Camille McKayle
Jamaican-American mathematician
Camille Althea McKayle (born 1964) is an Afro-Jamaican-American mathematician and is the current Provost of the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI). She holds a PhD in mathematics from Lehigh University and taught undergraduates at Lafayette College and UVI from 1993 to 2008.
In 2008, she became Interim Dean of Science and Mathematics at UVI and four years later was made interim provost. She became the permanent Provost in 2014. McKayle's research focuses on expanding participation of STEM curricula to minority populations.
McKayle will become Executive Director of the Mathematical Association of America in September 2026.
Early life and education
Camille Althea McKayle was born in 1964 in Jamaica, where she completed her primary education and began her secondary schooling. She then moved to New York, where she completed high school and enrolled in mathematics, receiving her Bachelor of Science from Bates College of Lewiston, Maine, in 1985.
McKayle went on to further her education earning a Master of Science and PhD in mathematics at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. in 1993.
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