The Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost serves as the College's director of grants and faculty endowments. The Office of the VPAA seeks to provide institutional support by identifying and securing external funding. The VPAA works closely with Development and the Business Office to organize and direct the College’s grants and endowment programs for the promotion of a campus-wide culture that fosters efficient and effective grant-seeking as a component of effective philanthropy and as a way to support the generation of new knowledge, scholarly inquiry, and creative activity.