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:

Office of Advising and 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

Career Development & Education
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.

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

Faculty
(via Department Chairs)
Download directory listing of Faculty Chair, Division Chairs, Department Chairs, Non-Departmental Studies Coordinators (pdf document).

Information Technology
Davis Conley, Executive Director
Deb Hilts, Associate Director

• Information Systems Services (Datatel, WebAdvisor, Informer)
• Copy Center (photocopying) and Mail Services (intra-campus, USPS, UPS)
• Technology Resource Center & TechStore (HelpDesk, hardware & software support)
• Telecommunications (telephone, cable TV, data network)
• Central Systems (Blackboard, WickIT, Ingeniux, Calendar, E-Mail, file server, computer labs)

Pine Lake Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Studies
Dr. Brian Hagenbuch, Director

The Pine Lake Institute and Environmental Campus promote sustainability education, research, and outreach in a setting that reflects environmental stewardship and integrates lessons and experiences among all at Hartwick College and in the regional community.

• Pine Lake Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Studies
• Pine Lake Environmental Campus
• Center for Sustainable Living
• Pine Lake Summer Institute
• Academic Theme

The Stevens-German Library
David Heyduk, Interim Director of Library and Information Resources

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.

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).