About

Creating an environment where you can flourish

The Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs (VPFAA) helps you achieve professional excellence, focusing on the academic career of each faculty member on the Bloomington campus.

We provide resources for all ranks of faculty—ranging from lecturers to distinguished professors—in all stages of your career. We can help you navigate the challenges and special opportunities of academic life—whether you are new to IU, facing tenure or promotion, seeking new direction mid-career, or imagining retirement after decades of service.

Helping you with a wide range of needs

Our work is simultaneously on the big stage and intimately personal. We celebrate noteworthy academic achievements with gala ceremonies and visible recognition, but also meet privately with faculty who have questions about a medical leave or grievances against a colleague or administrator.

We host workshops to get faculty ready for promotion and tenure, or to nurture leadership skills among academic administrators. But we also frequently meet one-on-one with faculty who are preparing dossiers for a reappointment review.

Building a world-class university, together

We are dedicated to developing a cultural and institutional context in which you can plan your academic career in a predictable and confident way.

Our office keeps academic policies that define the rights and responsibilities of all academic appointees. Those policies defend a longstanding system of shared governance in which elected faculty legislators and members of the administration work together to serve the best interests of the institution.

We work hard to create and sustain a campus that is diverse, tolerant, family-friendly, sustainable, and full of occasions and events to nourish the mind and soul.