Elizabeth Canny
Senior Assistant Provost for Faculty Administration
Office of the Provost, Ballou Hall (2^nd fl.), Medford/Somerville
Supervisor: Jamshed Bharucha, Provost and Sr. Vice President

• Manages Provost's office on 2^nd floor of Ballou Hall
  
  
• Oversees academic appointments, including tenure and promotion (T&P), continuation agreements, and contracts
  
  
• Responds to inquiries from faculty and deans on University and school bylaws and policies, such as faculty appointments, T&P issues/procedures, endowed professorships, sabbatic leaves, and tuition/grant-in-aid
  
  
• Works with legal counsel on bylaw revisions and legal matters
  
  
• Monitors PAFs (Personnel Action Forms) and other actions for full-time faculty
  
  
• Supports Trustee Academic Affairs Committee and Provost's Council
  
  

Suna Grassi
Assistant Provost
Boston office: 75 Kneeland St. (9^th fl.)
Medford/Somerville office: 20 Professors Row
Supervisor: Peggy Newell, Vice Provost

• Works with the Provost and the Vice Provost on a variety of initiatives, including academic planning, priority setting, and facility planning
  
  
• Is responsible for oversight and fiscal management of Office of the Provost budgets and discretionary accounts. Is Budget Fiscal Officer (BFO) of the Provost's Office, Provost's laboratory, Office of the Vice Provost, Office for Technology Licensing & Industry Collaboration, Boards of Overseers office, Digital Collections and Archives, Tufts Institute for the Environment, WSSS, Institute for Global Leadership, Fares Center, European Center, Department of Laboratory Animal Medicine, and Office of Institutional Research & Evaluation
  
  
• Manages Human Resources responsibilities for Provost's units
  
  
• Assists with management of the Vice Provost's office
  
  
• Provides high level of oversight of IT systems and websites for the Vice Provost's office
  
  
• Edits and publishes Research News @ Tufts, an online newsletter
  
  
• Provides oversight of Research Days
  
  

Marcella Tanona
Assistant to the Provost

• Manages the Provost's Calendar
  
  
• Plans special events, particularly for emeriti faculty
  
  
• Coordinates degree lists
  
  
• Makes travel arrangements
  
  
• Supports office budgetary accounts
  
  

Marcy Archfield
Budget and Operations Administrator
Office of the Provost, Ballou Hall (1^st fl.), Medford/Somerville
Supervisor: Suna Grassi, Assistant Provost

• Manages Office of the Provost budgets and discretionary accounts
  
  
• Monitors paperwork for projects and funding commitments to faculty, students, and organizations
  
  
• Manages Provost's office on 1^st floor of Ballou Hall
  
  
• Assists senior staff on special projects, such as cross-school initiatives, student issues, research issues, academic planning, priority setting, and facilities projects

Caroline Campbell
Program Development Director
Office of the Provost, Ballou Hall (1^st fl.), Medford/Somerville
Supervisor: Mary Y. Lee, Associate Provost

• Develops, implements, manages, and is primary contact person for Associate Provost Lee's projects and programs
  
  
• Manages Associate Provost Lee's grant proposals, including researching and preparing application, developing budget, co-writing and editing proposal and all required reports, collecting and compiling supporting documents, and coordinating submission
  
  
• Assists in drafting, editing, and coordinating submission of articles written for publication
  
  
• Manages Associate Provost Lee's calendar and correspondence

• Manages websites for CELT (with Kevin Walsh) and for University-wide Committee on Teaching and Faculty Development (UCTFD)
  
  
• Manages e-list for UCTFD
  
  

Catherine Doheney
Secretary of the Faculty for Arts, Sciences and Engineering

• Schedules faculty meetings, and maintains records of faculty minutes, for AS&E, A&S, Engineering, GSAS and the College of Special Studies
  
  
• Maintains the Faculty Info and Retiree webpage: http://ase.tufts.edu/faculty-info/
  
  
• Supports several AS&E Committees: T&P Committee, B&P Committee, Executive Committee, Committee on Committees, the Curriculum Committee for A&S and Engineering, and the Oversight Panel.
  
  
• Maintains historical data on AS&E committees, procedural documentation, annual committee lists, committee election results etc.
  
  
• Updates Committee list, Info Book and New Faculty Bios, yearly
  
  

Laura Duncan
Assistant to the Provost for Communications

• Manages Provost's correspondence
  
  
• Coordinates Academic Strategy Forum meetings and other events
  
  
• Develops and maintains content of office website and coordinates website projects
  
  
• Edits and prepares memos and reports
  
  
• Liaison to other departments, including the Overseers office and Communications
  
  

Jessica Shepard
Staff Assistant
Office of the Provost, Ballou Hall (1^st fl.), Medford/Somerville
Supervisor: Marcy Archfield, Budget and Operations Administrator

• Assists with departmental budget forms, receipt for BFO signature, and other budgetary matters
  
  
• Coordinates many events and meetings for Provost’s office
  
  
• Assists Vice Provost with affiliation agreements
  
  
• Assists Director of Diversity Education and Development for AS&E with posting AS&E faculty position announcements on the New England Higher Education Recruitment Consortium website
  
  
• Maintains website for the University Council on Graduate Education (UCGE)
  
  
• Coordinates Provost's Fellowship process