Office of the Provost

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 pla...

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 n...

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 philanthro...

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 ...

Members of the CWRU community, particularly faculty in STEM-related fields, are invited to participate in the fifth meeting of the STEM Faculty Recruitment and Retention Journal Club Feb. 18 at noon. This month, the club will discuss “Nudging Toward Diversity: Applying Behavioral Design to Faculty ...

Case Western Reserve University has partnered with Academic Impressions, an organization specializing in professional development resources for higher education faculty, staff and administrators. The partnership provides training resources designed for higher education to all members of the CWRU co...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to review and provide input on draft action plans of the For a Better CWRU: A Student-Led Task Force. The plans were developed with much work from dedicated committee co-chairs and the 192 individuals who responded to the universi...

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 n...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University 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...

Ben Vinson III, provost and executive vice president, was recently elected to the Council on Library and Information Resources’ (CLIR) board. Vinson joined two other members elected to the board during the organization’s fall meeting: Asma Naeem, chief curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art; andSa...