Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost
Welcome from Provost Tom Sullivan
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To further our interdisciplinary research agenda, preeminent scholars and scientists from a wide range of disciplines have come together to create, for example, a new world-class Institute on the Environment, and the Academic Health Center has launched the Institute for Translational Neuroscience. These two institutes complement the Institute for Advanced Study, created in 2005, which focuses on advanced social sciences, humanities, and arts scholarship. Since 2007 one of our faculty has been awarded the Nobel Prize, eight were selected as Guggenheim fellows, five were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, three to the National Academy of Sciences, and fourteen to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
To sustain this momentum given the new budgetary realities faced by all institutions of higher education, we will have to be prudent, selective, and wise, so that we can continue to invest in the academic initiatives that distinguish the University of Minnesota as preeminent. Although times are financially challenging, we cannot diminish our intensity of purpose as we look to the future. Our investments in great teaching and research must and will continue.
We embrace the path of change and the rigorous pursuit of excellence with its many challenges and profound opportunities. We will continue to create novel programs and expand current initiatives involving the faculty, instructional technology, and undergraduate and graduate student teaching and learning. I welcome your comments and suggestions on how the provost’s office can help to continue fulfill the vision, mission, and values of the University of Minnesota.
E. Thomas Sullivan
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost
Julius E. Davis Chair in Law