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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January 2012
Dear Faculty and Staff,
It is great to see the campus invigorated anew with the excitement of the start of spring semester. We have a number of outstanding events and speakers planned for the early spring and I hope that you will take advantage of these opportunities. They include a teaching seminar by Dr. Saundra McGuire of LSU on January 20 (information can be found at http://ctl.msstate.edu/) and a two-part
faculty recruitment workshop sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Equity Programs on January 24 and January 31 (http://odep.msstate.edu/events/).
Our fall academic calendar has changed as a result of the change in the fall football schedule. We will not have a Thursday night football game. Consequently, the Calendar Committee met and recommended a change in the fall schedule which is now approved. We have restored class meetings on Thursday, October 11, and on Monday and Tuesday, November 21 and 22. The 2012 Fall Break
will now occur on Thursday and Friday, October 4 and 5.
We will be keeping the window open for feedback on the MSU Strategic Plan (https://w.msstate.edu/strategicplan/index.php) in order for the website to be open simultaneously with the forthcoming website for review of the university's research priorities, as recently announced by Vice President David Shaw. I encourage you to comment on both of these important documents. I would also ask you to consider submitting potential ideas for our upcoming Quality Enhancement Plan to improve some identified aspect of the undergraduate educational experience at MSU (http://www.qep.msstate.edu/).
I, along with my team in the Office of the Provost, remain committed to finding ways to enhance all of the programs at MSU and reward our personnel. I will continue working hard in 2012 with President Keenum and the Vice Presidents to do so.
With warm regards,
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