Leadership & Organization

The leadership of Virginia Institute of Science & Technology (VIST) is consisted of three groups: the Executive Management Team, Expert & Advisory Committees, and the Board of Director s& Trustees. The Institute’s Organization structure is

Executive Management Team

The VIST Executive Team is a group of top level managers who are operating and managing the VIST in the strategic level with a macro-approach. All the executives are experienced senior managers who used to be the top leaders in higher educational institutes or government agencies of higher education or retired universities senior managers.  The roles of Executive Teams:

Management and Operation of the VIST;
Select, appoint, and remove the Senior Managers and staffs;
Select, appoint, and remove the authorized representatives in China and other regions; and
Propose the ICUE’s budget to the VIST BOD

Board of Directors & Trustees (BoD)

The VIST Inc. is a Corporation, the Board of Directors & Trustees is the governing and policy-making body for Virginia Institute of Science & Technology.  VIST’s BOD will play an active controlling role in governance of the operation. The BOD of the VIST Inc. has nine members: Chairman of BOD, the President of the Institute, Secretary of BoD, two members (2) from major investors, two members (2) from administration and faculty committees, one (1) member as Independent BOD member, one (1) member as representative of students (one year term) and one (1) member as representative of alumni (one year term, vacated in first 3 years). All members of BOD have three-year’s terms, except for representatives of students and alumni.

Academic Advising Committee (AAC) 

Committee members consist of senior professors onboard at VIST and external experts who are professors in the Accredited American Universities or well-known international Universities, as well as representatives from students. They are committed to helping VIST maintain a standard of excellence in education. The Committee is overseeing the academic quality for degree and non-degree programs at VIST, including supervising, monitoring, evaluating, and improving all academic programs at VIST.  This committee is under the supervision and direction of the President and reports to both President and the VIST Board of Directors & Trustees, to assure that all programs meet the requirement of SCHEV, Accreditation Organization, and US Department of Education, to meet with the needs of the community of students. It also reviews and approves all applications for VIST degrees.