Hikaru Kozuma
Vice Provost for University Life, University of Pennsylvania 

Hikaru (Karu) Kozuma currently serves as the Vice Provost for University Life at the University of Pennsylvania. Originally from New York City, Karu attended Middlebury College, majoring in English and minoring in American History. Upon graduation, Karu worked for Middlebury for three years, serving as a resident director and housing director. In 2001, he attended Harvard¹s Graduate School of Education and received his master of education. In 2002, Karu joined the Columbia University student affairs staff and worked in the Office of Residential Programs. He previously began work at the University of Pennsylvania in 2010, serving in various roles, including the Executive Director for the Office of Student Affairs and the Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs. From 2018 to 2021, Karu was the chief student affairs officer at Amherst College in Massachusetts, and in 2021, he returned to Philly and Penn as the Executive Director for College Houses and Academic Services. He has been highly involved in NASPA - National Association for Student Personnel Administrators - since 2005 and served as the National Co-Chair for the Asian Pacific Islander Knowledge Community from 2009–2011. He earned his doctorate of education from Penn¹s Graduate School of Education in 2015.

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