When questions arise, look here for some ideas on where to start.
Ask Your Chair
- Teaching schedules
- Classroom assignments
- Office assignment
- Departmental policies on waitlists, prerequisites, placement tests, etc.
- Expectations regarding office hours, department meetings
Ask the Office of Student Success Services (OS3)
- Speaking to your class about academic coaching or tutoring
- Any student you have concerns about, e.g. not attending or engaging, wellness issues, anything affecting their success
Ask the Office of Accessibility Services (OAS)
- Students requesting an accommodation
- An approved accommodation that you believe would alter the learning goals of your class
- If you’re not sure how to facilitate an accommodation or what an accommodation is
Ask Human Resources (HR)
- Initial payroll paperwork
- Benefits (for tenure-track and full-time visitors)
- Initiating campus email access
Ask the Center for Inclusive Teaching and Learning (CITL)
- Teaching workshops
- Individual consultations
- Learning communities for faculty
- Online teaching resources
Ask the Library
- Access to databases, books, and other resources
- Information literacy instruction from subject librarians
- Research librarian support for students and faculty
- Course reserves
- College archives
- Copyright
- And more!
Ask the Director of Curriculum
- CORE 101 assignments and training
- Questions about low enrollments/class cancellations
- Inquiries courses
- Student-designed majors
- Academic advising (advising training for tenure-track faculty in their 2nd year)
Ask an Associate Dean
- New Faculty Orientation
- New Faculty Seminar and Mentoring
- Resources to support scholarship and creative work
Ask the Associate VP for Academic Affairs
- Evaluation and promotion advising
- Academic misconduct issues
- Faculty Lecture Series
- Anything on this site that refers to the “Associate Dean of Faculty”
Ask the Office of Information Technology (OIT)
- Blackboard training
- Password issues
- Repair requests
- (Note that most of the above can be done online by putting in a “ticket” through their website)