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Chapter I Contents: [ I.1 The L&S Mission ] [ I.2 L&S Academic Planning Council ] [ I.3 L&S Curriculum Committee ] [ I.4 L&S Faculty Senate ] [ I.5 L&S Administrative Structure ] [ I.6 Academic Associate Deans ] [ I.10 Projected Dates & Deadlines ] [ I.11 Committees ] [ I.12 Preferential Balloting ] [ I.13 Quorum and Parliamentary Procedure ] [ I.14 Resources for Dept. Chairs ] [ I.15 Open Meetings ] [ I.16 Public Records ] [ I.17 Honorary Degrees ] [ I.18 University & College Policy Documents ] [ I.20 Employee Political Activities ] [ I.21  Statement on Restructuring, Creation, or Discontinuance ]

1.5 ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE

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In this and the following sections, we offer several different ways of looking at the administrative structure of the College. The two main organizational units are L&S Administration (dealing primarily with personnel, budget, curriculum, academic planning, and facilities) and L&S Student Academic Affairs (dealing primarily with undergraduate student advising, administration of College degree requirements, and programs for minority and disadvantaged students).

Several of the College's deans comprise Dean Sandefur's Senior Staff. They are:

  • Academic Divisions -
    • Maria Cancian (Social Sciences)
    • Magdalena Hauner (Humanities)
    • Eric Wilcots (Natural Sciences)
  • Academic Planning - Elaine M. Klein
  • Administration (Budget, Planning and Finance) - Anne Gunther
  • Research - Susan Ellis Weismer
  • Student Academic Affairs - Gery Essenmacher
  • Undergraduate Education and Academic Administration - Nancy Westphal-Johnson

Click here to view or download an organizational chart in .pdf format.  

Staff Meetings

Dean's staff meetings are held on Monday mornings during the academic year. The purpose of these meetings is to discuss broad policy and planning issues and to consider faculty recruitment and appointment requests. Short-term staffing and many other resource allocation requests are delegated to the appropriate associate dean (see Section on "Paper and Request Flow"). Deadlines are established for recurring items, such as short-term staffing requests; these are generally communicated to departments via e-mail. Non-recurring requests may be submitted at any time.

Reviewed August 11, 2010 by emk.

 

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