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Welcome to the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President. We are committed to maintaining the highest standard of academic integrity and quality of our academic programs. Our goal is to facilitate the success of our students and faculty in all endeavors. Our students are engaged in learning in the classroom and in countless co-curricular activities. Similarly, our faculty members engage in all three facets of our land-grant mission: learning, research, and service. Our overriding commitment is excellence in all that we do.
Mississippi State University is emerging as one of the nation's premier public universities, one with both a local and global focus. The Carnegie Foundation has classified MSU as a Research University with Very High Research Activity and a university that is committed to Community Engagement. Our faculty and students are addressing the intellectual issues and research challenges of the twenty-first century.
We are proud that our academic programs prepare our students to be our nation's future global leaders.
Jerome A. Gilbert
Provost and Executive Vice President
Message from the Provost
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June 2013
Dear Faculty and Staff,
As we finish out the fiscal year with the month of June, I want to thank you for your hard work at MSU. I am glad that we were able to fund another modest raise pool for our personnel for fiscal year 2013-2014. Addressing the salaries of faculty and staff is a key point in our Strategic Plan, State of Excellence, and it continues to be a high priority.
Just to let you know, as of June 16, 2013, Dr. Royce Bowden is assuming the role of Interim Dean of Engineering as I step back into the full-time role of Provost and Executive Vice President. I also want to comment on the fact that Dr. Lou D’Abramo is retiring at the end of the month and turning the role of Dean of the Graduate School and Associate Vice President over to Dr. Lori Bruce. I want to commend Dr. D’Abramo on an outstanding career at MSU and thank him for his leadership in the Graduate School.
As Mississippi State seeks to expand its global outreach, several administrators from MSU spent a week in India at the end of May. We had some very good meetings with universities and agencies about partnerships that we may undertake in research, education, and outreach endeavors. We also met with MSU alumni and students in India about the possibility of an alumni chapter in India. We were warmly welcomed by graduates and friends of MSU in India.
Planning continues for our new classroom building and we are now starting the process to plan for the renovation of the YMCA Building. Construction on the new classroom building should start in middle part of the fall semester.
We are in the midst of transfer and freshman orientation. It is great to see all the new students wanting to be a part of the learning environment at MSU. Thanks to the administrators, faculty, staff, and current students who have helped make this go so smoothly.
Congratulations to our baseball team for making it to the College World Series. Our student athletes represent the university well, and we are proud of them.
With warm regards,
Jerry Gilbert
Provost and Executive Vice President
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