TRANSFORMATION IN ACTION

Paula Myrick Short, PhD

Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

TRANSFORMATION TIMELINE

May 9

2013

• Pappas Consulting Group, Inc. report “Transforming the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs/Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost”, issued to Chancellor/President Khator

June 32013

• Paula Myrick Short, Ph.D., appointed Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Houston System/Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, University of Houston

June/

July

2013

• Interim Provost Office appointments made for new positions.

July 2013-

May 2014

• On-going organizational changes implemented. Searches for all new positions conducted.

May/

August 2014

• Organizational Transformation Implementation Steps completed.

MISSION STATEMENT

• The Office of the Provost leads the University’s efforts to be a globally recognized institution of higher learning through outstanding education, research and scholarship, service, and outreach.

CORE VALUES

The Office of the Provost will be:

• Strategic, intentional, and evidence-based in establishing academic direction

• Service oriented and guided by an ethos of integrity and fairness

• Transparent, timely, accountable, and responsive in its decision making

• Collaborative, communicative, and engaged in ways to improve service delivery

• Committed to holding the academic enterprise individually and collectively responsible

GOALS

• Build and retain a diverse, world-class faculty• Prepare graduates who will change the world• Build infrastructure to achieve and maintain

national rank• Build partnerships in energy, health, and the

arts • Become a major global institution

GOALS

STUDENT SUCCESS

STUDENT SUCCESS

FACULTY RECRUITMENT

FACULTY RECRUITMENT

RELEVANCE

RELEVANCE

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

• Houston GPS• Foundations of Excellence• Learning Abroad Scholarships• College of the Arts • Enhancing Faculty Diversity • Teaching Innovation Proposals• Strategic Enrollment Planning

Committee

uh.edu/provost

provost@uh.edu