
Maureen MacDonald
Provost and Vice-President (Academic)
Read Past Editions of Provost MacDonald’s Newsletter
McMaster’s Provost and Vice-President (Academic), Dr. Maureen MacDonald, serves as the university’s Chief Academic Officer and Chief Budget Officer. Through this lens, Provost MacDonald curates news from around campus that she shares in her newsletter to faculty and staff members.
Notes from 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 MacDonald and with the subject line, Notes from the Provost.
Past editions of the newsletter can be accessed via the archives below.
Information Box Group
October 2025 Read this Edition
Strengthening Academic Leadership
- Inaugural Vice-Provost, Indigenous
- Senior Director, McMaster Continuing Education
- McMaster announces next chancellor
September 2025 Read this Edition
Impact through connection
- Installation of McMaster’s IX President
- National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
- Two new leaders join Equity and Inclusion Office
Summer 2025 (July-August) Read this Edition
Welcome from Provost MacDonald
- Ice Cream Social: Thank you faculty and staff
- New digital fluency learning series
- Search for a new VP and Dean (Health Sciences)
June 2025 Read this Edition
Transitions and milestones
- 2025-26 budget message
- Farewell and thank you to President Farrar
- Celebration marks end of Provost Tighe’s term
May 2025 Read this Edition
Welcoming our next Provost
- $15.5M investment in McMaster Nuclear Reactor
- Video: History of Vaccinology at McMaster
- Engineering startup AXIBO raises $12M
April 2025 Read this Edition
As the term ends, wishing you success
- Congratulations to MSU Teaching Award winners
- Gianni Parise named Vice-President, Research
- Open Educational Resources Grant Program
March 2025 Read this Edition
Message from Provost Tighe
- McMaster’s approach to tariffs
- Innis Library to reopen this fall
- Distinguished University Professors announced
February 2025 Read this Edition
Financial Sustainability Conversation
- Strengthening partnerships with industry
- McMaster among world’s Top 150 universities
- Acting Provost announcement
January 2025 Read this Edition
High Demand for McMaster education
- Leadership in nuclear innovation
- Budget message to the McMaster community
- Provisional guidelines for Gen AI in Research
December 2024 Read this Edition
In support of McMaster’s mission
- New global engagement strategy launched
- Search for Vice-President, Research underway
- Social Sciences dean reappointed
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