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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

Nov
24
2025

Thanksgiving Vacation begins at for students 6:00 PM. A calendar anomaly permits a longer Thanksgiving Break this year only.  This is not a permanent change to all Fall quarters.

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Thanksgiving Vacation begins at for students 6:00 PM. A calendar anomaly permits a longer Thanksgiving Break this year o...

Announcements

Committee members named in provost search

October 27, 2025
from Northwestern Now
The committee will begin its work immediately, with a goal of naming the new provost by Winter Quarter. The search will focus on internal candidates, and the committee invites nominations of tenured Northwestern faculty members. Hagerty will assist in the eventual transition.

Provost Kathleen Hagerty to step down by end of academic year

October 23, 2025
from Northwestern Now
Hagerty, who has served as Northwestern’s provost under three presidents since her September 2020 appointment, has been at the University for more than four decades. Northwestern will soon name a search committee to identify the University’s next provost.