NSU Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Michael Wanous shared remarks during this week’s faculty in-service welcome session.

It was great to see everyone at the All Campus Welcome this morning! I would like to follow up with a few details on some items that I mentioned during my brief remarks:

We would like to get your feedback on experiential learning ideas. Possible feedback mechanisms include working within your work group to provide feedback to your VP, sending me an email message, or setting up an appointment with me through Judy Lapka, Judy.Lapka@northern.edu.

We have launched an internal search for the next Associate VPAA. Please see the BOR website for more details. Thank you to those who have agreed to serve on the search committee:

• Lysbeth Benkert-Rasmussen, College of Arts and Sciences
• Kristi Bockorny, School of Business
• Anna Schwan, School of Education
• Ken Boulton, School of Fine Arts                               

We will be launching national searches for the Dean positions in Education and Business.

We will be sending a cross-functional team to the HLC Emerging Leaders in Assessment workshop in September. Thank you to those who will be participating:

• Britt Lorenz, Student Affairs
• Jordan Carrier, School of the Arts
• Sara Schmidt, School of Business
• Josh Hagen, College of Arts and Sciences
• Anna Schwan, School of Education
• Brenda Mammenga, Director of IR and Assessment
• Mike Wanous, Academic Affairs