{"id":3135,"date":"2025-03-17T09:44:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/academic-affairs\/?page_id=3135"},"modified":"2025-12-22T13:52:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:52:01","slug":"office-of-access-and-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/academic-affairs\/office-of-access-and-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Office of Access and Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\n<div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-8\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<p>The Office for Access and Opportunity, housed within the Office of Academic Affairs, provides leadership through thoughtful initiatives that foster a climate of increased access and opportunity in academic departments, schools, and colleges. <\/p>\n<p>Led by the Assistant Provost for Access and Opportunity, the Office provides engages with faculty, students, and the community to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Foster a climate to increase access and opportunity in the academic departments, schools, and colleges.\n<\/li><li> Provide academic support for access &amp; opportunity initiatives.\n<\/li><li> Promote curriculum development to provide educational opportunities and the ability of students to take advantage of them.\n<\/li><li> Recommend and create long and short-term research goals for broadening educational opportunities.\n<\/li><li> Organize events around broadening access &amp; educational opportunities.\n<\/li><li> Assist faculty on curriculum development and instructional practices that support accessibility &amp; opportunity learning environment.\n<\/li><li> Provide strategic leadership for attracting, recruiting, and employing faculty; retaining, developing, and promoting access &amp; opportunity for faculty; and supporting innovative scholarship, teaching and service.\n<\/li><li> Develop and manage a marketing and communications strategy, overseeing the production and maintenance of a website and newsletter.\n<\/li><li> Collaborate with and support institutional leadership, academic deans, departments, unit heads, and advisory committees with access and opportunity work.\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-4\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/academic-affairs\/files\/Fain.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Cicero Fain\"\/><br \/>\n<strong>Dr. Cicero Fain, III<\/strong><br \/>\nAssistant Provost for Access and Opportunity\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3135","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3363,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3135\/revisions\/3363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/academic-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}