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The Office of Academic Affairs

The Office of Academic Affairs is charged with ensuring that 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 include:

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; teaching and learning; assessment
  • Evaluations: teaching, scholarship, and service
  • Faculty office assignments, office hours, and collect course syllabi

Academic Policies

Curriculum (in consultation with faculty)

  • Oversee academic instruction
  • Work with Faculty Council on what will be taught and on evaluating the curriculum
  • Overall assessment of student learning and student success

Academic & Faculty Committees

Students

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

Academic Advising

Academic Policies

Registrar Petition Forms

Honors & Recognitions

Dean's List
Faculty Awards

Programs and Services Reporting to Academic Affairs

Academic Advising
Global Education
Faculty Administrative Support
The Pine Lake Institute
The Stevens-German Library
Yager Museum of Art and Culture
Office of the Registrar
Institutional Research and Effectiveness

Class Cancellations

Updated class cancellation information is received in the Office of Academic Affairs. This section will be updated only when classes are cancelled. If there are any classes cancelled today, you will see them listed below.

 

 

Meet the Academic Affairs Staff

Laurel Bongiorno, Ph.D.

Vice President for Academic Affairs & Dean of Faculty
607-431-4401

Aaron R. Tolbert, Ph.D.

Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs
tolberta@hartwick.edu
607-431-4106

Cherilyn Lacy

Professor of History & Assistant Dean of Faculty
lacyc@hartwick.edu
607-431-4882

Mary Allen

Professor of Biology
allenm1@hartwick.edu
607-431-4743

Amy Forster Rothbart

Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of the First-Year Experience
forsterrotha@hartwick.edu

Carla Kinser

Executive Assistant to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
kinserc@hartwick.edu
607-431-4400

Heather Babbitt

Administrative Assistant for Academic Affairs
babbitth@hartwick.edu

Heather Conroe

Administrative Assistant for Academic Affairs
conroeh@hartwick.edu
COURSE SYLLABI

Course syllabi are available, by semester, on the Hartwick D2L site. Faculty, staff, and students with a current D2L account can access the individual files.

D2L
Institutional Review Board

Human subject research policy, reviews, and process for proposals.

IRB

Faculty Meetings

Mondays from 12:15 – 1:15 p.m., via Zoom

September 12

September 19

October 3

November 7

November 28

Faculty Lecture Series
Institutional Grants

OFFICE OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

Bresee Hall Room 205

Monday to Friday
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

607-431-4400
acadaff@hartwick.edu