About
The Office of the Provost is committed to promoting academic excellence at Purdue. The Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Diversity is Purdue's chief academic officer, reporting directly to the president. The provost is responsible for:
- All academic programs
- Academic strategy and priorities
- Faculty-related matters (including academic appointments, tenure and promotion)
- Student academic affairs
The provost works closely with the deans of all colleges and schools to ensure effective collaboration and inspire new areas of scholarship. He also has direct responsibility for academic support units including diversity and inclusion, enrollment management, financial affairs, and the libraries. The provost collaborates with the chief financial officer and has responsibility for the allocation of financial resources in accordance with academic priorities. The provost also communicates on academic and faculty matters with a wide variety of internal and external constituencies, including the Board of Trustees.
Elements will benefit individual faculty, the departments they belong to, college administrators, and the university by optimizing annual performance reviews. There will be reasons for every faculty member to input activities.
With this university-level solution, data when summarized at the college level will provide a more inclusive or holistic picture of faculty contributions to their discipline, department, college, university, and society. Additionally, faculty can better demonstrate their accomplishments for their discipline, field of study, impact in the market or across communities, and nationally recognized work including scholarship, grants, rewards or recognitions.
Elements will be more inclusive than other IT knowledge management solutions currently on the market, and it will paint the broadest picture possible of scholarly or creative activities and accomplishments including:
- Teaching and learning
- Service and engagement
- Research and creative activities