MISSION OF AIS
The Association for Integrative Studies is an interdisciplinary professional organization founded in 1979 to promote the interchange of ideas among scholars and administrators in all of the arts and sciences on intellectual and organizational issues related to furthering integrative studies. Incorporated as a non-profit educational association in the State of Ohio, it has an international membership.
The Association for Integrative Studies serves as an organized voice and a national source of information on integrative and interdisciplinary approaches to the discovery, transmission and application of knowledge.
The Association strives to:- Articulate the nature of integrative studies and to document their importance
for higher education and for society.
- Establish standards of excellence for the conduct of integrative studies
in both teaching and research.
- Maintain a communication network for the exchange of scholarly and pedagogical
information on integrative study among faculty and administrators in undergraduate
and graduate education in the arts and science and the professions.
- Enhance research and teaching in integrative studies by promoting the
development of interdisciplinary theory, methodology and curricular design.
- Facilitate the success of interdisciplinary endeavors by collecting
and sharing information on supportive personnel policies, programmatic
structures, and administrative methods.
- Serve as an organized voice and a source of information on integrative
and interdisciplinary approaches to the discovery, transmission, and application
of knowledge.
- Become a broad-based professional home for reflective interdisciplinarians.