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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• The UMass China Institute recently launched its new website!
  

*The Office of Academic Affairs, Student Affairs and International Relations (AASAIR)

The Office of Academic Affairs, Student Affairs and International Relations, provides system-wide oversight and coordination to ensure the quality of the University's students, faculty and programs. Academic assessment and accountability are core functions of our team.

This website provides a full staff directory, as well as information about the individual branches of our office and how collectively we strive to further the mission of the University of Massachusetts. The Office stresses:

Collaboration and cooperation with Faculty, Provosts, Librarians, Institutional Research Officers, Vice Chancellors for Student Affairs, Admissions Directors, and Financial Aid Directors; with Research Vice Provosts, and the International Relations Advisory Council; with other System Vice Presidential areas including UMass Online; and with the K-12 enterprise, in order better to:

• Promote the highest quality of academic and student programs, research, and outreach and the most effective use of resources;
• Review and evaluate proposed and existing programs to maintain the highest quality, ensure programmatic integrity, and avoid unnecessary duplication;
• Support intercampus initiatives that leverage the talents and resources of the University for greatest quality, impact, visibility, and effectiveness;
• Enhance recruitment of prepared students from all backgrounds by emphasizing the idea that enrollment management is everyone's responsibility;
• Produce more globally competent graduates with the critical tools for recognizing cultural values other than their own; for viewing the world from a variety of perspectives; and for living and working in a rapidly changing world;
• Encourage innovative use of new technologies for research, teaching and service throughout the University;
• Promote more faculty global research by minimizing or removing impediments to international scholarship and research;
• Represent the interests of the University and serve as a point of engagement for external agencies and organizations (e.g. the Department of Higher Education);
• Advise the Committee on Academic and Student Affairs, the Board of Trustees, the President, and the campuses on the formulation, interpretation, and implementation of policies related to faculty and students, research, academic programs, and outreach.