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Office of the Provost & Vice-President (Academic)

Academic Excellence

Provost Newsletter

Susan Tighe
Provost and Vice-President (Academic)

Read Past Editions of Provost Tighe’s Newsletter

McMaster’s Provost and Vice-President (Academic), Dr. Susan Tighe, serves as the university’s Chief Academic Officer and Chief Budget Officer. Through this lens, Provost Tighe curates news from around campus that she shares in her newsletter to faculty and staff members.

News from the Office of the Provost provides “news you can use,” updates and celebratory posts. It also introduces our campus community to working groups and university units that people may have heard of, but may not know who members are or what they do.

Look for the newsletter in your email inbox, from Provost Tighe and with the subject line, News from the Provost.

Past editions of the newsletter can be accessed via the archives below.

Information Box Group

November 2024 Read this edition

A new chapter

  • McMaster’s budget process
  • Investment decarbonization goals met
  • Five named Canada Research Chairs

October 2024 Read this edition

Supporting student success

  • McMaster hosts Canada-Caribbean Symposium
  • President’s Award for Teaching and Learning
  • McMaster Dialogues addresses differing views

September 2024 Read this edition

Time for thoughtfulness

  • Support for faculty leadership and development
  • Homecoming reintroduced at McMaster
  • New Postdoc Entrepreneur Fellowship

Summer 2024 (July-August) Read this edition

Thank you faculty and staff

  • Support for research excellence
  • Updated AI guidelines for Teaching and Learning
  • McMaster at the Paris 2024 Olympics

June 2024 Read this edition

Year-end message of unity

  • Class of ’24 defined by resilience
  • 2024-25 budget message
  • McMaster ranks 30th in Impact Rankings

May 2024 Read this edition

SAF Symposium: Innovation at Mac

  • Vice-Provost, Indigenous position created
  • Spring Convocation, Black Excellence celebration
  • New University Registrar

April 2024 Read this edition

Eclipse experience at McMaster

  • Task Force on Graduate Funding report
  • New Indigenous student bursary program
  • Provisional guidelines for employee use of AI

March 2024 Read this edition

McMaster launches AI committee

  • Our budget update to the McMaster community
  • Reserve your tickets to eclipse viewing party
  • Dean Swett reappointed

February 2024 Read this edition

You’re invited to eclipse viewing event

  • Learn more about generative AI
  • Funding for health and well-being ideas
  • World-leading Indigenous Studies MA program

January 2024 Read this edition

Meet the members of JIACG

  • Commitment to international students
  • Our budget message to the McMaster community
  • Professor Entrepreneur Fellowship

December 2023 Read this edition

Reflections on violence against women

  • Provost’s Financial Forum presentation
  • Budget Model Review report now available
  • 10-year Campus Master Plan published

October-November 2023 Read this edition

Meet McMaster’s Provost Council

  • Student Accessibility Services (SAS) review
  • Library opens ‘hidden’ special collections
  • Generative AI Task Force publishes report

September 2023 Read this edition

Welcome to the Fall Term

  • Generative AI in the classroom
  • New faculty leadership and development page
  • McMaster’s safety app