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, andDirect Reports.

Andrew Shennan
Provost & Dean of the College
Michael Jeffries
Dean of Academic Affairs
Megan N úñez
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
German Studies
Italian Studies
Physical Education, Recreation & Athletics
Russian
Spanish
Africana Studies
Anthropology
Comparative Literary Studies
Economics
Education
English
Environmental Studies
History
Jewish Studies
Latin American Studies
中世纪和文艺复兴研究
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
心理学
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
Advisory Committee on Minority Recruitment, Hiring, and Retention
Direct Reports
- Associate Provost and Academic Director of Diversity and Inclusion (TBD)
- Associate Provost and Director of Strategic Growth (TBD)
-Assistant Provost for Institutional Planning and Assessment (Pamela Taylor)
- Assistant Provost for Faculty Affairs (Ruth Frommer)
- 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 (Rebecca Gordan)
-Director of the Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities (Eve Zimmerman)
- Director of the Office of Sponsored Research (Liz Demski)
- Director of the Science Center (Cathy Summa)
-Manager of Academic Budget & Financial Operations (Aimee Huff)
-Building Director, Knapp Social Sciences Center (Olga Shurchkov)
-Director of Programs, Pforzheimer Learning & Teaching Center (Roberta Schotka)
- Clerk of the Committee on Faculty Appointments (Jen Ellis)
- 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)