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Office of the Provost

Promoting and Advancing Northwestern’s Academic Mission

Welcome to the Office of the Provost

The Office of the Provost provides the resources and infrastructure that empower Northwestern's community of scholars to pursue their greatest scholarly ambitions.

Provost Kathleen Hagerty

As Northwestern's chief academic officer, Provost Hagerty works with deans, directors and administrative units to set academic priorities and polices and coordinate initiatives to support graduate and undergraduate education, faculty appointments and promotion, and space and resource planning. She also has primary responsibility for preparing Northwestern’s annual budget.

Provost Hagerty is the First Chicago Professor of Finance in Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management.

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For Faculty

The Office of the Provost oversees faculty policies and connects faculty with a wide range of career and work/life resources.

Updates and Announcements

Upcoming Events

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2026

Independence Day (observed) - University Closed

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Announcements

Adrian Randolph to step down as Weinberg dean after the 2026-27 academic year

June 24, 2026
from Northwestern Now
Adrian Randolph, dean of the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and Henry Wade Rogers Professor of the Humanities, will step down after leading Northwestern’s largest, oldest and most comprehensive academic division since 2015.

Proposed federal research funding regulation revisions

June 10, 2026
from Office of the Provost
On May 29, 2026, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published a proposed revision to the federal grantmaking framework that could have meaningful implications for the administration of federally funded research.