Provost Team
The Provost Team provides resources and expertise to support teaching, scholarship, and professional needs and opportunities for faculty. Each Associate Provost oversees select areas of faculty and academic support as follows:
Russell Johnson, Senior Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs
- Faculty recruiting & searches
- Faculty hiring
- Faculty leaves (sabbatical, FMLA, etc.)
- Faculty retirement options
- Faculty interpersonal issues
- Faculty review processes
- Departmental Budgets
- Policies, Faculty Handbook
Carol Hurney, Associate Provost for Teaching and Learning
- New Faculty Support
- Career development
- Orientations
- Mentoring
- Center for Teaching & Learning
- Faculty retention
- DEI initiatives
Melissa Glenn, Associate Provost of Academic Programs
- Curriculum
- JanPlan
- Visiting Committees
- Summer Research
- Faculty Offices
- Learning Spaces
- Course Evaluations
- Partnerships and Colby Labs
- Global Issues
- Academic Centers (Arts/Humanities, Buck, Linde-Packman, etc.)
James Sloat, Senior Associate Provost
- Academic operations
- Academic staff
- Special projects
- Academic spaces
- Academic scheduling
- Accreditation/assessment
- Fellowships
- CLAS (Colby Liberal Arts Symposium)
Stephanie Frost, Assistant Director of Faculty Human Resources
- Faculty human resource management
- Faculty searches, appointments, relocation, on-boarding
- I-9 employment verification
- International faculty visas
- Faculty payroll requests
Rose Meunier, Executive Assistant
- Scheduling and referral related to the Provost and Provost’s Office
- Reimbursements and accounts payable support (e.g., start-up funds, professional travel grants, endowed chair funds, other faculty requests for funding, student special projects fund)
- Event support related to the Provost’s Office (e.g. Faculty Orientation/Regathering, Convocation,
- Faculty Retreat, Baccalaureate, Commencement, etc.)
Administrative support for Provost Office processes (e.g., faculty elections, course evaluations, web page, etc.)