A provost is a senior academic administrator. At many institutions of higher education,the provost is the chief academic officer,a role that may be combined with being deputy to the chief executive officer. In some institutions,they may be the chief executive officer of a university,of a branch campus of a university,or of a college within a university.
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 in the United States and in India.
Arthur Sherburne Hardy was an American engineer,educator,editor,diplomat,novelist,and poet.
Lai Choy Heng is Emeritus Professor of Physics,NUS Emeritus Executive Vice-President and President Advisor,and the former Executive Vice-president,Yale-NUS College (2012–2014) and Vice Provost at the National University of Singapore (2003–2012). He received his undergraduate as well as graduate degrees from the University of Chicago. He took up a position as post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Niels Bohr Institute,University of Copenhagen from 1978 to 1980 after which he joined National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Department of Mathematics as a Lecturer. He then moved to the Department of Physics in 1981 which saw him rise through the ranks from senior lecturer to associate professor to professor.
Academic ranks in the United States are the titles,relative importance and power of professors,researchers,and administrative personnel held in academia.
Brian Blake is an American computer scientist and software engineer who has been serving as the 8th president of Georgia State University since August 2021.
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. From 2015 to 2020,he served as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Northeastern University in Boston,Massachusetts. He previously served for 5 years 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 from 2008 to 2013.
Jere Wade Morehead is an American lawyer who is the 22nd president of the University of Georgia. He is also 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 an American cognitive scientist who is the president of Dartmouth College in Hanover,New Hampshire Before serving at Dartmouth College,she was the president of Barnard College in Manhattan,New York. Earlier she was a long time professor at the University of Chicago and left the university as the Stella M. Rowley Professor of Psychology and executive vice provost.
Martha Elizabeth Pollack is an American computer scientist who served as the 14th president of Cornell University from April 2017 to June 2024. From 2013 to 2017,she was the 14th provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan.
Robert B. Schnabel is an American computer scientist. He was executive director and CEO of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) from November 1,2015 to 2017. He is now professor and external chair of computer science at University of Colorado Boulder.
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.
Elizabeth H. Simmons is an American theoretical physicist,and Executive Vice Chancellor at University of California San Diego. Formerly,she was a distinguished professor of physics at Michigan State University,the dean of Lyman Briggs College,and the associate provost for faculty and academic staff development. She has also held positions at Harvard University and Boston University. Simmons is married to fellow physicist,R. Sekhar Chivukula. Together they have two children.
Shixin Jack Hu is a Chinese-American engineer who 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 the 16th 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. He was subsequently appointed Provost at Abu Dhabi University. Before joining Lewis &Clark,Hochstettler served as Founding Vice President for Academic Affairs at International University Bremen,now Constructor University in Bremen,Germany. He has held academic appointments and administrative positions at Stanford University,Bowdoin College,and Rice University.
