Julie Greenwood joined UC Davis as its dean of Continuing and Professional Education in October 2023. She oversees more than 160 staff and 865 contract instructors, and a division that generates $41 million in self-supporting revenue. CPE has more than 56,000 enrollments annually—the third-largest UC extension as measured by enrollment—and serves learners in all 50 U.S. states and more than 100 countries.

Greenwood came to UC Davis from Arizona State University, where she served for four years as vice dean for Educational Initiatives in the EdPlus enterprise unit, overseeing Instructional Design and New Media, Learning Experience and Student Success, Adaptive and Personalized Learning, Assessment and Compliance, and the EdPlus Action Lab. She also was the EdPlus liaison to the University Innovation Alliance and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities Personalized Learning Consortium.

Prior to Arizona State University, Greenwood held several leadership roles at Oregon State University over nearly 20 years, including associate provost for Transformative Learning in the Division of Academic Programs & Learning Innovation, associate dean for Undergraduate Studies, and associate dean for Academic and Student Affairs in the College of Science.

Greenwood has a Bachelor of Science in biology from Siena College in New York and a Ph.D. in neuroscience/pharmacology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.