About the Office of Academic Affairs
About the Office of Academic Affairs
Provost
- Joseph A. Alutto
Executive Vice President and Provost
Senior Leaders
- Javaune M. Adams-Gaston
Vice President for Student Life - William I. Brustein
Vice Provost for Global Strategies & International Affairs - Wayne E. Carlson
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies and Dean for Undergraduate Education - M. Dolan Evanovich
Vice President for Strategic Enrollment Planning
- Patrick S. Osmer
Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate School - W. Michael Sherman
Vice Provost for Academic Planning - W. Randy Smith
Vice Provost for Academic Programs - Kathleen K. Starkoff
Chief Information Officer - Joseph E. Steinmetz
Vice Provost for the Arts & Sciences and Executive Dean of the Arts & Sciences Colleges - Mac A. Stewart
Vice Provost for Minority Affairs and Special Assistant to the President for Diversity - Caroline C. Whitacre
Vice President for Research
- Susan S. Williams
Vice Provost for Academic Policy and Faculty Resources
Senior Leaders
Mac A. Stewart
Vice Provost for Minority Affairs and Special Assistant to the President for Diversity
Mac A. Stewart is Vice Provost for Minority Affairs, a post to which he was appointed in 2001 following brief service as interim vice provost. Before his interim appointment, he was dean of University College and associate provost for undergraduate studies from 1991 to 2001.
In 2005 he was also named special assistant to the president for diversity.
As a member of both the Department of Human Development and Family and Science and the School of Educational Policy and Leadership, Vice Provost Stewart has published widely in professional journals and has been a member of the editorial board of The Negro Educational Review since 1983 and editor-in-chief since 1999. His awards include the 1992 Frederick Patterson Award of The Greater Columbus United Negro College Fund.
Vice Provost Stewart earned his B.A. degree from Morehouse College, his M.A. from Atlanta University, and his Ph.D. from Ohio State. He has done post-doctoral work at Harvard University and the University of Bonn, West Germany. He has been at Ohio State since 1970.
Primary responsibilities
- ACCESS Collaborative Program for single parents who are students
- ADA coordinator
- Bell National Resource Center on the African-American Male
- CAMP Program
- Frank W. Hale, Jr. Black Cultural Center
- Minority scholarship services
- Minority student and faculty recruitment and retention
- President and Provost’s Diversity Lecture and Cultural Arts Series
- Young Scholars Program
Support staff
Ellen Banks
