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Department Head and Director Handbook
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- MS Word format
- PDF format (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Other Useful Resources
Program
- Scheduling courses and building a schedule
- Due dates for schedules
- Sources of data for course planning
- Developing a two-year rotation
- Scheduling courses for the core
- Scheduling graduate courses
- Scheduling Off Campus courses
- Scheduling WebCT courses
- Scheduling courses with other departments and programs
- Addressing faculty preferences
- Assigning classrooms
- Forms for scheduling
- Ordering texts
- Course descriptions
Monitoring
- Monitoring class enrollment
- Canceling and adding classes
- Moving students into and out of classes
- Overriding students into classes
The Start of Classes
- Drop/add forms
- Late registration appeals
- Withdrawal forms
- The first week of class
- Proofrolls
- In-progress and final grade reports
- Authorization forms for field trips
Student
- Adding new majors and graduate students
- Advising students
- Assigning advisers to advisees
- Advising process
- Course substitutions and waivers
- GLOBE, eCore, GSAMS telecourses, USG Independent Study
- Recruitment and retention of students
- Homepages and brochures
- Orientation and visitation sessions
- Undergraduate Research Symposium
Program Review and Assessment
- Learning the departmental assessment plan
- Converting assessment data into program change
- Proposing/deleting programs and tracks
Maintaining Equipment and Facilities
Personnel Management
- Recruitment of faculty
- Development of faculty
- Evaluation of faculty
- Cover sheets for promotion and tenure
- Curriculum vitae for promotion and tenure
- Conflict management
- Departmental committees
- Assignment of office
- Technology
- Summer Terms
- Management of Heads and Directors
- Additional assignments
Budget
- Budget amendments
- Personal services
- Summer salaries
- Salaries of part-time faculty
- Extra compensation
- Outside consulting activities
- Student assistants
- Travel
- Pre-paid registration
- Hotel/motel exemption forms
- Travel expense statements
- Per diem form
- Operating supplies
- Purchasing procedures
- Library allocation
- VSU Foundation accounts
- Grants and Contracts