Provost (education) - Other Titles and Uses

Other Titles and Uses

State university systems in the United States are the state universities operated and funded primarily by the state government. (They may include multiple administratively independent campuses, or an integrated multi-campus state university). In some state university systems, provost may be the title held by the head of branch campus. For example, until recently the chancellors of the Newark and Camden campuses of Rutgers University in New Jersey were known as provosts.

Sometimes the chief academic officer or chief medical officer of a university medical center (also academic medical center) holds the title of provost.

In some universities, the chief administrative officer of a large academic division may hold a provostial title. Finally, in some colleges and universities, the title of provost (and the function of deputy to the president or chancellor) may be separate from the function of chief academic officer.

Provost is the style of the heads of University College London, Royal College of Art; Oriel, Queen's and Worcester Colleges at Oxford; King's College at Cambridge; Trinity College at Dublin and St Leonard's College (University of St Andrews) The chairman of the governors of Eton College is also called a provost.