Office of the Provost

The Conversations on JUSTICE with Inamori Ethics Prize Winners and Colleagues event series was selected as a CWRU North Star experience by the Office of the Provost. The Inamori Center invites CWRU students (undergraduate, graduate and professional students) who attended one of these two events (or…

On Wednesday, April 7, from noon to 1 p.m., the Office of the Provost will host the fourth installment in the North Star Seminar Series. The event will feature Jonathan Holloway, a U.S. historian and 21st president of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Holloway's talk is titled “Framing…

In early March Interim President Cowen announced that the community’s contributions this academic year had been so significant that the traditional Employee Appreciation Week was too brief a time to celebrate faculty and staff. Instead, he extended it for the entire month. Though the month of…

At Case Western Reserve University we value our employees and their contributions to our university. Now, as part of Employee Appreciation Month, we want to recognize those employees with a personalized message from Provost and Executive Vice President Ben Vinson III. Members of the university…

Members of the CWRU community, particularly faculty in STEM-related fields, are invited to join the next meeting of the STEM Faculty Recruitment and Retention Journal Club. Pathway 4 of the university’s strategic plan, Think Big, seeks to increase recruitment and retention of historically…

Members of the CWRU community, particularly faculty in STEM-related fields, are invited to join the next meeting of the STEM Faculty Recruitment and Retention Journal Club. Pathway 4 of the university’s strategic plan, Think Big, seeks to increase recruitment and retention of historically…

The Office of the Provost and the entire Think Big team are pleased to announce plans for the spring. With the help of the Think Big Pathway Leaders, the team is forging ahead with projects and activities to help CWRU move along its four pathways, toward its North Star. “The Think Big strategic…

Provost Ben Vinson III invites the university community to submit nominations for the 2021 Frank and Dorothy Humel Hovorka Prize. This prize recognizes an active or emeritus faculty member whose exceptional achievements in teaching, research and scholarly service have benefited the community, the…

The Office of the Provost will host the third installment in the North Star Seminar series—“A Conversation with the Honorable Gil Cisneros on the Role of Society, Universities, and Achieving our Common Purpose”—today (Feb. 23) at 5 p.m. The event will feature the Honorable Gil Cisneros, a…

Today (Feb. 16) at noon, the Office of the Provost and the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence will host the second installment in the North Star Seminar series. The event will feature Reuben E. Brigety II, the 17th vice-chancellor and president of the University of the South and…