Orlando L. Taylor is Vice Provost for Research, Dean of the Graduate School , and Professor of Communications at Howard University . Prior to joining the Howard faculty in 1973, Vice Provost Taylor was a faculty member at Indiana University . He also has served as a Visiting Professor at Stanford University and Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Dr. Taylor is a national leader in graduate education and within his discipline. He is currently or has served previously as a member of numerous national boards, including the Board of Directors of the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), for which he served as Board Chair in 2001. He is also a Past President of the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools and the National Communication Association. He is a former member of the Advisory Committee of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources of the National Science Foundation and of the Advisory Council at the National Institutes of Health. He is the outgoing President of the Consortium of Social Science Associations and a current member of the Board of Trustees of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. He chairs the national Advisory Board for the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, a major NSF-funded center at the University of Wisconsin .