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M O N TA G E Academic Restructuring Provost: A chief academic executive officer. Combines the positions of campus president and vice president of academic affairs. Responsibilities include overseeing faculty and execution of curriculum.
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STLCC Administration creates provost positions for campuses Dalila Kahvedzic Editor-In-Chief
STLCC began altering their administrative structure when former Meramec and Wildwood campus president, Pam McIntyre, retired in July 2015 after her 29year career at STLCC. The greatest change in administration since then was a new chancellor, Chancellor Jeff Pittman, who was hired in July
2015. He is the fifth chancellor at STLCC within 10 years. This semester, however, administration is again undergoing major academic restructuring. STLCC is consolidating two positions, which will result in a new one — a provost. This position combines the campus president and vice president of academic affairs. Forest Park, Florissant Valley and Meramec are each set to welcome a provost by July 1 of this year. Wildwood will
welcome an associate provost. “We have a lot of instability, not just in the chancellor’s office but also at the campus levels. We’ve had different presidents and interim presidents,” Associate professor of English, Michael Burke said. There is much concern as to what will happen next, but the Academic Affairs Structure Focus Group (AASFG) is working to streamline the campus level overhead, Burke said. “Our first challenge, the
one that Dr. Pittman gave us, was to think about ways that we could streamline the campus level overhead,” Burke said. “His idea, which a lot of other community colleges that have multiple campuses like we do use, is this idea of a provost.” STLCC has three relatively good-sized campuses (Meramec, Florissant Valley and Forest Park) and Wildwood, a smaller campus. Wildwood has always been treated as a separate entity, Burke said.
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“We spent a lot of time getting feedback from faculty first on this idea of a provost — could we combine these two positions and what would be deemed or lost by that,” Burke said. A couple months later, the committee went back out to the faculty and said ‘if we decide that we have some number of provosts, what would the right number be,’ Burke said. With a fair amount of feedback from people college
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