The Engagement Team supports and promotes the priorities and mission of the Office of the Provost through executive communications, creative services, events, communications, and engagement with internal and external stakeholders to advance university priorities and initiatives. Our team is led by Ashley Green, chief of staff for the Office of the Provost. Dr. Green oversees communications, events, and executive communications, allowing the team to streamline and coordinate efforts across units.
Communications
Provide strategic communications support through outreach, resource sharing and communications alignment, including storytelling efforts, design, website management and event promotion.
Contact: provostcomms@msu.edu
Executive Communications
Collaborate to support executive communications for the provost, including written remarks, talking points, and high-level email outreach and coordination.
Events
Design, manage and implement university-wide events, including commencement ceremonies, faculty promotion, and recognition and award ceremonies.
Contact: provostevents@msu.edu
Communications
The Office of the Provost communications team works with unit leaders and their teams to identify and understand goals and establish priorities to deliver successful communication solutions. This includes an array of projects such as content creation, graphic design, storytelling, collaboration with campus partners, dissemination of messages and leadership support.
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Resources
Below are resources and information on how to connect with our communications team.
- Collaboration: Offices and units can connect through our meeting intake form. You can tell us more about your project and how we can best collaborate.
- Storytelling: Our team helps to tell the story of academic excellence and student success at MSU. Learn more about what we look for in our story guidelines and media overview [PDF].
- Social media: The Office of the Provost connects with the community through Instagram and LinkedIn. Follow us to learn more about what is happening at MSU to advance the academic mission and support student success, and reach out if you have collaboration ideas.
Executive Communications
Our executive communicator writes remarks and talking points for speaking engagements, crafts email communications and develops other high-level outreach messaging on behalf of the provost. She works to maintain custody of the academic focus of the provost’s communications, to connect individual events and engagements to broader Office of the Provost and university-wide strategic goals and planning, and to effectively contextualize executive communications in relation to the university’s missions, values, aspirations and matters arising.
Resources
Below are resources for requesting the provost for an engagement and viewing recent messages from our office.
- Request Availability: If you would like to invite the provost to speak at an event, please fill out the availability form.
- Messages from the Office: Recent messages sent out by the Office of the Provost can be viewed on our news and updates page.
“One fundamental truth I realized long ago is that Michigan State University is a leading global public research university because of the depth and breadth of the lived experiences and perspectives represented across our community. That depth and breadth is our strength. It makes us who we are. And it is what will continue to provide stability and advance our aspirations into the future.”
- Thomas D. Jeitschko, Ph.D. (he/him)
Interim Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Events
The events team is responsible for the design, management, and implementation of university-wide events, including commencement ceremonies, faculty promotion, recognition and award ceremonies. Our team also collaborates closely with various units across the university such as the Office of Faculty and Academic Staff Development, Student Life and Engagement, University Advancement and Faculty and Academic Staff Affairs.
Events Team
Heather Fink, CMP
Senior University Academic Events Planner
Ashley Day
Event Coordinator
Resources
Below are resources and information on how to connect with our events team.
- Events: Our website includes a list of events for the academic year. Event information is sent directly to those invited. Contact provostevents@msu.edu for more information.
- Commencement: Our events team manages a separate website for commencement ceremonies. It includes information for graduates, families, faculty and other guests. Visit commencement.msu.edu for details and contact commencement@msu.edu with questions.
- Honorifics and All-University Awards: Faculty at MSU are recognized at every level to elevate the stature of MSU’s national and global impact. This includes the All-University Awards Ceremony held each spring to honor a suite of recipients. Learn more on the honorifics page.
