The OVPAA is committed to:
- Providing a nurturing and enabling teaching and learning environment;
- Designing programs that promote interdisciplinarity, collaboration and lifelong learning;
- Engaging with local and international partners and networks;
- Instilling the value of public service among the faculty and UP students as future leaders in different branches of knowledge;
- Keeping abreast with changes in the higher education landscape; and
- Developing, adopting and continuously improving procedures and innovative processes that embody professionalism, efficiency, consistency and care for its internal and external publics.