Office of the VP Academic and Provost Directory

VP Academic and Provost

Dr. Elizabeth Croft

Tel: 250-721-7013| Fax: 250-721-7216 | provost@uvic.ca

University of Victoria
PO Box 1700 STN CSC
Victoria BC V8W 2Y2

• Biography and portfolio

Acting Vice-Provost

Dr. Susan Lewis

Tel: 250-721-6143 | viceprov@uvic.ca

• Biography and portfolio

Executive Director, Academic Resource Planning

Tony Eder

Tel: 250-721-7584 | teder@uvic.ca

• Strategic planning
• Policy development
• Budget, enrolment and resource planning
• leadership for core unit and institutional planning

Director, Academic Communications and Projects

Lindsay Gagel

Tel: 250-853-3958 | vpaccomms@uvic.ca

• VPAC portfolio communications
• Integrated Planning & Deans' Council support
• Strategic Framework implementation

Senior Manager, Research and Policy

Kalen Schick

Tel: 250-853-3958 | vpacresearch@uvic.ca 

• Policies
• Research support for projects and reports
• Senior leadership support

Administrator, Provost and Faculty Support

Vacant

Tel: 250-721-7626 | vpacproj@uvic.ca

• Senior level administrative support to the VP Academic and Provost
• Briefing files coordination for VP Academic and Provost
• Project management and administration across VPAC portfolios

Senior Analyst, Academic Resource Planning

Vacant

Tel: 250-721-6689

• Strategic advice on budget management and academic planning
• Operational budget management
• Budget training
• Financial and human resource analysis

Acting Associate Vice-President Academic Planning

Dr. Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey

Tel: 250-853-3761 | avpap@uvic.ca

• Biography and portfolio

Administrative Assistant to the AVP Academic Planning

Sandra Duggan

Tel: 250-853-3761 | apasst@uvic.ca

• Senior level administrative support to the AVP Academic Planning including calendar management
• Coordination of academic and administrative unit reviews
• Administrative management for Senate Committee on Planning

Project Coordinator, VPAC

Sarah Grindlay (on leave)

Tel: 250-721-7012 | vpacapal@uvic.ca

• Management of projects and initiatives within the Academic Planning portfolio, including External Reviews of Academic Units, Experiential Learning, Planning Tools, New Faculty and Librarian Supportive Communities Program, etc.
• Project stakeholder liaison
• Strategic communications management on behalf of Academic Planning projects and initiatives
  • Communications plans to support associated projects
  • Coordination of internal communications within Academic Planning
  • Coordination of print and web publications within Academic Planning
• VPAC office projects

AVP Faculty Relations and Academic Administration

Michele Parkin

Tel: 250-721-7114 | Fax: 250-721-7216 | avpfraa@uvic.ca

• Biography and portfolio

Administrative Assistant to the Director, Faculty Relations and AVP, Faculty Relations

Nora Mayer

Tel: 250-721-7114 | fraasec@uvic.ca

• Administrative support and calendar management for the AVP Faculty Relations and Academic Administration & the Director, Faculty Relations 
• Extra-to-load and contracts
• Committee support 

Director, Faculty Relations and Academic Administration

Pamela Richards

Tel: 250-721-7010 | directorfacultyrelations@uvic.ca

• Oversight of Faculty Relations Team 
• Oversight of Faculty/Librarian salary process and HR actions
• Collective Agreement/policy interpretation
• FOI requests, Privacy and Records Management

Associate Director, Faculty Relations and Academic Administration

Carrie Hunting

Tel: 250-472-4133 | adfraa@uvic.ca

• Leading all non-decanal academic recruitment
• Leading the implemention and operational efforts associated with changes to the Collective Agreement
• Faculty Relations advice and support to:
  
  • Faculty of Education

Faculty Relations Consultant

Francesca Pintucci

Tel: 250-472-5491 | frconsultant@uvic.ca

• Collective Agreement/policy interpretation
• Faculty Relations advice and support to:
  
  • Faculty of Engineering
  • Faculty of Fine Arts
  • Faculty of Human and Social Development
  • Libraries
  • Faculty of Social Sciences

Faculty Relations Consultant

Vacant

Tel: 250-588-1892 | frconsultant3@uvic.ca

• Collective Agreement/policy interpretation
• Faculty Relations advice and support to:
  
  • P. B. Gustavson School of Business
  • Faculty of Graduate Studies
  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Faculty of Law
  • Division of Medical Sciences
  • Faculty of Science

Senior Search Advisor

Aneesa Sousa

Email: frconsultant2@uvic.ca 

• Support for senior search processes

Faculty Relations Associate

Heidi Morrison

Tel: 250-472-5666 | fra@uvic.ca

• Collective Agreement processes including:
  • Recruitment, reappointment
  • Promotion and tenure
  • study/administrative leaves
• Support to Associate Vice-President Faculty Relations on bargaining and arbitration

VPAC Training and Development Manager

Alison Ambroso

Tel: 250-853-3815 | vpactraining@uvic.ca

• Coordinates and develops Academic Leadership Initiatives series, retreats, orientations and workshops for academic leaders

AVP Student Affairs

Jim Dunsdon

Tel: 250-853-3989 | Fax: 250-721-6610 | avpsa@uvic.ca

• Biography and portfolio

Assistant to the AVP Student Affairs 

Stephanie Raymond

Tel: 250-853-3989 | stuaadmnasst@uvic.ca

• Senior level administrative support and calendar management for the AVP Student Affairs
• Committee support 

Communications Officer

Erin King

Tel: 250-721-7375 | erinking@uvic.ca

• Communications leadership for Student Affairs
• Coordination of communications to students, including email, web and social media
• Coordination of internal communications within the Division

Project Manager

Jessica Gelowsky

Tel: 250-721-7556 | avpsasec@uvic.ca

• Coordination and delivery of important institutional and divisional priorities (e.g. Divisional or strategic changes, Strategic Enrolment Management, professional development opportunities, implementation of institutional plans).

Senior Development Officer

Karen Batchelor

studentaffairsdev@uvic.ca