The Vice President for Instruction and Enrollment Management & 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 Office 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 Office 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 Office 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 Office also has other duties as assigned by the Provost.