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The Office of Academic Affairs strengthens the campus community by promoting the academic mission, advocating for
faculty, and enhancing teaching and learning.
The office oversees and supports faculty careers from recruitment through hiring, promotion and tenure, and
retirement. It supports student learning through a variety of programs that develop and maintain excellence in
instruction, in curriculum, and in the academic environment.
Academic Affairs commits to the following actions:
- safeguard the primacy of Academic Affairs
- respect unit administrators’ autonomy
- advocate for and represent Academic Affairs to the rest of the university
- provide strong and honest representation of academic unit needs
- understand and value each other’s work
- support team decisions
VISION
To
exceed the highest academic expectations for comprehensive,
metropolitan universities.
MISSION
To provide excellence in academic programs; to
educate students to become life-long learners, productive, and
responsible citizens in the global community; and to contribute to
the advancement of knowledge.
VALUES
We value education as essential to democracy and
the quality of life; we value open and free inquiry; we value
academic freedom and an unfettered exchange of ideas in a spirit of
shared governance; we value self-directed learning and independent
thought; we value collaborative learning between professor and
student; we value pluralism and diversity in all its manifestations;
we value education that leads to appreciation of and participation
in the arts; we value life-long learning; and we value civic
engagement, global awareness, and environmental sustainability.
Vice
Chancellor Guillaume's October 19, 2007 Senate address
For more information, please contact:
Office of Academic Affairs
Alfred J. Guillaume Jr., Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Administration Building Room 247
Ph: (574) 520-4183
Fax: (574) 520-5549
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