Gail Gibson, Ph.D.

Gail Gibson oversees the College of LSA's cohort-based scholarship programs, including the Kessler Presidential Scholars, dedicated to supporting first-generation college students, and the U.P. Scholars, focused on support for undergraduate students from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The college's cohort-based scholarship programs combine substantial financial awards with academic, professional, and personal support to help students thrive as part of a connected community on campus.

Gail’s research interests focus on college access and success and how students experience academic transitions in higher education. She has taught U-M undergraduate courses in academic argumentation and professional writing. A former journalist, Gail was a national legal correspondent for The Baltimore Sun, and she is a former recipient of the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship in the Law at U-M.