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| Provost William A. Covino |
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 William A. Covino, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, is the University's Chief Academic Officer. Reporting to the President, the Provost is a member of the President's Cabinet and serves as senior officer in the President's absence. The Provost coordinates and implements academic goals, educational policy, curricular planning and development, academic program review, academic personnel actions, faculty and staff development, resource development and allocation, assessment, professional and regional accreditation, and strategic and master academic planning. Specific units reporting to the Provost include the six academic colleges, the Stockton Center, faculty affairs, enrollment management, research and sponsored programs, library services, institutional research, service learning and community engagement, extended education, and international education. The Provost works with faculty representatives within the context of a statewide collective bargaining agreement, represents the University administration in the affairs of the Academic Senate, and is responsible for promoting a collegial atmosphere and encouraging shared governance in developing academic policy.
William A. Covino became Provost in August 2006. Provost Covino came to CSU Stanislaus after eight years at Florida Atlantic University, where he was Chair of the Department of English and Dean of the College of Arts and Letters. He has also held faculty positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago and San Diego State University. His teaching has included courses on persuasion, imagination, rhetoric, literacy, and literature, and his scholarly record includes numerous chapters, articles, and reviews, as well as five books: The Art of Wondering: An Eccentric History of the Composing Imagination; Forms of Wondering: A Dialogue on Writing, for Writers; Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy: An Eccentric History of the Composing Imagination; Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions, Boundaries (co-edited with David A. Jolliffe); and The Elements of Persuasion. His current research focuses on how the development of shared perspectives and solutions can create a "rhetoric of collegiality" in the 21st-century university. Provost Covino received a PhD in English from the University of Southern California in 1981. |
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