OFFICE OF THE ACADEMIC AFFAIRS VICE PRESIDENT

Office Mission

TheĀ Office of the Academic Affairs Vice President (AAVP) is an office under the Executive Cabinet tasked with providing students with academic support in various types of programming, like meeting with the Academic Senate, bridging the gap between professors and students, inviting educational speakers, spreading awareness of campus resources, highlighting higher education, and more. As an office, we hope to genuinely enrich the academic experience and support the career choices of undergraduate students at UCI.

Under Article VII, Section 2.e. of the ASUCI Constitution, the Academic Affairs Vice President:

  1. Strives to cultivate student leadership by raising awareness about the diverse and dynamic academic opportunities on campus, providing avenues of learning outside the classroom, and empowering students to be advocates of the academic life here at UC Irvine ;
  2. Represents the Associated Students on those matters relating to the educational quality at UCI;
  3. Serves as the ASUCI representative to the Academic Senate;
  4. Creates and oversees a commission of Academic Senate representatives, subject to appointment and removal of representatives by the Joint Committee on Student Representatives;
  5. Consults with the Academic Senate officers regarding the appointment of student representatives to the Academic Senate Committees; and
  6. Develops and maintains ASUCI programs relating to the academic enrichment for the undergraduate student body.

Summer Phan (she/her)
2025-2026 Academic Affairs Vice President
academicvp@asuci.uci.edu

The AAVP section of the 2025-2026 Annual Executive Adjunct was ratified on [DATE] (Fall Week []) through Resolution [].


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2025-2026 STRUCTURE

ASUCI Executive Officers have broad authority to create departments to assist with the execution of their powers, authorities, and obligations, subject to approval by the ASUCI Senate. For the 2025-2026 academic year, the Office of the Academic Affairs Vice President is comprised of three (3) departments.

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