The Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs is located in University Hall, Just west of Providence Road on Stadium Blvd.
The mission of the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs is to serve as a catalyst for change that promotes quality of and provides access to academic programs in an effective and efficient manner. This mission can be achieved by providing leadership in the improvement of teaching and learning, supporting research and scholarship, and promoting cooperative initiatives that enable the campuses to accomplish their mutual goals.
According to Section 20.030 of the Collected Rules and Regulations, the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs provides support and advice to the President on the fulfillment of the academic mission of the University related to student learning and success, academic planning and programming, research and economic development. The Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs has responsibility for the University Press, Western Historical Manuscripts Collection, and other specific responsibilities assigned by the President. (Research and economic development now falls under the Vice President for Research and Economic Development.)
In addition, the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs advises and provides leadership and service to the UM Board of Curators, the President, and campus chancellors in formulating, interpreting, and implementing policies related to academic and student affairs.
The mission of the University of Missouri, as a land-grant university and Missouri's only public research and doctoral-level institution, is to discover, disseminate, apply, and preserve knowledge. It thereby stimulates learning by its students, and lifelong learning by Missouri citizens, and advances the health and well-being and the intellectual, cultural, social, and economic interests of the people of Missouri, the nation, and the world.