Provost's Outstanding Junior Faculty Awards Announced

We are thrilled to announce the three winners of the 2020 Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Awards and the two winners of the 2020 Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Research & Creative Activity. These highly-competitive awards honor the very best work…

News and Profiles

William H. Byler and Maxine Christopher Shutz Awards Announced

Nov. 17, 2020

The Office of the Provost would like to announce two very special awards: the William H. Byler Distinguished Professor Award and the Maxine Christopher Shutz Award and Lecture for Distinguished… Read More

Three Provost’s Awards Announced

Nov. 13, 2020

We are excited to announce more of the Provost’s award winners—congratulations to all three faculty members! Provost’s Creative Extension Programming by New Faculty Award The Provost’s Creative Extension Programming… Read More

4-H Center for Youth Development Wins National Diversity Award

Nov. 2, 2020

We extend hearty congratulations to the MU 4-H Center for Youth Development for winning the APLU National Extension Diversity Award. Read more about the award on the MU Extension… Read More

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The Provost's Blog

Should We Continue to Plan for a Budget Cut?

May 13, 2020

We plan based on current information and current expectations of what the fall and the coming fiscal year will look like. This underpins our planned reduction in expenses for FY21… Read More

N of 1

Jan. 29, 2020

N of 1 – that seems to be where medicine is moving towards. Advances in medicine point in the direction of an N of 1 strategy where studies use a… Read More

Our New Resource Allocation Model – Incentivizing Collaboration Part II

Jan. 14, 2020

Continuing on the theme of collaboration – how do we incentivize collaboration under our new Resource Allocation Model (RAM)? One approach used in the past, and perhaps more successfully than… Read More

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