The university provost role is without peer in the corporate world or any other sector for that matter. With a span of control stretching to a dozen or more deans at the largest universities, overseeing budgets measured in hundreds of millions of dollars, the typical provost carries huge responsibilities, yet often wields surprisingly little real authority.

The provost’s challenge is finding the right levers for getting the academic and research enterprise to respond quickly to an emerging set of challenges—rising demands on undergraduate education, declining research funding, the challenges of globalization, and a chorus of outside voices demanding that universities demonstrate their value to students, their communities, and the nation as a whole.

The University Leadership Council provides its member provosts with expert advice and innovative strategies and practices—tested and proven to work by their peers at other universities across the country—for tackling their most pressing issues. Rather than reinventing the wheel, our provosts benefit from the learning of thousands of other universities facing the same challenges.

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