Provost Fellows Award Announcement

Dear Faculty and Staff Colleagues:

At the Provost’s Convocation in winter quarter, I announced an open call for applications to the Provost Fellows, who will represent and embed faculty leadership and scholarly expertise throughout the planning and implementation of Reigniting Our Strategic Directions. Nearly 60 colleagues applied to serve as Fellows and to support the objectives of our Reigniting Our Strategic Directions Goals. I am pleased to share below the list of 33 faculty members selected to serve a one-year term beginning this summer, and I look forward to recognizing them at our upcoming Faculty Convocation on May 19.

As faculty leaders and teacher-scholars, the Provost Fellows will bring their experience and expertise to our strategic effort to strengthen the education we offer in the Jesuit, liberal arts tradition. These colleagues will share their work as Provost Fellows with our academic departments and programs, and more broadly across the university. Provost Fellows will also share their work with peers across the academy, providing thoughtful scholarship and models for transforming the academic enterprise to serve a changing student population and to meet the emergent and long-standing challenges of our time.

I was delighted to see such strong interest in strengthening and transforming our University and was genuinely impressed by the quality and thoughtfulness of the Provost Fellow applications. I am hopeful that all faculty will continue to bring their expertise and energy to a deep and broad engagement with the Reignited Strategic Directions throughout the various phases of our collective work. In addition, President Peñalver and I are planning other opportunities to support faculty leadership at the program/department level within our schools/colleges as we enter these other phases.

I’d like to extend my gratitude to Katie Oliveras, Margit McGuire, Kent Koth, Charisse Cowan Pitre, Allison Henrich, Jodi O’Brien, Katherine Raichle, Kirsten Thompson, Bob Dullea, Alvin Sturdivant, Natasha Martin and Brooke Coleman for their service on the Selection Committees, and to David Green, McLean Sloughter, Jeff Philpott, Kristi Lee, and Jen Tilghman-Havens for their role in the review process.

Finally, I’d like to thank Charles Tung and John Fleming for their work developing this program and for their leadership as they co-direct the program in its first year.

Goal 1: Sustainability and Climate Change

• John Armstrong
• Tanya Hayes
• Mark Jordan
• Wes Lauer
• Phillip Thompson

Goal 1: Racial Injustice and Widening Economic Inequity

• Edward Donalson
• Maureen Feit
• Hazel Hahn
• Alex Johnston
• Hye-Kyung Kang

Goal 1: Rapid Technological Change and its Societal and Economic Impacts

• Wan Bae
• Julie Homchick Crowe
• Yen-Lin Han
• Matthew Rellihan
• Matthew Whitlock

Goal 1: University Core

• Lyn Gualtieri
• Hilary Hawley
• Stacey Jones
• Kate Koppelman
• David Neel
• Nova Robinson
• Eric Severson
• Donna Teevan

Goal 1: Ignatian Pedagogy, Experiential Learning, Universal Design

• Stephen Luckey
• Kerry Soo Von Esch

Goal 1: Community-Engaged Learning

• Rebecca McNamara
• Estella Williamson

Goal 2: Scholarship Mission and Culture

• Nalini Iyer

Goal 2: Faculty Performance and Evaluation

• Amelia Derr

Goal 3: Enhancing the Student Experience

• Patrick Schoettmer
• Sarah Shultz

Goal 4: Supporting LIFT SU Initiatives

• Hidy Basta
• Rashmi Chordiya

Thank you to the Provost Fellows for your commitment to Seattle University’s Reignited Strategic Directions and for your leadership in the important work to come. Please join me in congratulating these colleagues.

Sincerely,

Shane P. Martin
Provost