Office of the Provost
The Office of the Provost is a unit of direct support to the President's management. This task ensures the alignment and coordination of the different units with the University's academic project, guiding the definition of policies and articulating the roles of various actors within the university community.
Mariane Krause Jacob
Marianne Krause holds a degree in Psychology from UC Chile, with postgraduate studies in Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences and a PhD in Psychology from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. She is currently a full professor at the UC Chile School of Psychology, where she has held numerous leadership. Director of the School. From March 2021 to March 2025, she served as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. Her academic and professional work has focused on research into psychotherapeutic processes, depression, and psychosocial and community interventions. She has been serving as Provost of UC Chile since 2025. Her academic and professional work has focused on research into psychotherapeutic processes, depression, and psychosocial and community interventions. She is also an expert in qualitative methodology, which she applies in her research and shares through specialized courses and consulting services, both nationally and internationally. She has been serving as Provost of UC Chile since 2025.
Core Functions
Its the unipersonal authority of the University in charge of subrogating the President in case of absence or temporary impediment and carrying out all functions explicitly delegated by the President.
a) Collaborates, together with the President, in the government of the University and represents it before all the instances determined by the Rector.
b) Participates actively, together with the Provost for Institutional Management and the Vice Presidents, in the University's strategic planning process, ensuring its progress and compliance, as well as the development of all necessary functions.
c) Proposes development policies and activities in the areas of arts, culture and heritage, mental health and welfare of the community in general, as well as gender equity, according to the principles and values that govern the University, and implements and coordinates plans in these areas with the corresponding agencies of the Office of the President.
To learn more about the duties and functions of the Provost, read the Regulations of the Organizations that work with the Office of the President.
Direcciones de la Prorrectoría
Offices
Office of Academic Development
Studies, proposes, and implements policies to strengthen academic careers at UC Chile, managing processes such as hiring, promotion, evaluation, and dismissal of professors, as well as coordinating horizontal initiatives, supporting advisory committees, and collaborating with other units in this area.
Director
Office of Development Planning
The unit is responsible for coordinating the formulation and review of development plans for academic units and agencies of the Senior Management. It monitors and evaluates the impact of the University's development plans in coordination with other UC departments. It also participates in the economic evaluation of academic programs, advising the Office of the Provost, the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, and the Office of the Vice President for Finance.
Office of Arts and Culture
The Office of Arts and Culture is responsible for designing, proposing, and supporting actions in the field of the arts and culture that are developed within UC Chile, in coordination with the Office of the Provost for Institutional Management, other Offices of Vice Presidents, and Academic and Administrative units, as well as with external public and private actors.
Director
Office of Cultural Heritage
The unit that seeks to promote the process of safeguard –selection, valorization, conservation, research, management and diffusion – of the distinct heritage collections that University’s estimate to put under its protection and responsability, working jointly and transversally with the units and internal teams that manage the cultural heritage.
Office of Mental Health, Community, and Wellness
The mission of the Office of Mental Health, Community and Welfare is to provide sustainable, evidence-based care for the well-being of the entire UC Chile community, coordinating policies and actions in collaboration with various academic and administrative units to foster healthy environments, support comprehensive development, and promote an institutional culture of care.
Office of Gender Equality
The mission of the Office of Gender Equality is to strengthen the university’s institutional framework in this area, promoting policies and actions that ensure a culture free of discrimination and that integrate the principle of gender equality in all areas of the UC Chile community through training, monitoring, inter-institutional coordination, and the development of mechanisms that promote shared responsibility and wellbeing.
Director
Office of the University Library Administration UC Chile
The unit responsible for ensuring that libraries are properly managed and integrated into the University’s teaching, learning, research and outreach processes by responding to its needs, granting timely and efficient access to information resources, and ensuring proper management of human, physical, financial and technological resources.
Director
Executive Direction
The main function of the Executive Office is to coordinate the departments and areas of the Office of the Provost, administer its resources, and develop and manage its budget. In addition, its functions include coordinating projects related to academic management, and, in particular, the financing of the academic staff, supporting development plans, participating in processes of economic evaluation for programs, and carrying out the tasks assigned by the Vice President.
