Initiatives
The Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs oversees many important initiatives on campus, some of which are listed below:
Academic Assessment
The university’s academic assessment activities are focused on promoting and sustaining the culture of continuous improvements through the purposeful alignment of learning objectives and their criteria for evaluating success. The Academic Assessment & Policy Committee supports these efforts.
Common Read
The Common Read Project is faculty-led, in collaboration with academic and student affairs. The charge of the committee is to select a book that inspires intellectual curiosity, prepares students for the challenging reading that is part of a university education, and contributes to the university as a community of ideas, inquiry, and discussion. The committee invites the author to campus for a major presentation and other discussions.
Critical Issues in Education
The Critical Issues in Education Conference is a highly anticipated annual event that convenes leading experts, educators, policymakers, and community members in Flint to debate and discuss the pressing issues of our times. Since its inception in 1977, the University of Michigan-Flint has had the distinct honor of hosting this prestigious gathering on our campus. This conference serves as a vibrant forum for exchanging innovative ideas, sharing groundbreaking research, and fostering collaborations that aim to transform education at all levels. Each year, the event features a dynamic lineup of keynote speakers, panel discussions, workshops, and networking opportunities, making it a cornerstone of our commitment to educational excellence and societal advancement.
General Education Program
The General Education Program at the University of Michigan-Flint fulfills an important academic role in the student’s total educational experience. The program is designed to provide training in reasoning and critical thinking, and to introduce the fundamental disciplines through which people seek to understand themselves, their surroundings, and cultures different from their own. In accordance with the university’s mission, the program aims to educate all students in an environment that emphasizes literacy, critical thinking, and humanistic and scientific inquiry. Through the program, students hone the skills employers want and informed citizens need. The Director for General Education and the University Curriculum Committee supports the efforts of the General Education Program.
UM-Flint Chapter of Michigan ACE Women’s Network
The Michigan ACE Women’s Network is committed to identifying, developing the leadership of, advancing, and supporting the retention of women in higher education throughout the state. The MI ACE Women’s Network strives to support initiatives that will provide better experiences of, in particular, women employed in faculty, staff, and administrative roles at Michigan’s colleges and universities.
All activities of the UM-Flint Chapter of MI ACE programming and events are open to all who support this mission, regardless of gender, identity or position.
The Michigan ACE Network is open to all public and private, two-year and four-year institutions in the state and requires institutional membership for participation in Network activities.