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
Indiana University South Bend is the comprehensive undergraduate and graduate regional campus of Indiana University that is committed to serving north central Indiana and southwestern Michigan. Its mission is to create, disseminate, preserve, and apply knowledge. The campus is committed to excellence in teaching, learning, research, and creative activity; to strong liberal arts and sciences programs and professional disciplines; to acclaimed programs in the arts and nursing/health professions; and to diversity, civic engagement, and a global perspective. IU South Bend supports student learning, access and success for a diverse residential and non-residential student body that includes under-represented and international students. The campus fosters student-faculty collaboration in research and learning. Committed to the economic development of its region and state, Indiana University South Bend meets the changing educational and research needs of the community and serves as a vibrant cultural resource.
Approved by the IU Board of Trustees
November 2005
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 October 16, 2009 Senate address
Meet our New Faculty for academic year 2009-10
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
