Academic leadership

The associate dean for academic affairs is responsible for scheduling courses, hiring, overseeing, and evaluating lecturers in all areas other than NSME, to include assigning peer evaluations of teaching, overseeing student evaluations of teaching, and overseeing learning‐assistance programming. The position is also responsible for coordinating academic misconduct hearings, participating in investigations related to grade grievances and complaints against faculty, serving as acting dean/director when the dean/director is on leave, assisting the dean/director in handling personnel matters and in setting the annual budget. In setting the course schedule, the associate dean for academic affairs works with the associate dean for NSME and area coordinators as applicable but retains final oversight. The associate dean for academic affairs also directly supervises the director of advising, the director of the Student Academic Success Center, and the director of retention and student success initiatives. Other duties include liaison work with offices at the Columbus campus, membership on university-level committees, and may include teaching or other additional responsibilities as assigned by the dean/director.

The associate dean for NSME is responsible for scheduling courses, hiring, overseeing, and evaluating lecturers in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering, to include assigning peer evaluations of teaching, overseeing student evaluations of teaching, and overseeing learning‐assistance programming. The dean/director will monitor the evaluations of both the associate dean for academic affairs and the associate dean for NSME to encourage consistency in faculty evaluations. The associate dean for NSME also directly supervises associated laboratory personnel and liaises between the NSME faculty and the Facilities office and the campus’ academic administration in maintaining NSME teaching and research equipment. Duties may include teaching and/or other duties as assigned by the dean/director.

The associate dean for faculty affairs approves faculty procurement requisitions and travel requests and coordinates faculty research, to include assisting with IRB requests. Other duties include working with other administrators to coordinate faculty recruitment, promotion and tenure policies and processes, and faculty resources. The position also organizes teaching and professional development workshops; develops and runs promotion and tenure workshops; provides an annual orientation for the promotion and tenure committee; collaborates with the chair of the faculty wellbeing committee on the orientation of new faculty; coordinates peer review of teaching for tenure-track and C/T/PP faculty; and organizes faculty events. Duties may occasionally include teaching and other duties as assigned by the dean/director.

The associate dean for outreach and engagement is responsible for publicizing and managing high-impact practices including service learning, education abroad, honors, the STEP program, the LeFevre Fellows program, and student research. Duties for the position include building and sustaining partnerships with community organizations; coordinating student research grants and select research events; supervising the STEP program coordinator, the director of the Newark Earthworks Center, and the SciDome coordinator; liaising with offices at the Columbus campus, serving on university-level committees, and additional responsibilities as assigned by the dean/director. Duties may occasionally include teaching and other duties as assigned by the dean/director.

The chief of staff is a cost-shared position that also serves as vice president and chief of staff for COTC. This chief of staff serves as principal advisor to the dean/director; assists with planning, executing and advancing a wide range of complex and sensitive executive and administrative duties, special projects, and initiatives, including strategic planning; liaisons with campus leaders; and works closely with the senior leadership teams to monitor, advise, and communicate the implementation of operational and strategic agendas.