Resource Directory - Academic Affairs Division

This area of resources focuses on the offices, programs, and services which comprise the academic affairs division. This section also includes resources documents, reports, and publications which articulate the perspective of the mission of the division.

Administrative Units:

Academic Services and Registrar: The Office of Academic Services (OAS) offers a variety of services empowering students for academic success. We serve as a bridge over obstacles, such as physical challenges, unique learning styles, and cultural adjustments that hinder the learning process.
Centers & Institutes: The Calvin College Centers and Institutes were created to enrich the programs of the college by contributing to the distinctive nature of Calvin College and ensuring the mission and strategic plan of the college by addressing perceived needs and strategic opportunities.
Community Engagement: Identifying strategic priorities, facilitating collaboration between college and community, challenging academic departments and encouraging faculty to use their teaching and research in focused ways to serve a larger community are significant pieces of the work being done by the Office of Community Engagement.
Grants & Foundation Relations: The Office of Grants and Foundation Relations helps members of the Calvin College community secure external funding from foundations, corporations, governmental agencies, and individuals.
Multicultural Affairs: The Office of Multicultural Affairs is a part of a broad effort at Calvin College to enhance cultural understanding, diversity of student body and faculty members, and the quality of education throughout the college.
Research and Scholarship: The Office of Research and Scholarship exists to support faculty in their dual roles as teachers and scholars.
Organizational Chart

Documents and Publications:

Academic Bulletin: The Academic Bulletin is a weekly newsletter from the Provost’s Office of Calvin College.
College Catalog: The Calvin College Catalog is published every academic year.
Expanded Statement of Mission: "To promote and follow a transforming vision, one that grants new direction, is not to forsake the heritage that has sustained us. Rather, it is to embrace that tradition, to seek courage and sustenance from it, as we look for new ways to effect our calling as a comprehensive liberal arts college in the Reformed tradition of historic Christianity."
Faculty Handbook: The handbook serves the members of the teaching faculty in a number of ways. Its most immediate function is to provide them with information which will facilitate their work as teachers and scholars and which will set forth their personal and professional expectations and obligations as members of the Calvin teaching faculty.
From Every Nation (FEN): The Revised Comprehensive Plan for Racial Justice, Reconciliation, and Cross-Cultural Engagement at Calvin College
Papers and Presentations: This is a collection of academic papers and presentations delivered by the Provost and other current or recent members of the Academic Affairs Division.