About Academic Affairs
The Division of Academic Affairs at the University of the District of Columbia is led by the Office of the Chief Academic Officer (OCAO). The OCAO is the academic heart of the university with responsibility for ensuring the relevance and rigor of the university’s academic offerings. It shepherds the academic success outcomes for the university’s students, faculty, staff and community partners. The OCAO prioritizes providing students with the most comprehensive academic experience that it can make available and has been intentional in partnering with the Division of Student Development and Success to create a wholistic environment for student achievement. Specifically, the OCAO is charged with providing institutional leadership in all aspects of the academic experience, including the activities of the classroom, laboratory, studio, clinic, and field as well as those extramural opportunities that bridge to degree and certificate programs.
The OCAO ensures that the university’s students become completers and graduates and that those completers and graduates exit the institution with competitive skillsets that bridge them seamlessly to careers and/or next levels of education. Faculty members are foundational to the successes of the university’s students, and the OCAO is committed to equipping the university’s faculty members with the skills and resources needed to be transformative agents of change in the academic lives of students. Support for faculty members also targets their research and service and, consequently, their contributions to their personal and professional communities.
