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The 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 include:

Middle States Accreditation

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

Teaching & Learning Resources

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

Academic Affairs Forms

Honors & Recognitions

Dean's List
Faculty Awards
Honor Society

Programs and Services Reporting to Academic Affairs

Academic Advising
Global Education
Faculty Administrative Support
Student Success Center
The Stevens-German Library
Yager Museum of Art and Culture
Office of the Registrar

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

Jennifer Dearden, DMA

Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost
[email protected]
607-431-4400

Cherilyn Lacy

Professor of History & Assistant Provost
[email protected]
607-431-4885

Amy Forster Rothbart

Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate in Academic Affairs
[email protected]

Heather Bailey P’28 and P’29

Executive Assistant and Budget Manager for the VPAA/Provost
[email protected]
607-431-4162

Geneen Bolton

Academic Affairs Liaison and Academic Advising Coordinator to the School of Nursing
[email protected]
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 - 2026-2027

12:20-1:15 p.m.

Meetings are held in Shineman Celebration Room.

September 14
October 5
November 2
November 30
February 15
March 8
April 5
May 3

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
[email protected]