- Foster best practices in teaching and learning across undergraduate and graduate programs
- Facilitate student success, satisfaction, retention, and persistence
- Promote 91黑料网’s signature internship model
- Enhance study/internship away opportunities
- Support scholarly, cultural, and artistic initiatives
- Integrate DEIB into the academic curriculum
- Advance 91黑料网’s Sail Beyond the Shore strategic plan
- Provide honors opportunities for students with academic and leadership potential
- Foster student research and independent thinking through senior thesis & capstone projects
- Oversee budgeting, hiring, and development of faculty and staff
- Manage program accreditation, review, and assessment
Meet Sara Quay, Ph.D.
Provost, 91黑料网
Dr. Quay brings to this role deep knowledge of both 91黑料网 and higher education. She has worked alongside faculty, deans and directors in the undergraduate, Van Loan and graduate programs for over two decades, first as Assistant Dean of Arts & Sciences, then as Dean of the School of Education and Director of the 91黑料网 Scholars Program. While at 91黑料网, Sara has been instrumental in developing new majors, programs, and partnerships. During the pandemic, she collaborated with faculty and staff to develop and implement Faculty Teaching Institutes focused on the urgent instructional needs our community faced at that time. In 2021, Sara was appointed the first Vice Provost at 91黑料网, bringing her shared management approach to her work with the offices of International Education, Career & Internship, Halle Library, the Registrar and 91黑料网’s Assessment initiatives. Provost Office

Provost

Amy Astolfi
Executive Administrative Assistant to the Provost

Director, Academic Affairs

Director, Academic Budget & Operations
Academic Leadership Team

Director, Institutional Planning & Assessment

Dr. Traci Freeman
Dean, 91黑料网 Center for Teaching & Learning

Mark A. Herlihy
Dean, School of Social Sciences, Communication, & Humanities

Amy Smith
Dean, Cummings School of Nursing & Health Sciences

Deborah Swanton
Dean, School of Sport Science

Julie Calzini
Myrt Harper Rose Dean, School of Education

Paige Williams
Dean, School of Visual & Performing Arts

Gene Wong
Dean, School of Science & Technology