The Office of the Provost oversees all academic units on the Bloomington campus and coordinates initiatives related to faculty, creative activity, and professional development; sustainability; and student success and well-being. The provost promotes a campus environment of expansive inclusivity, rigorous intellectual inquiry, and compassionate engagement with the community in Bloomington and around the world.
2022-Present
Rahul Shrivastav is Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor. His research on speech perception and production helps design better measurement systems for treatment outcomes, improved hearing aids, cochlear implants, and mobile phones, and assessment and screening tools for a variety of diseases. He served as Vice President for Instruction at the University of Georgia, earned his doctoral degree in speech and hearing sciences from IU Bloomington.
2021-2022
John S. Applegate served as Interim Provost and Executive Vice President from July 2021 to February 2022. A distinguished environmental law scholar, he is the James L. Calamaras Professor of Law at the IU Maurer School of Law. Before being appointed interim provost, Applegate served for over a decade as IU’s executive vice president for university academic affairs.
2012-2021
During her tenure as provost and executive vice president from 2012 to 2021, Lauren Robel oversaw reorganization of campus units such as the Luddy School and the School of Public Health, as well as creation of the Media School, the Hamilton Lugar School, and the Eskenazi School. Previously, Robel served as dean of the Maurer School of Law, where she has now returned to teach and research as the Val A. Nolan Professor of Law.
2007-2012
When McRobbie became IU’s 18th president in 2007, Karen Hanson, then dean of the Hutton Honors College and Rudy Professor of Philosophy, was named provost and executive vice president.
2006-2007
IU’s first provost was Michael A. McRobbie. McRobbie joined IU in 1997 as the university’s first vice president for information technology and chief information officer. He was appointed vice president for research in 2003. McRobbie was appointed interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at IU Bloomington in 2006.
