Welcome
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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May 2013
Dear Faculty and Staff:
As always, our Commencement ceremony is a great time of excitement and joy for our graduates, their families, and our faculty. It is a great way to start the first part of May.
The searches for the Deans of the College of Arts & Sciences, the Graduate School, and the Bagley College of Engineering are all now complete with the following people being named to the respective positions: Dr. Greg Dunaway, Dr. Lori Bruce, and Dr. Achille Messac. In case you missed our campus announcements, you can read about them at the following links: http://www.msstate.edu/web/media/detail.php?id=6003,
http://www.msstate.edu/web/media/detail.php?id=6043, and http://www.msstate.edu/web/media/detail.php?id=6046. I am confident that all three will provide outstanding leadership at MSU.
The week after Commencement signaled the start of Maymester and the annual Staff Appreciation Day at the Junction. Congratulations to the 12 staff members who received the Zacharias Distinguished Staff Awards in recognition for their service to the university and to the other nominees for the award. My appreciation goes to Staff Council for organizing this fun event that highlights our outstanding, hard-working staff.
Congratulations to Dr. Mark Novotny for being named the most recent Giles Distinguished Professor, a very high honor for MSU faculty members.
Best wishes for a great summer,
Jerry Gilbert
Provost and Executive Vice President
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Contact Information
PO Box BQ
608 Allen Hall;
175 Presidents Circle
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS 39762
Mailstop: 9723
Phone: 662.325.3742
Fax: 662.325.4039
provost@msstate.edu