A provost is a senior academic administrator. At many institutions of higher education,they are the chief academic officer,a role that may be combined with being deputy to the chief executive officer. They may also be the chief executive officer of a university,of a branch campus of a university,or of a college within a university.
Lou Anna Kimsey Simon is an American academic administrator who served as the 20th president of Michigan State University (MSU). Simon was appointed interim president of the university in 2003,then served as president from 2005 until her resignation in 2018.
Earl Lewis is the founding director of the Center for Social Solutions and professor of history at the University of Michigan. He was president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation from 2013 to 2018. Before his appointment as the president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,Lewis served for over eight years as Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and as the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies at Emory University. He was the university's first African-American provost and at the time the highest-ranking African-American administrator in the university's history.
In mathematics,a composition algebraA over a field K is a not necessarily associative algebra over K together with a nondegenerate quadratic form N that satisfies
Jamshed Bharucha is an Indian-American cognitive neuroscientist who has served in leadership roles in higher education. He is the Founding Vice Chancellor of Sai University,Chennai,and is a member of the Board of Advisors of India's International Movement to Unite Nations (I.I.M.U.N.).
Arthur Sherburne Hardy was an American engineer,educator,editor,diplomat,novelist,and poet.
Paul N. Courant is an American economist who is an expert in public goods. His recent research focuses on the economics of universities,the economics of libraries and archives,and the impact of new information technologies on the scholarly publishing system.
Tony Fan-Cheong Chan is a Chinese American mathematician who has been serving as President of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) since 2018. Prior that,he was President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2009 to 2018.
M. Brian Blake is an American computer scientist/software engineer and the eighth president of Georgia State University. He was previously the executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at George Washington University;executive vice president of academic affairs and the Nina Henderson Provost at Drexel University;the dean of the graduate school and vice provost for academic affairs at the University of Miami;an associate dean for research and professor at the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame;and department chair and professor of computer science at Georgetown University.
Stuart Calvin Lord is an American academic and administrator. In 2009 Lord became the fifth president of Naropa University. Lord was the first black president of Naropa University. Currently Lord serve as CEO and President of Delta Developmental,a firm in Boulder,CO,specializing in leadership development,curriculum design,organizational assessment,and consulting services working for businesses,athletic teams,and university executives
James Carl "Jim" Bean is an American college administrator from Oregon. He is the current provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Northeastern University in Boston,Massachusetts. He previously served as Senior Associate Dean for Academic Programs at the Lundquist College of Business,and also Senior Vice President and Provost at the University of Oregon.
Jere Wade Morehead is the 22nd and current President of the University of Georgia. He continues as the Josiah Meigs Professor of Legal Studies at the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business,and was previously Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost.
Sian Leah Beilock is a cognitive scientist who is the eighth president of Barnard College and president-elect of Dartmouth College. Previous to serving at Barnard College,President Beilock spent 12 years at the University of Chicago,departing as the Stella M. Rowley Professor of Psychology and Executive Vice Provost. She holds doctorates of philosophy in both kinesiology and psychology from Michigan State University.
}}Martha Elizabeth Pollack is an American computer scientist who has served as the 14th president of Cornell University since April 2017. Previously,she served as the 14th provost and executive vice president for academic affairs of the University of Michigan from 2013 to 2017.
Kim E. Schatzel is an American academic administrator who is the 19th president of the University of Louisville. She joined Eastern Michigan University in January 2012 as provost and executive vice president of academic and student affairs,and became interim president on July 8,2015,following the resignation of Susan Martin. Schatzel was previously dean of the college of business at University of Michigan–Dearborn. On November 30,2022 she was announced as the next president of University of Louisville and began her tenure on February 1,2023.
Ruth V. Watkins is an American scholar of child language and speech pathology. She was the 16th president of the University of Utah. She stepped down from the role on April 7,2021,to enter the private sector.
Shixin Jack Hu is the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at the University of Georgia. He is also the UGA Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Environmental,Civil,Agricultural,and Mechanical Engineering in the UGA College of Engineering.
Susan M. Collins is an American economist who has served as the 14th president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston since July 1,2022. She is the first African American woman and first woman of color to lead any of the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks. Collins previously served as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs of the University of Michigan from 2020 to 2022.
Thomas John Glas Hochstettler served as the twenty-third president of Lewis &Clark College in Portland,Oregon. He took office in August 2004 as the successor to Michael Mooney. He served in that capacity until 2009 when he became Provost at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. He subsequently held leadership positions at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi and as a Commissioner in the UAE Ministry of Education. In September 2020,he was appointed Provost at Abu Dhabi University. Before joining Lewis &Clark,Hochstettler served as Founding Vice President for Academic Affairs at International University Bremen,now Jacobs University in Bremen,Germany. He has held academic appointments and administrative positions at Stanford University,Bowdoin College,and Rice University.
