Provost and Vice President for Strategy and Policy

The Provost is the chief academic officer of the university, reports to the President, and serves as the chief executive officer in the President's absence. 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 university information resources and instructional technologies, academic computing, and library systems. 

Areas Reporting to the Provost:

• College of Arts and Sciences
• College of Graduate and Professional Studies
• Division of Information Resources
• University Libraries
• Office of Academic Planning, Assessment, and Institutional Research
• University Data Management
• Office of the Registrar
• James Farmer Scholars
• Admissions and Enrollment Management

Acting Provost:                                                                                                                               
Nina Mikhalevsky, Vice President for Strategy and Policy and Professor of Philosophy, was appointed Acting Provost July 2007. She earned her doctoral degree in philosophy from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree with honors in philosophy from Boston University. Prior to coming to the University of Mary Washington, she served as the Assistant Dean for Academic Programs and Planning in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at George Washington University. Her research interests are in aesthetics, ethics, and political theory.

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