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.
Undergraduate Research Report 2008
Vice Chancellor Guillaume's November 21, 2008 Senate address
Meet our New Faculty for academic year 2008-09
Contact Us
Office of Academic Affairs
Alfred J. Guillaume Jr., Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Administration Building Room 247
Phone: (574) 520-4183
Fax: (574) 520-5549
