Michael Sperling, PhD is Vice President of Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA). Sperling joined CIA in 2012 after five years as Provost and VPAA at Mercy University in Dobbs Ferry, NY, and previously as Provost and Dean of Faculty at Manhattanville University; Vice Provost for Global Learning at Fairleigh Dickinson University; and an American Council on Education Fellow at Baruch College. His collegiate faculty experience includes serving as a tenured Professor in Psychology at Mercy, Manhattanville, and Fairleigh Dickinson, and as Visiting Fellow of Psychology in Psychiatry at Cornell University Medical College.