About the Office of the Provost

At the heart of UTEP’s academic community, the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs is responsible for the oversight of academic colleges, schools, departments and programs. Areas of leadership include:

• excellence in teaching and learning, research, and enhanced student success;
• recruitment, hiring, credentialing, development, retention, and promotion and tenure reviews of all faculty;
• strategic planning, development and evaluation of academic programs, and maintenance of academic standards;
• development of community college transfer pathways to promote seamless transitions and applicability of credit;
• coordination of internal assessment plans and academic review programs, and external regulatory or accreditory consideration of academic policies, plans and programs;
• and establishment and integrity of academic agreements with other universities, governmental agencies and non-profit entities.

Provost Dr. John Wiebe and his leadership team play a critical role in growing and promoting UTEP's nationally recognized model for enhancing the excellence of its highly competitive academic and research programs, while successfully offering access and affordability to a primarily first-generation and historically underserved student population.

Recognized as a very high-research-activity (R1) and community engaged institution by the Carnegie Foundation, UTEP enrolls more than 25,000 students and serves its primary constituency—residents of far west Texas, southern New Mexico, and northern Mexico—with 74 undergraduate programs, 71 master’s programs, 23 doctoral degree programs, and a growing portfolio of online degrees. UTEP employs more than 1,300 full-and part-time faculty members, and 95% of the tenured and tenure-track faculty hold doctoral degrees or the equivalent in their fields. With its 36%-Hispanic faculty composition, UTEP boasts one of the highest proportions of minority faculty among research universities in the United States.

Directly reporting units include UTEP’s eight colleges and schools:

• College of Education
• College of Engineering
• College of Health Sciences
• College of Liberal Arts
• College of Science
• School of Nursing
• School of Pharmacy
• Woody L. Hunt College of Business

Academic support units include:

• Academic Advising Center
• Campus Office of Undergraduate Research Initiatives (COURI)
• Centennial Museum
• Center for Civic Engagement (CCE)
• Center for Faculty Leadership and Development
• Developmental English
• Developmental Math
• Entering Student Program
• Extended University
• Graduate School
• Miner Learning Center
• University Honors Program