Sally Johnstone

Sally M. Johnstone is the Vice President for Academic Advancement at the Western Governors University, a competency-based, on-line institution headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. Prior to joining WGU in October 2011, she was the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at a traditional comprehensive university, Winona State University in Minnesota. She also spent over 15 years at the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.

Dr. Johnstone's higher education experiences include work on policy issues for higher education institutions and system organizations, inter-institutional collaborations, quality assurance issues, project development and evaluation, and international projects. She has worked with UNESCO on education and open educational resource issues for over a decade and serves on the U.S. UNESCO Commission. Dr. Johnstone serves on the editorial boards for Change magazine (USA) and the Journal of Open Learning (UK). She has authored dozens of articles, books, and reports on issues of integrating information and communication technology into academics.

Johnstone earned her Ph. D. in experimental psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.