Mission

Mission

The Academic Projects & Space Management (APSM) leads the acquisition, implementation, maintenance, and support for tools and platforms and coordinates with other university units. This mission requires cooperation and coordination between a variety of administrative, academic, and technology units. We enable the university and its varied academic communities to realize their potential in teaching, learning, and research through the innovative design and meaningful integration of technology to meet broad and specialized goals and provide support, consulting, and services that foster innovation.

Goals

APSM actively partners with faculty, staff, and students to imagine ways to meet academic goals.

  • Consult with faculty regarding the use of technologies to solve pedagogical challenges and achieve learning outcomes.
  • Explore current and emerging technology tools and consider how PVAMU might use them to achieve or enhance its objectives.
  • Provide execute-level technology guidance and direction for Academic Affairs through collaboration with the Provost, councils, committees, colleges, and departments; represent Academic Affairs on committees and governance councils.

  • Serve as a liaison between Academic Affairs, colleges, and departments to evaluate the hardware and software environment to eliminate duplicate expenditures; identify needs, process gaps; and assist with developing guidelines and processes; manage technology expenses within budget while seeking maximum value.
  • Monitor the trends of your space usage and make adjustments that would benefit the overall process and its efficiency while planning for mid and long-term growth.
  • Monitor the trends of your space usage and make adjustments that would benefit the overall process and its efficiency while planning for mid and long-term growth.
  • To align space assignments to meet the needs of the University’s goals.
  • To co-locate academic units to achieve intellectual synergies and collaboration.
  • To keep academic programs and functions on the core of campus.

  • Enhance communication between space occupants and management.
  • Provide execute-level technology guidance and direction for Academic Affairs through collaboration with the Provost, councils, committees, colleges, and departments; represent Academic Affairs on committees and governance councils.
  • To lead and manage significant university projects under Academic Affairs, including selection, implementation, maintenance, processes, and documentation, especially related to upgrades in technology and furniture and faculty, staff, and lab computer software replacements.
  • To utilize all University space more fully and effectively.
  • To move non-academic units and functions to the periphery of campus.
  • To move those units which are dispersed across campus to contiguous spaces.

“WITHOUT GOALS AND PLANS TO REACH THEM, YOU ARE LIKE A SHIP THAT HAS SET SAIL WITH NO DESTINATION.” — FITZHUGH DODSON

And that’s why we are always planning. Learn more about our understanding and attitude towards planning.