The Office of Academic Affairs serves students, faculty and external stakeholders through support of outstanding health science education programs at the undergraduate and graduate level. The division achieves its mission within the philosophical context of student-centered services, strong advocacy for faculty resource requirements, promotion of best-practices in teaching and focus on student learning and measurement of performance outcomes.

Office of Academic Affairs Staff Dr. Scot Foster Provost sfoster@samuelmerritt.edu [1] Dr. Penny Bamford Interim Academic Vice President pbamford@samuelmerritt.edu [2] Jamie Hirota Assistant to the Academic Vice President jhirota@samuelmerritt.edu [3] Amy Anderson Executive Administrative Assistant, Academic Affairs aanderson@samuelmerritt.edu [4]

Contact Information 450 30th Street, Suite 2718 Oakland, California 94609 Phone: 510.869.6744 Fax: 510.654.9327