Provost's Office

Dr. Beth Weatherby is the Provost at Southwest Minnesota State University. She began her duties July 1, 2007.

The Provost is the chief academic officer at SMSU and the number two administrator at the University. The Provost is in charge of Academic and Student Affairs.

Prior to becoming Provost, Dr. Weatherby was the Dean of the College of Arts, Letters & Sciences from March 2004 to June 2007. Prior to that she was interim dean from July 2002 through February 2004.

Weatherby came to SMSU in 1992 as an associate professor of English. She was the Creative Writing director from 1992 through 2000.  She received her Doctor of Arts in English and Creative Writing from the University of New York at Albany in 1992. She has a B.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Evanston, Ill. Weatherby won the President's Exceptional Performance Award in 2005 and 2006, and was a Minnesota Book Award winner for Short Fiction in 1998 for her work, Small Invasions. She was a Salzburg Seminar Fellow in 1998, and in 1997 received a Loft-McKnight Artist Fellowship in Creative Prose.

She is a co-founder of the Women's Studies Program and the New Works Faculty Forum at SMSU, and is on numerous campus and community boards and committees.

"I'm very honored to be named the new provost at SMSU," said Weatherby. "The university is heading in a positive direction under the guidance of President Danahar, and I look forward to this new challenge."

Provost
Dr. Beth Weatherby
Founders Hall 214
Phone:  507-537-6246
Fax:  507-537-6577
Email:  weatherby@southwestmsu.edu

Associate Provost
Dr. Mary Hickerson
Founders Hall 216
507-537-6253
mhickerson@SouthwestMSU.edu

Administrative Assistant
Lorraine Weverka
Founders Hall 212
Phone:  507-537-6246
Fax:  507-537-6577
Email:  weverka@southwestmsu.edu

Mailing Address
Provost Office
Southwest Minnesota State University
1501 State Street
Marshall, MN 56258-1598