Office of the Senior Vice Provost

What We Do

The Office of the Senior Vice Provost advances the Office of the Provost’s mission by propelling excellence in teaching and learning, promoting global engagement, and supporting administration and planning.

Teaching, Learning, and Innovation

Oversees the Office of Teaching, Learning, and Innovation (OTLI), the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), the annual Provost’s Teaching and Learning RFPs, the Provost’s Conversations on Online Learning series (PCoOL), and the Science of Learning Research (SOLER) Initiative.

Columbia+

Columbia University’s online platform to engage alumni and learners from around the world through non-degree non-credit courses, events (live-streamed and recorded), and podcasts. Columbia+ also provides guidance, resources, and services to schools to leverage online technologies, and brings executive education opportunities to schools, and facilitates collaborations to meet needs of corporations and governments.

Global Academic Partnerships

Promote international engagement that enriches teaching, research, and learning through developing and supporting global partnerships. Oversees the Alliance Program and The Italian Academy.

Administration, Planning, and Financial Management

Manages the Provost’s Office budget and financial commitments. Oversees important areas of academic planning including space planning and policy development. Provides Human Resources support for Provost's Office employees, and operational support to the University Senate

Columbia University Press

Columbia University Press advances knowledge about our world through essential writing and research focusing on the global, the urban, and the contemporary. For more than 125 years, their widely reviewed and award-winning books have brought new ideas and foundational understanding to students, academics across different disciplines, policy makers, and general readers around the world.

The University Seminars

The University Seminars at Columbia University is an ongoing community of partnerships each of which is constituted by scholars from multiple academic departments and disciplines, often including experts from outside academia, and is devoted to the study of an institution, practice, or issue of theoretical and/or practical importance.  The University Seminars originated in, and maintains its vitality through, spontaneous intellectual initiatives and is therefore considered a movement.  The mission of The University Seminars collectively is to enable the intellectual missions of its individual constituent seminars.

Student and Postdoctoral/ARS Employees

In partnership with Labor and Employee Relations, manages relationships with the student and postdoctoral/associate research scientist unions, advances initiatives to ensure the strength and quality of relations with unionized academic employees, and provides guidance to the University, schools and department on labor and employee relations issues, dispute resolution, and bargaining agreement interpretation.

Initiatives

Provost's Working Group on Generative AI

The Provost’s Working Group on Generative AI is tasked to develop and evolve guidelines on the use (and procurement) of generative artificial intelligence tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini, and NotebookLM) by Columbia students, faculty, researchers and staff. The Working Group has assembled a growing collection of resources on the responsible use of generative AI. 

Accessibility Working Group

The accessibility working group developed the accessibility website to serve as a central resource for all faculty, staff, students, and visitors on accessibility-related information, procedures, and services at Columbia University.

TEAM

Soulaymane Kachani

Senior Vice Provost and Professor
[email protected]
(212) 854-1804

Michelle Baggan-Bacchus

Executive Director of Finance and Administration
[email protected]
(212) 854-5632

Steven H. Blomgren

Senior Director of Business Development and Corporate Partnerships
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(212) 851-7696

Susan Boynton

Director of The University Seminars
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(212) 854-2389

Andys M. Brito

Director of Human Resources
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(212) 854-5149

Adam S. Brown

Program Director, Science of LEarning Research (SOLER) Initiative
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Sarah Carswell

Executive Assistant, CTL
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(212) 851-7298

Lauren Close

Senior Communications and Outreach Manager 
[email protected]
(212) 854-7783

Jessica Cochran

Assistant Director, Finance and Operations, Alliance Program
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Jennifer Crewe

Associate Provost and Director, Columbia University Press
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(646) 741-4292

Amanda Irvin

Executive Director, CTL
[email protected]
(212) 853-0654

Sarah Jubinski

Associate Provost for International Services and Academic Planning
[email protected] 
(212) 854-3843

Emmanuel Kattan

Director, Alliance Program
[email protected]
(646) 745-8592

Tshaye Meaza

Senior Associate Director of Finance
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(212) 854-9581

Linda Mischel Eisner

Executive Director of Labor and Employee Relations
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(212) 854-9557

Aurora Morrison

Executive Assistant
[email protected]
(212) 853-5477

Georgia Mary O'Neil

Communications and Administrative Coordinator [email protected]

 

Mark L. Phillipson

Director of Graduate Student Programs and Services
[email protected]
(212) 854-0210

Meredith Shin

Assistant Director of Finance
[email protected]
(212) 853-5476

Cristopher Torres

Assistant Director, Human Resources
ct3235@columbia.edu
(212) 853-4962

Rainah Umlauf

Senior Associate Director of Global Academic Partnerships
[email protected]
(212) 853-2123

 

Marina Zamalin

Associate Provost for Online Education 
and Senior Director for Instructional Technology 
and Columbia Plus
[email protected]
 

Contact Us

405 Low Library
535 West 116th Street, MC 4343 
New York, NY 10027 

(212) 854-0362