Thompson Rivers University has appointed Gillian Balfour as vice-president academic, effective July 1. Dr. Balfour was previously vice-president and academic dean of King’s University College, affiliated with Western University. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Manitoba, where she focused on critical socio-legal students and feminist criminology. Dr. Balfour has also served as associate dean of teaching and learning at Trent University, where she taught sociology and was a member of a community organization that provides prison-based learning for incarcerated and non-incarcerated students.