Office of the Provost

Task Forces

  • Task Force on Creative and Interactive Technology
    Charge: To provide critical faculty-led input in shaping our aspirations for more deeply integrating digital humanities, creative computation, and computer gaming.
  • Task Force on Data Science and Analytics
    Charge: To begin the process of constructing a vision for the future of data science and data analytics at SMU.
  • Task Force on SMU Graduate School 
    Charge: To recommend appropriate roles and responsibilities for a graduate school at SMU.  Recommendations are based on an assessment of graduate education at SMU and a review of graduate schools at SMU Aspirational Peer and Colonial Group Institutions.
  • Colonial Group Faculty Survey Working Group 
    Charge: In partnership with the Faculty Senate, the Provost's Office is commissioning a Colonial Group Faculty Survey Working Group, consisting of a representative body of faculty members, to establish a plan for survey analysis and communication.