of Chennai,^[1][2] from 2020 to 2024.

• Sai University, Chennai
• SRM University, Amaravati
• Official website
• Archived messages from Cooper Union

Academic offices
Preceded by George Campbell Jr.	President of Cooper Union 2011 - 2015	Succeeded by Laura Sparks