Provost Leadership Fellows: 2024-2025
The Provost Leadership Fellows (PLF) program selected four individuals for our third cohort. The PLF offers participants the opportunity to learn and contribute alongside the Provost’s Office Team in work that governs academic affairs at Northern Arizona University (NAU). Participants will develop and enhance their leadership skills by examining the day-to-day working and decision-making processes of academic affairs governance. They will learn about strategic academic affairs areas, develop their knowledge of current and emerging challenges in higher education, assess their own interest in university administration, and become better prepared for administrative roles.
During Fall 2023 semester, all fellows will spend at least 1-2 days fully immersed, shadowing vice and/or associate vice provosts across the following Provost Office Team’s sectors listening, learning and observing:
- Academic operations, policy, resource planning, student support services, and online;
- Curriculum and program planning and development, and graduate education
- Curriculum assessment, academic program review, and General Studies
- Faculty and academic professional policy and practice;
- Global engagement/affairs and international education;
- Statewide operations and programming for adult and non-traditional students, workforce development, and business partnerships.
At the end of Fall 2024, the selected fellows will work as a team to pitch a project idea to advance NAU’s Elevating Excellence. A team of representatives from the Provost Office Team will provide feedback on this project idea prior to implementation. The development and implementation of this program will occur Spring 2024, for a final campus-wide presentation April 2024.
2024-2025 Provost Fellows
Denielle Perry
Associate Professor, School of Earth and Sustainability
Alark Saxena
Assistant Professor, School of Forestry
Eylin Palamaro-Munsell
Associate Chair, Psychological Sciences
Associate Teaching Professor, Psychological Sciences
Department of Psychological Sciences
Kara Attrep
Associate Teaching Professor, Honors College