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, Associate Provost of 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 of Faculty Development and Diversity

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, Associate Provost of Academic Administration and Associate Dean of Faculty

Academic operations
Academic staff
Special projects
Academic spaces
Academic scheduling
Accreditation/assessment
Fellowships
CLAS (Colby Liberal Arts Symposium)

Stephanie Frost, Assistant Director of Faculty HR

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.)