Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost

Welcome to the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at University of Minnesota. Provost Tom Sullivan is the University's chief academic officer, with responsibility for managing the policies and practices that affect the academic life of the University as a whole. For example, the Provost's Office oversees:

• Faculty affairs, including promotion and tenure;
• Undergraduate and graduate education and student well-being;
• Interdisciplinary collaboration in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and professional schools;
• Colleges and academic units outside of the Academic Health Center;
• The academic side of the University's strategic positioning plan, "Transforming the University"; and
• The collegiate compact and budgeting process, which decides academic investments.

Read more about the University's transformation.

Featured Academic Affairs Updates:

New $1.3 million initiative to further arts, humanities and design at U of M

On September 8, University of Minnesota Provost Tom Sullivan announced a new $1.3 million system-wide initiative designed to support a broad range of faculty activities in the arts, humanities and design. The newly created "Imagine Fund" is supported by a major gift from the McKnight Foundation and will begin this fall, with full implementation coming by 2009.

UPDATE: December 1, 2008: $3,000 Annual Awards Applications available online.

University News Service press release.

Provost’s Academic Update

“The upcoming holidays are an opportunity for each of us to reflect on how much we have achieved together and how much more we will continue to accomplish as a university community in the years ahead. We clearly are making progress as a university, and that progress is being noticed worldwide.”

Read the full Dec. 18, 2008, Provost's Academic Update.