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 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
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
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 (petition forms are located here.)
- 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)
Programs and Services Reporting to Academic Affairs include:
Location:
Office of Academic Affairs
Bresee Hall Room 205
Hours:
Monday to Friday
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Office of Academic Affairs Staff
