Alicia Franck is Associate Vice Provost in the Office of Academic and Strategic Partnerships at Emory University. Ms. Franck is responsible for working with Emory faculty and strategic initiative leaders to engage a broader public in the academic priorities of unit and university-wide strategic efforts. She also works closely with the Office of the Vice President and Secretary and the Emory Alumni Association to identify and recruit new leadership for Emory and its boards.

Ms. Franck's career in higher education began in 1989 when she was appointed Director of Special Gifts at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She began her Emory career in 1991 as the Associate Director of Development at the Emory School of Law. Two years later she was named Director of Regional Programs, creating and implementing the university's first national alumni and development leadership program. In 1997, Franck was promoted to Associate Vice President of University Development (and, in 2002, Senior Associate Vice President) where she oversaw the alumni relations and development operations for the Goizueta Business School, Emory School of Law, Oxford College, the Candler School of Theology, the Michael C. Carlos Museum, the University Libraries, the Office of the Provost and the Office of Planned Giving. In this role she was responsible for strategic planning, major gift fund raising and the personnel and budget management of thirty fund raisers and administrative assistants. In 2004, she was appointed to the position of Senior Associate Vice President for Principal Gifts responsible for developing and managing a donor portfolio for gifts of $5M+ to support the university's strategic plan.

Prior to her career in higher education, Franck worked in national politics from 1983-1985 serving former Senator Howard H. Baker in the Office of the Majority Leader of the United States Senate. On Capitol Hill her duties included legislative research, speech writing for the Chief of Staff, and serving as a liaison with The White House and political action committees. During the 1984 election cycle she served as the State Coordinator for Colleges and Universities in Mississippi on the Committee to Re-elect United States Senator Thad Cochran where she was responsible for fund raising and youth voter registration.

Franck received her undergraduate degree in political science from Rhodes College and holds a Masters of Divinity from Emory University. Active in university and civic organizations, she chaired the Emory Center for Women board and currently serves on the President's Commission on the Status of Women. Franck is a 2005 graduate of the Regional Leadership Institute, a member of the Women in Leadership Committee of The Commerce Club, and serves on the boards of Leadership DeKalb and the Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education.