Office of Academic Affairs

The Office of Academic Affairs is charged with ensuring that the College has high-quality faculty and a strong liberal arts curriculum that prepares students for life-long learning, rewarding careers, and interesting lives.

 Responsibilities:

Faculty

• Personnel records office-maintain personnel files for all faculty members
• Hire in consultation with departments and department chairs
• Professional Development: provide financial support for professional meetings; professional memberships; grants; endowed chairs and awards
• Evaluations: teaching, scholarship, and service
• Faculty office assignments, office hours, and collect course syllabi (which get filed in the Library)

Curriculum (in consultation with faculty)

• Oversee academic instruction
• Work with Faculty Council on what will be taught and on evaluating the curriculum

Students

• Liaison to programs relating to the first-year experience
• Probation and dismissal in conjunction with Academic Standards Committee
• Academic misconduct (plagiarism, cheating, forgery of signatures, etc.)
• Irresolvable conflicts with faculty members
• Diversifying the campus in terms of students and programming

Fall and Spring

• Dean's List (preparation)
• Dean's Certificates (distribution)

Individuals & Programs Reporting to Academic Affairs:

U.S. Pluralism Programs
Harry Matthews, Associate Dean and Director

Offers resources to students, faculty,and staff in planning instruction and events that explore cultural and racial diversity in the U.S.

Career Development & Education
Katrina A. Zalatan, Dean of Experiential & Integrative Learning

Provides all phases of undergraduate career counseling, internships, and other experiential education options. The office also offers direction and support for students seeking full-time employment or graduate school.

Faculty
(via Department Chairs)

Center for Interdependence
Jenifer Chambers, Director of International Programs and Center for Interdependence

The Interdependence Initiative: Preparing students for an increasingly diverse world through curriculum/programs and through recruiting/retaining minority and international students

• Off-Campus Study
• International Student Advisor

The Stevens-German Library
Beth Orgeron, College Librarian & Director of Information Resources

As well as housing normal Library information, it also is the home for the, Curriculum Technology Center, which provides staff and special equipment (authoring stations, CD burners, etc.) for faculty and staff use. The Library also is the central location for campus Audio Visual needs.

The Yager Museum of Art & Culture
Donna Anderson,  Coordinator, Yager Museum of Art & Culture

Houses the following:

• Yager Collection; Fine Arts Collection; regular exhibitions
• Foreman Gallery in Anderson Center for the Arts (contemporary art, student art exhibits).

Academic Affairs addresses academic issues with the office listed below:

Office of Advising & Registration
Matthew Sanford, Director & Registrar

• Registrar
  • Scheduling of courses
  • Repository of students' transcripts and all academic records
• Academic counseling/advising
• Declaration and change of advisor/major
• Academic study lab
• Student academic workshops
• Tutoring
• Early-warning evaluations