Provost Johannes Britz (far right) joined with Chancellor Lovell (3rd from left) & UWM staff members in celebrating Bike to Campus Day May 17, 2012.

Colleagues,

UWM's faculty and staff make a difference every day in our students' lives, in Milwaukee, in the state of Wisconsin, and in the global arena. I want to thank all of you for your dedication to UWM and for fostering a culture of care. At a time of societal stress, I see this university as the key to the region's future well-being.

                                                Take care,
                                                Johannes Britz

Links of Interest
http://www4.uwm.edu/chancellor/budget/
http://www.uwsa.edu/hr/benefits/budgetbill.htm
Message to Graduate Assistants

About Academic Affairs at UWM

The Provost’s Office provides academic leadership to the University in its core work of scholarship, teaching, and learning. Our work is aligned with Chancellor Lovell’s two critical goals of raising UWM’s stature as a research university and ensuring that UWM fulfills its commitment to student access, success, and diversity.

Provost’s Office staff members are focused on

• Implementing Access to Success, UWM’s comprehensive enrollment management recruitment and retention initiative;
• Building on excellence in our graduate and undergraduate program array and fostering the development of new programs and online offerings;
• Promoting growth in scholarship across the university through scrupulous attention to best practice in faculty/staff recruitment, promotion, retention, and tenure processes;
• Enhancing diversity in students, staff, and faculty;
• Ensuring that the university’s infrastructure for research, teaching, and learning (i.e., UWM Libraries, UITS, CIPD) meets campus needs and that budget, personnel, and space management are similarly aligned with our mission;
• Assessing institutional progress in meeting our goals; and
• Supporting community partnerships.

The Division of Academic Affairs is comprised of twelve degree-granting schools and colleges, the Graduate School, and the School of Continuing Education, as well as the Academic Opportunity Center; Assessment and Institutional Research; the Center for International Education; the Center for Instructional and Professional Development; the Center for Urban Initiatives & Research; the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education; Employee Development; the Honors College; the Learning Technology Center; Office of Undergraduate Research; Panther Academic Support Services; Research Cyberinfrastructure; the Roberto Hernandez Center; the Student Accessibility Center, the Student Support Services Program; TRIO and Pre-College Programs, and the UWM Libraries.

I hope you will find this website to be a useful resource. New information about campus and UW System initiatives is added every week, so I encourage you to be a regular visitor. If you have questions or suggestions about the site, please contact me at britz@uwm.edu.