Provost's & Deans' Responsibilities

The provost has overall responsibility for all aspects
of the academic life at Wellesley College.

The responsibilities of the Office of the Provost and Dean of the College are distributed among the provost and the deans. These responsibilities outlined below are:  Major Areas of Responsibility, Department and Program Assignments, Committee Assignments, and Direct Reports.

  Andrew Shennan
Provost & Dean of the College
Michael Jeffries
Dean of Academic Affairs

Megan Núñez
Dean of Faculty Affairs

 
Major Areas of Responsibility Strategic planning
Faculty appointments
Academic programs and budgets
Centers
Curricular matters:
instructional and academic development
academic innovation
instructional technology
institutional research
student learning and assessment
Faculty appointments
Faculty development and resources
Diversity and Inclusion
Department and Program Assignments
American Studies
Chemistry
Classical Studies
East Asian Languages & Cultures (EALC)
East Asian Studies
French and Francophone Studies
German Studies
Italian Studies
Physical Education, Recreation & Athletics
Russian
Spanish and Portuguese
 
Africana Studies
Anthropology
Comparative Literary Studies
Economics
Education
English
Environmental Studies
History
Jewish Studies
Latin American Studies
Medieval/Renaissance Studies
Middle Eastern Studies
Peace & Justice Studies
Philosophy
Political Science
Religion
Russian Area Studies
Sociology
South Asia Studies
Women's and Gender Studies
Writing Program
Architecture 
Art (Studio)
Art History
Astronomy/Astrophysics
Biochemistry
Biological Sciences
Chemical Physics
Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS)
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
Computer Science
Engineering
Geosciences
Mathematics
Media Arts and Sciences (MAS)
Music
Neuroscience
Physics
Psychology
Quantitative Reasoning
Theatre Studies
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

Committee Assignments

Advisory Committee on Academic Staffing (ACAS)

Advisory Committee on Merit (chair)

Agenda Committee

Budget Advisory Committee

Committee on Faculty Appointments (chair)

Domestic Incident Response Team

Honor Code Hearing Review Panel

International Safety Committee

International Study Committee

 
Academic Review Board
 
Advisory Committee on Academic Staffing (ACAS)
 
Committee on Curriculum and Academic Policy (chair)
Advisory Committee on Academic Staffing (ACAS)
Advisory Committee on Merit
Committee on Faculty Appointments
 
Faculty Benefits Committee
 
 
Direct Reports
- Associate Provost for Equity and Inclusion (Amy Marks)
- Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs (Ruth Frommer)
- Assistant Provost for Institutional Research and Assessment (Hui Xiong)
- Assistant Provost for Faculty Appointments and Governance (Jen Ellis)
- Chief Information Officer and Associate Provost (Ravi Ravishanker)
- Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women (Layli Maparyan)
- Director of Athletics and Chair of Physical Education, Recreation and Athletics (Bethany Ellis)
- Director of the Davis Museum and Cultural Center (Lisa Fischman)
- Director of International Studies (Jennifer Thomas-Starck)
- Director of the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs (Nina McKee)
-Director of the Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities (Julie Walsh/Irene Mata)
- Director of the Office of Sponsored Research (Liz Demski)
- Associate Provost and Director of the Science Center (Cathy Summa)
-Manager of Academic Budget & Administration (Kathryn Rosenberg)
-Executive Assistant to the Provost (Josette McWilliams)
-Building Director, Knapp Social Sciences Center (Jenny Musto)
-Director of Programs, Pforzheimer Learning & Teaching Center (Roberta Schotka)
-Director of Office of Student Success (Jamie Motley)
- Director of the Pforzheimer Learning  and Teaching Center (Sarah Wall-Randell)
- Director of the Office of Sponsored   Research (Liz Demski) (dotted line)
-Faculty Director of the Child Study Center (Maureen Morgan)
-Director of the Botanic Gardens (Kristina Jones)
-Director of the Wendy Paulson Ecology of Place (Suzanne Langridge)
-Director of the Quantitative Analysis Institute (Casey Pattanayak)