In his assistant vice provost role, Bill Whitney champions the Impact Fellowships and Mountaintop Summer Experience programs through Lehigh University's Office of Creative Inquiry, and serves as the lead instigator of the Lehigh 360 initiative. He works across disciplinary borders to support and strengthen current experiential learning opportunities at Lehigh University, as well as those yet to be created. He previously served as administrative director for the Office of Creative Inquiry and as executive assistant in Lehigh's Office of the President. He holds a Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and has been an adjunct professor in the Department of Theatre at Lehigh and the Department of Performing Arts at Cedar Crest College. Whitney also holds a Master's degree in Drama from Washington University in St. Louis, and B.A. degrees in English and Theatre Arts from Nebraska Wesleyan University. His past research and scholarship has explored questions of reception and production in contemporary experimental theatre of the U.S., and the phenomenon of fringe theatre festivals as cultural tourist artifacts.