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The provost is the chief academic officer and the senior university officer next to the president. The provost is the president's principal adviser in all matters pertaining to the development of a well-conceived and organized curriculum, administered and taught by a faculty of the highest qualifications. The provost oversees planning for the university's educational programs and works with the vice presidents and deans in accomplishing the university's educational objectives. The provost oversees budget development by the colleges and monitors these budgets throughout the academic year.
The five degree-granting colleges - Arts and Letters, Business, Science and Technology, Education and Psychology, and Health - report to the provost, as well as the Graduate School, Honors College, and the University Libraries. The provost monitors the planning, development, and revision of academic programs and supervises all processes involving the academic staff of the university. The provost is advised by a provost's council, departmental, decanal, and university-wide personnel committees, and by the Academic Council, the Graduate Council, Council of Chairs, and the Faculty Senate. The Office of the Provost strives to foster a learning environment in which students and faculty work together to pursue and develop new knowledge, to develop innovative ways to apply that knowledge, and to share their knowledge with all who are interested.
Biography
Dr. Robert Lyman serves as provost at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Before coming to Southern Miss, Lyman served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C.
Prior to joining Appalachian State University, Lyman served as dean of the School of Arts and Letters at North Georgia College and State University from 2003-05.
From 1975-78, Lyman was a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Alabama Medical School in Birmingham, and from 1978-2003, he served as a department head within the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.
For 19 of these years, he was executive director of Brewer-Porch Children’s Center, a children’s mental health treatment, research and training program affiliated with the college’s Department of Psychology.
During his 25 years at the University of Alabama, he held other academic positions including chair of the Department of Psychology and coordinator of the Clinical Child Psychology Doctoral Training Program.
He is a well-published scholar in psychology with more than 90 academic publications and presentations to his credit.
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