Mission statement
The Office of the Provost promotes faculty excellence in teaching, research and creative expression, university and community service at VCU by:
- Supporting an inclusive, collegial and collaborative culture among VCU faculty from recruitment to retirement.
- Providing university-level, strategic leadership and coordination of faculty affairs and faculty-related human resources across the Monroe Park, MCV and VCU-Qatar campuses.
- Recruiting, retaining, developing and advancing excellent and diverse faculty.
- Facilitating faculty development and mentoring programs and opportunities for all faculty at VCU.
Faculty excellence and engagement (culture)
- Faculty convocation
- Promotion and tenure celebration
- Faculty awards and distinction
- Endowed professors and chairs
- Emeriti faculty
- Retired Faculty Council
Strategic leadership and compliance (infrastructure)
- Diversity and inclusion
- Promotion and tenure guidelines, policies and procedures
- University promotion and tenure appeals committee
- University promotion and tenure review committee
- Policy review, revision and compliance
- Compensation philosophy
- Faculty credentialing (SACSCOC)
- Manage and disseminate faculty-related data
- Faculty-related communications
- Establish metrics/assessment for provost's office programs and initiatives
- VCU strategic planning development- faculty focus groups
- Conflict response
- Provost office human resources administration
Faculty recruitment and retention (faculty life cycle)
- Recruitment, searches and eJobs
- Search committee training
- Recruitment Inclusive Champions
- Dual career
- Internal recruitment model
- Faculty contracts, off-cycle requests and bonuses
- Compensation and merit process
- Cluster hiring (iCubed)
- FERIP and FTIP
Faculty performance and advancement (career development)
- Faculty annual evaluation process
- Promotion and tenure process
- New faculty academy/onboarding
- Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence
- Mentoring
- Study/research leave
- Part-time faculty orientation/evaluation and handbook
- Faculty handbook revisions
- Leadership development