Provost

The Provost is the chief academic officer of the university and reports to the President. The Provost has oversight of university academic programs, curriculum, academic planning and budgets, teaching, research, and faculty matters. Working with the deans and the faculty, the Provost provides leadership of major university initiatives in teaching, research, and creative activities and has responsibility for all university educational and academic policies. The Provost coordinates university enrollment management and also has oversight of academic technologies, and library systems.

Areas Reporting to the Provost:

University of Mary Washington Engaging in Strategic Planning Process:

University of Mary Washington President Judy G. Hample initiated a comprehensive strategic planning process with a campus-wide address on November 17, 2008. In that speech, Dr. Hample outlined her vision for the University and asked members of the campus community to join her in “imagining the future.” She described UMW’s strategic planning as “a consensus-building process intended to be a combination of ‘ground-up’ ideas and reaction to the ideas I have presented.”

On December 17, Dr. Hample announced the formation of the strategic planning steering committee, made up of faculty, staff, a student, and an alumna.The 20-member committee, chaired by Nina Mikhalevsky, is scheduled to deliver the University strategic plan to the UMW Board of Visitors in November 2009.

To find out information about the planning process, offer a comment, or ask a question, you are encouraged to go to the planning website http://strategicplanning.umwblogs.org/ or to email the committee at StrategicPlanning@umw.edu.

Provost:
Dr. Jay Harper became Provost on July 1, 2009. http;//www.umw.edu/news/?a=1649

Administrative Assistant to the Provost:
Anika Wilson

Contact the Office of the Provost:
1301 College Avenue
Fredericksburg, VA 22401-5300
Telephone: (540) 654-1241
Email: awilson3@umw.edu