Provost and Associate Provosts

Jamila Bookwala, Provost

Maintaining a central focus on the mission and vision of Gettysburg College, the Provost oversees the overall academic life, including all academic departments and programs, the library, and academic centers at the core of the educational mission of the College

Major Areas of Responsibility

  • Strategic and budgetary planning
  • Shared governance
  • Academic Division vision, mission, and goals
  • Academic programs and budgets
  • Advancement of academic programs and division
  • Academic Division policies and processes
  • Faculty appointments
  • Faculty tenure and promotion
  • Faculty compensation and course releases
  • Academic Centers, Offices, and Departments

Committee Assignments

  • Presidents Council
  • Faculty Council
  • Faculty Finance Committee
  • Faculty Personnel Committee
  • Middle States Review

Direct Reports

  • Associate Provost for Academic Affairs
  • Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs
  • Director of Academic Administration
  • Executive Director of the Eisenhower Institute
  • Dean of Libraries
  • Registrar
  • Department and program chairs

Jeanne Hamming, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs

Serving the Provost office as senior leadership in the academic divisions, working with faculty and staff to lead institution academic and curricular matters

Major Areas of Responsibility

  • Academic innovation
  • Advising
  • Core curriculum
  • Academic major and minor program review and assessment
  • High impact educational practices
  • Curricular and co-curricular integration
  • Assessment of student learning
  • Middle States Accreditation

Committee Assignments

  • Academic Policy and Program (APPC)
  • Academic Standing
  • Global Study Programs
  • Student Life
  • Learning Assessment (COLA)
  • Student Enrollment and Retention (SERC)
  • Middle States Review
  • First Year Seminars

Direct Reports

  • Dean of Student Success, Center for Student Success
  • Core Curriculum Review Committee
  • Core Curriculum Implementation Committee
  • Sunderman Conservatory of Music
  • Center for Global Education
  • Civil War Institute
  • The Gettysburg Review
  • The Schmucker Art Gallery

Michelle Schmidt, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs

Serving the Provost office as senior leadership creating a strategic vision for faculty affairs, providing comprehensive leadership, advocacy and coordination of the faculty experience

Major Areas of Responsibility

  • Faculty recruitment (tenure-line, visiting, term, and part-time)
  • Faculty development, support, and resources
  • Faculty workload
  • Faculty recognition
  • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging and Climate
  • Annual and periodic faculty evaluation

Committee Assignments

  • Faculty Development (FDC)
  • Faculty Governance (FGC)
  • Institution Animal Care and Use (IACUC)
  • Institutional Review Board for Research with Human Subjects (IRB)
  • Middle States Review

Direct Reports

  • Director of JCCTL
  • Faculty search committee chairs
  • Johnson Endowed Chair