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About the Vice President for Instruction and Associate Provost for Academic Affairs
The Vice President for Instruction and Associate Provost for Academic Affairs serves as the Provost’s chief advisor on matters relating to academic affairs, strategic management of educational programs, instructional effectiveness and academic assessment. The Officer oversees academic program development, comprehensive program assessment, programmatic accreditation processes, educational outreach programs, the faculty career development process, including faculty appointment, tenure, promotion, and periodic peer review and the interprofessional faculty development initiative. The Officer promotes efforts to enhance teaching and learning, academic and professional excellence, improvement of the overall quality of the academic experience. This occurs through the units that report to this office, as well as, teaching initiatives undertaken directly with schools, colleges, and individual faculty members. The Officer is administratively responsible for the Georgia Statewide Area Health Education Center Program Office, Center for Patient and Family Centered Care, Division of Continuing Education, Library, the Center for Patient Safety and the Division of Visual and Instructional Design. The Vice President for Instruction and Associate Provost for Academic Affairs is a member of the President's Cabinet and serves, in the absence of Provost, as Chief Academic Officer. The Officer also has other duties as assigned by the Provost.
Area Health Education Center (AHEC) - A partnership coordinated between Medical College of Georgia and Mercer University School of Medicine, the Georgia Statewide AHEC Network is a complex, multi-disciplinary effort which responds to the problems of health professionals supply and distribution in rural and underserved areas of the state.
Since 1984, the Georgia Statewide AHEC Network has represented a growing partnership of health providers, health professions students, educators, state agencies, and communities joined together with a commitment to resolve these problems through educational support to health professionals in the field, both as students and as practitioners.
Continuing Education - provides professional development and life-long learning for health care professionals including Grand Rounds, one-day and multi-day live conferences, hands-on workshops, jointly sponsored activities, correspondence courses and web-based offerings
Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D. Library - The Greenblatt Library provides mission critical support of teaching, research and clinical care for the MCG community. With its unique role as the public health sciences library of Georgia, it also serves as a regional resource library for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.
The Greenblatt Library uses advanced technology to provide access to an ever-increasing virtual library of online journals, databases and other resources in addition to preserving the institution's printed heritage. With service as its hallmark, the Library offers innovative technologies, educational programs and customized services on site 98 hours per week and through the web on a 24/7 basis.
Center for Patient & Family Centered Care - MCG is leading the nation in patient- and family-centered care. By encouraging patients and families to become an integral part of the care team, we are improving the way health care is delivered. It's an important new philosophy in medicine and one we are proud to be leading.
Visual and Instructional Design - (VID) supports faculty by integrating the art and science of teaching and research. VID offers professional graphic art services, video productions, scantron testing services, photography, and professional research and instructional support.
The Vice President & Associate Provost has responsibility for the following:
- Advisory to the Provost for strategic oversight and management of academic programs
- Responsibility for ensuring and optimizing instructional effectiveness for academic programs requisite for accountability to external agencies and as measured against defined benchmarks
- Promote continual quality enhancement to the institution’s academic programs and the units that support the academic mission
- Facilitate the academic program review and assessment process while ensuring an environment of continual quality improvement
- Serve as the institutional SACS accreditation liaison
- Provide leadership and generate growth for the educational and academic support efforts of AHEC, Continuing Education, Center for Patient and Family Centered Care, Library and VID.
- Provide administrative oversight and guidance to the academic program revision process and development of agreements with external agencies (MOU’s)
- Provide administrative leadership to the academic program development process
- Oversee faculty career development processes, including promotion, tenure, and post tenure review
- Oversee recruitment and selection of the institution’s nominees for the University System of Georgia Award opportunities
- Provide oversight to the retention, progression, and graduation (RPG) initiative
The Vice President & Associate Provost serves on the following committees and boards:
- Academic Council
- AHEC Steering Board
- Dean's Council
- President's Cabinet
- LCME
- University Assessment
